Visually impressive but lacking emotion

Rating: 6/10 (10 November 2019)

I don't know what it is about Christopher Nolan's films but they just never appeal to me. Just like his previous films, 'Dunkirk' is technically great yet completely fails to connect on an emotional level. It's cold-hearted, soulless storytelling and no amount of visual effects can deflect from that.
I know that the purpose of this film is to take a wider, more broad approach to telling the story of what happened in Dunkirk rather than following an individual character/event within the war, but for a film like this to be completely void of emotion is disappointing and it can't have been what Nolan had envisaged.
The acting is good and the visuals are great, but beyond that 'Dunkirk' didn't do much for me at all. It's missing characters and emotion - two things that should be at the core of any war film.