Over-bored

Rating: 4/10 (23 July 2017)

Over-hyped and over-budgeted this emperor's new clothes of a film is expensively but far from seamlessly stitched together. No character development or back story whatsoever so impossible to care about any of the protagonists, no cinematic grandeur and literally not a German to be seen ( probably a clever metaphor which like many of the bombs and bullets in the film went over my head ). Perhaps suffering from it's 12A rating the beach massacre was far too clinical and lacking in realism, explosion after explosion followed by soldiers simply getting up and immediately standing back in the ' sea' queue or playing dead, no one injured, screaming, bloodied or even limping slightly or sucking on a sore finger. The toe-curling shoe-horned incident of the Enid Bilghton caricatured thick kid fatally falling down two steps of a boat ( curiously the one place there was an actual suggestion of blood, but not much ) seems like a clumsy afterthought. At least we can depend on Tom Hardy to single handily knock those Gerry bombers and fighters for six, even with not a drop of fuel in his kite then, land beautifully on the German held beach and, avoiding their towels, get out, blow up his plane and standing rather dangerously close for my liking( of course he is very brave must have known it was safely out of ammo by now ) watch it burn whilst waiting stoically to be taken prisoner, no doubt to fight another day.