Clearly a movie which polarises opinions, I have to say I found this one of the poorest war movies I've ever scene. Threading a series of individual stories together in this environment is not new - The Battle of Britain is a classic example of how this can be handled - it also did a much better job of portraying the scope of the event - a task which Dunkirk, despite widespread use of CGI, doesn't do: the near empty beaches over strained my capacity to suspend disbelief to the point where I quickly lost interest. Then came the sinking of the unknown hospital ship at the Mole. Unfortunately, this didn't happen - given the number of vessels that were sunk, resorting to this sort of device seems unnecessary and cheap. To me, it failed on every level - indeed there was a point when I kept watching only because of the one bit of suspense the movie tried to create - did he ever get to finish taking a crap?