This movie is about the British and French soldiers trapped on a beach by the German soldiers. It is a movie with very good visuals and camera work and CGI. It lacks dialogue and character development. Even less so than super hero movies.

In Dunkirk you will be riveted to the seats by the action scenes, boats sinking, airplanes, air-gun fights for a good 30-40 minutes, but then you start to wonder if this is what the movie is all about. At the end you just realize you wasted 2h of your life.

However, if this movie were not based on an historic event - which could be summarized into perhaps 3-4 sentences, it would not get a vote of 8.5 Somehow people are scared to vote down boring historic movies. Historic movies can have beautiful character development, this one did not. The movie is 3d, the story is one dimensional. Don't give it a high vote just because it is based on WWII..