From the start there is a lack of dialogue, you are thrown into action though which draws you in, however this soon fades and the action slows down and you are left wondering when the story itself is actually going to begin. Some say it's a beautiful film visually however as someone who knows a lot about WW2 and the scale of evacuation of Dunkirk it doesn't do it justice. Over 900 boats were used and both sides lost around 150 planes which is not portrayed well enough with a handful of ships and only 3 German and 3 English planes. I understand the director wanted to not use Cgi however without this I feel that the script, plot and character depth needs to be more engaging to keep the viewer interested. The subject matter of the film was the evacuation of Dunkirk, I would actually struggle to explain the plot/ storyline to somebody because it doesn't really have one.

Overall I can see the director has tried to make a war film different from the rest, however for me this didn't work at all. Without an interesting plot, character depth or dialogue all you are left with are nice images which does not do enough for the viewer to really get a sense of emotion, and feel what the soldiers felt at the time.