Good intro to what happened at Dunkirk, but not that interesting a movie.
We follow a small combat unit trying to escape the Germans. Meanwhile in Britain civilians are complaining about the war. One of the civilians is a coward. We then follow both groups going to Dunkirk. The combat unit barely makes it. The civilians are taking their own boats to help out. The coward of course also goes. It's a basic story.
Unfortunately everything is stretched. There are a lot of scenes that should have been cut. The movie shouldn't have been even close to this long as it really didn't try to do much. There were plenty of times where I grew bored of it. And I watch quite a few WW2 flicks.
The acting is the main negative factor. My god is it bad. That's why the Nolan Dunkirk is better I'd say. At least that one feels real and has good acting. It looks small and fake and this one looks real with thousands of soldiers on the beach. But with the silly acting no scene feels that interesting. You kinda feel like the director just wants to show some small events happening without making it interesting. Which is a shame as I have seen movies from the 40's with much better acting.
The actors are also too old. The combat unit is like 40 years old on average. Usually this happens when you can't find great young actors. But since these actors were terrible here this just makes no sense. Of course the 2 younger guys here are horrible too anyhow. Basically unless you are interested in Dunkirk as an event I think the bad acting will be too much unfortunately. Even though the movie has a lot of good sets and proper boats and ships. It's a fine watch, but it feels like it should have been 30 min shorter or told us more. There are for example a long time where we are just on the beach and the same type of bombings happen again and again. It's just dull too much of the time.
We follow a small combat unit trying to escape the Germans. Meanwhile in Britain civilians are complaining about the war. One of the civilians is a coward. We then follow both groups going to Dunkirk. The combat unit barely makes it. The civilians are taking their own boats to help out. The coward of course also goes. It's a basic story.
Unfortunately everything is stretched. There are a lot of scenes that should have been cut. The movie shouldn't have been even close to this long as it really didn't try to do much. There were plenty of times where I grew bored of it. And I watch quite a few WW2 flicks.
The acting is the main negative factor. My god is it bad. That's why the Nolan Dunkirk is better I'd say. At least that one feels real and has good acting. It looks small and fake and this one looks real with thousands of soldiers on the beach. But with the silly acting no scene feels that interesting. You kinda feel like the director just wants to show some small events happening without making it interesting. Which is a shame as I have seen movies from the 40's with much better acting.
The actors are also too old. The combat unit is like 40 years old on average. Usually this happens when you can't find great young actors. But since these actors were terrible here this just makes no sense. Of course the 2 younger guys here are horrible too anyhow. Basically unless you are interested in Dunkirk as an event I think the bad acting will be too much unfortunately. Even though the movie has a lot of good sets and proper boats and ships. It's a fine watch, but it feels like it should have been 30 min shorter or told us more. There are for example a long time where we are just on the beach and the same type of bombings happen again and again. It's just dull too much of the time.