Review of Dunkirk (2017) by Murray C — 20 Aug 2017

Tells us nothing about Dunkirk that we didn't already know. Ships were sunk. Planes were shot down. People died. Others were saved by civilians in small boats. It's Atonement without the story, populated by two-dimensional characters about whom we never discover enough to care about them for any reason other than they are brave Englishmen fighting the Nazis.

There is zero character development, just a series of scenes of peril, bathed in bucketloads of jingoistic and simplistic cliches, adding nothing whatsoever to an already overcrowded genre, a massively predictable yawn from start to finish.