I have been transfixed with the story of Dunkirk since I was a young adult. More than a third of a million soldiers were stuck on a beach. What will happen to them? This movie tells the story in vignettes. What it is lacking is that it does not show the grandiosity of what was on the beaches. There was over a third of a million men, not a battalion or two. That is like the entire population of New Orleans being on one beach at one time. The immensity of the task at hand is what makes the real Dunkirk story so compelling. Christopher Nolan missed it. It was still a good movie, but that flaw was a disappointment.