What a depressing movie about a tremendously uplifting event. So many stories of real heroes and heroics to choose from, this Hollywood trash is inaccurate and depressing, focusing mainly on rotten events, and seeming, at least to me, to skimp on matters like extras and facts (photos from the time show warships with crowded decks not just enough to man the sides, ships did not anchor for loading due to the air threat, discipline remained excellent to the very end, even the Spitfires gyroscopic sight in the pretty good flying simulations was wrong for the time).

Apart from Kenneth Branagh's role (and I suspect he might perhaps be embarrassed to be associated with the end version as his role stood apart as fittingly uplifting), this movie is insulting to the greatest generation and the French have a right to be upset too. No doubt many, particularly self-styled intellectuals, will disagree with me, and that's okay, but as one who grew up hearing stories from those who were there at Dunkirk and who has read a great deal about it, I think this travesty of a great story is Hollywood junk(unlike Saving Private Ryan which is excellent)!