The real subject of this movie is a true and beautiful story of how the citizens of England rescued over 300,000 troops trapped on a French beach in 1940. Unfortunately, instead of focusing on what really happened there, and telling the audience the story, the movie's producers chose to make essentially an overly noisy, violent study of how horribly soldiers can die when they are aboard torpedoed ships or standing in the open when the enemy is strafing them from the air and torpedoing them on the water. It's really unfortunate that movie producers today believe that, in order to get audiences into theaters, they have to focus on special effects and violent horror and, at the same time, can leave an audience to figure out a story on their own. I would bet that at least 90 percent of the audience at the theater I went to to see this stinker had no idea what 'Dunkirk'was really about when they left the theater. Any veteran should be really upset that a piece of real history was essentially glossed over in favor of emphasizing the horrors of war and special effects. I'm amazed that there isn't a 3-D version of this movie - or maybe there is??