Dunkirk (2017)
Rated PG-13
Starring Fionn Whitehead, Damien Bonnard, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh,
Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan
The Story:
Late May 1940, the Allies have been pushed out of Europe and now are desperately bunched up on the beaches of Dunkirk awaiting transportation back to England. Thankfully, Hitler decides to stop the advancement of tanks on their location and this gives the Allies the small window to charter boats (and lots of them!) to cross the channel and save the troops. They hope to get a small fraction out... they end up saving them all.
For those that failed to read up on their history, this is indeed based on the true story of a pivotal moment that saved Europe from completely falling under Hitler's relentless march.
Nolan's three-headed tale bounces between land, sea, and air to show different people trying to escape death or heading straight into it to save lives.
It's a good film, but I didn't find it nearly as great as much of the hype that followed it.
Best war movie ever? That's pretty lofty praise.
I would argue that it wasn't even the best war movie of last year. I'd give that title to yesterday's film that I reviewed, Darkest Hour. They even touch on the Dunkirk evacuation, and I felt in the brief moment of that mission, they almost conveyed it in a better scope than the entirety of this film.
But that's just me, feel free to judge for yourself.
Final Grade: B
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