" An epic film " - said most of the comments by a major number of film critics...Well, no it isn't. For those who want to see a real, well - documented film about how Dunkirk really was during the great escape of the English Army in 1940 the disappointment couldn't be bigger. Technically spoken it is a great movie, but it misses completely the emotional side of the "story of Dunkirk " , the chaos of the event that took place ( the cars and tanks left on the beaches, the thousands of boats on the sea, the confusion an fear by the almost 300000 soldiers ...) and above all: it misses " emphaty "...Only a few times I could see, or feel any emotion for the characters in this movie ( only Mark Rylance is really good ! ) and it seems to me that Nolan spent more time looking for a spectacular shot than how the actors had to play as real people in this historical event. By the way; the music ( or so - called music ) is more than agonising noise in most of the scenes.