Insult to the soldiers involved

Rating: 2/10 (1 February 2020)

Dunkirk was a vauge glossary of what happened. In reality 338,226 men were evacuated across the channel in 800 vessels over 8 days. The reason? 7 German divisions had cornered a large British portion of the British army including parts of the French and Belgian Armies. The Germans had haulted where an army of 40,000 French soldiers were positioned to try and hault the advance. The Germans decided to use the Luftwaffe to attack the trapped soldiers.
The Film.
I gave it 2 stars due to it being visually good, however it fails in many other ways.
No character building - I have no idea of any of the characters names.
No back story - It sets the scene with some text at the start?! At no point you see how formidable the German army is, how much danger they are in. You don't see the French desperately trying to hold the line while the British are retreating to the coast. There is nothing explaining how they have ended up in this situation, so all you get is some soldiers hanging around on a beach with no sense of urgency.
Numbers are way to low - You only see at most about 200 men in any shot. There were 380,000! You only see one pleasure boat for most of the film, then suddenly there are about 10 appearing from somewhere but still not the 800 that should have been there.
Random storyline and suicidal characters -
A group of soldiers go into a trawler waiting for the tide to come in. Someone starts target practice on the hull while they're inside. They then try and plug the holes with their hands while more holes appear?! Also at one point it's being shot under the waterline?! Again no character building so didn't care much if they sank.
Weird soundtrack
As it says above, just a horrible droning sound probably to make up for the lack of dialogue. The on board spitfire screens deserved the full engine sound it has a soundtrack of its own, adding to the drama and realness. But no, just more droning from random instruments.
Spitfires -
The pilots looked like they were out on a Sunday afternoon spin, no urgency, no sense of danger. The sceenes of the pilots were showing that it was a quiet comfortable place to be, not a loud vibrating, petrol smelling death machine flying at enormous speeds capible of death defying manoeuvres which required a lot of physical strength to pull off.
The ending -
A sptfire runs out of fuel, then glides. Shoots down a German plane while gliding. In the meantime the soldiers have crossed the channel boarded a train and got to Woking. The spitfire is still gliding!!! Some of these shots look like thunderbirds rediculous.
In short, ignore the hype and don't waste your time.