Heroes and errrr, more heroes

Rating: 5/10 (29 December 2017)

I for once think that Nolan is painfully overrated. True, he did two top notch movies, but everything that came after 'Following' and 'Momento' I found rather average. In fact, I had the distinct feeling that he lost it along the way, so when the rave reviews for Dunkirk came in, I decided to give it another go and see if I had to reevaluate.
First of all, Dunkirk looks amazing, great cinematography, but so do heaps of other films that come out today. Everything else left me slightly deflated. Especially the corny music.
Seriously I thought you would need a slightly more original approach, if you wanted to belt out another WWII Movie in 2017. For some strange reason I was expecting something I hadn't seen a so many times before. I was hoping for the unbearable pain of waiting on the beach. Instead you get you run of the mill war stories complete with the heroic spitfire pilot, the patriotic old guy, the noble admiral, the good hearted rookie. You get the dive bomber attack, you get the running out of fuel problem, you get the 'oh-my-god-I-m-sinking-and-this-hatch-is-stuck' cliffhanger, you get the sinking ships, emergency landings, getting saved in the nick of time. I don't know, as my understanding, the evacuation of Dunkirk was spectacular and unique. Unfortunately, this film isn't.