Superior craft

Rating: 8/10 (30 December 2017)

Not your average war film, there's not much on dialogue, narrative or heroics to be found here but what I did find was a portrayal of endurance, and one hell of a well crafted piece of cinema.
Rarely do I believe in the 'needs to be seen on the big screen' espousal thrown at many big budget efforts, but in this case I really wish I'd seen this on IMAX rather than the small screen.
The only real script note in play here is the intentionally mind-fuddling overlapping time narratives, a bit Inception-like and not, where the 3 main areas of interest: the initial group of soldiers from the beach, Tom Hardy in the skies, and Mark Rylance in his little boat, slowly conflate together in their own little time bubbles, it is I suppose meant to parallel how confused that event really was even if it could be described as a little too on the nose.
The technical aspects here, the scale and practical effects are sheer wonderment. How anyone could find this 'dull' with that pulsating score keeping the tension up whenever it wants (more often than not) kept my attention.
Superior film-making.