What a waste of film stock

Rating: 3/10 (27 May 2018)

For those of you who watched the movie but knew nothing about what took place at Dunkirk, you still don't. According to this movie this magnificent heroic event only consisted of a couple dozen boats, a couple of airplanes and a few hundred men. I think this was an insult to the thousands of civilian heroes manning the largest ever civilian flotilla rescue in history by ignoring that little item. I don't know what they were running from because the only Germans (other than a few planes) that we saw were a few at the end that seemed to come out of nowhere, kind of like the bullets being shot at everyone. There was so much drama and action and heroism that could have been shown, it could have made a dozen movies. This is obviously what happens when a young person decides to do a film of an historical event by leaving out the historical patriotism and heroics that made the event what it was at the time. If you are in a certain age range you don't have the ability to feel or be sympathetic to the patriotism and sacrifice that went with the people that lived through world war II. The current war battles that younger people would be exposed to are nothing compared to what soldiers AND civilians lived through during that time. The "young" director/writer is unable to relate to that so decides to forget about it to shoot something he can relate to, survival. I hoped for a whole lot more from this film but was left terribly disappointed at the obvious lack of historical fact and drama that actually took place at Dunkirk in favor of the "single man" viewpoint that a "young" director could comprehend.