A spare, propulsive, ever-intensifying combat thriller, Nolan's history lesson is both a rousing celebration of solidarity
and the tensest beach-set film since Jaws.
Christopher Nolan's first history movie is bold, visceral, and powerful, with many moving sequences -- though some of his film making
choices can be challenging
Dunkirk makes for Christopher Nolan's most intense and nerve-wracking thriller yet, delivering a strikingly terse viewing experience
in the process.
Ok that's the lovies take on things and now for a Joe soap appraisal who sat down with the fam last night to absorb of this assumed masterclass of film making goodness.When we initially tuned in we had to combat the usual theft of a quarter of our telly screen with that ridiculous letter box format but that's a small nuance with many more nuances to follow which to be honest nibbled and chipped away at my overall watch-ability.
Nolan trying desperatly to be a luvvie of the film world by injecting his own characteristics and into this film noir like some mad head Woody Allenesque grafiti artist on crac. One of his most irritating traits as a director was to make a character wether a wounded soldier or the Captain on the pontoon look into the distance long and soul searchingly displaying every emotion humanly possible and then zoom in on their face and back out again.After 40 seconds or so we would all shout out "what the fook is he looking at" It happened loads of times and was more than a mild irritant.
Cinamatography was very good and some of the shots of the spitfire combat were superlative especially the views of Dunkirk as the spitfire prepared to crash land after running out of gas.
They could have made a lot more of the story line and made it slightly more harrowing and more focusable but I appreciate the target audience was for 12 and upwards.I'm not very good with faces faring better with voices.I found myself asking the other half who was that then and she would say that's the man who was just torpedoed.Well who was that then and she would retort thats the original soldier on the beach who has now grabbed another lift after being sunk twice.
The film was all over the place and I found it difficult to keep track.It was the peyton place of war movies and it didnt sit comfy with my expectations being filmed in a trilogy of daft time zones of an hour a day and a week.
It wasnt all doom and gloom and occasionally we were treated to a brilliant bout of stoical acting but overall it was bang average and nothing to write home about.The only time however that it raised my emotions was when the wonderful keneth brangah stood on the pontoon and refused his place on a ship.He was staying to help the frenchies and saluted and the haunting emossenial music and atmospherics made me want to get up and salute right back but I couldnt as we were on the recliner and the coffee table was in the way and I had also a had a scoop to celebrate our presentation and was unsteady so I saluted back in my chair.The man is a legend !
The dogfights were outstandingly excellent putting you right upthere inside the cockpit with man and machine fused as one in some madand twisted fight for survival
A nice cameo performance from Harry styles off one direction but sadly there was nothing much for him to sing about.
Don't get me wrong it was watchable so I scored it 7/10
Out of fuel over Dunkirk with beautiful cinermatography at the two minute eight second mark.
