utterly overrated

Rating: 4/10 (2 August 2017)

I think that all the "micro vs macro" envision of the battle and other explanations on good reviews are bullshit. This is a bad movie full of trickery. The beautiful scenery, music, slow action that pretends to be deep and intimate (sometimes I remember the way better 'Thin Red Line', Terrence Malick, 1998) may fool a lot of viewers. But the reality is this: 1. No story at all. Simply some unlikable characters (except the old civilian captain) wandering around.
2. Very bad setting. Modern buildings around the beach, a modern factory on the background and modern ships equipped with recent technology that they tried to disguise, failing miserably, do not help to get into the movie. 3. No epics. 4. No respect for the facts. A few soldiers making a line, a bunch of small boats and three planes gave a very poor envision of the dimensions of the real Dunkirk battle, in which hundreds of thousands of soldiers and thousands of pieces of equipment (trucks, guns, tanks...) packed out the beaches and the city, in which 40000 french soldiers died or were captured backing up the evacuation of the army fighting a real enemy, not an invisible menace that shot out a few bullets and a few bombs with one or two planes from time to time. 5. The French should be offended. 120000 French soldiers were evacuated also. In this movie, French are treated like garbage. 6. Risible air raids and combats, ended with a plane that violates the law of physics. This movie is not a tribute to the Dunkirk soldiers. It is offensive to the memory of that momentous event in the History.