I loved "Dunkirk" & i nearly wasn't sure about giving this a try as i thought it would be another really over long boring epic but it wasn't at all, i mean it's Epic in nature as it's about the real battle at Dunkirk so it's all based on real events but it's running time was under 2hrs which is rare for a war based film & rare for a Christopher Nolan film.

I liked how the movie is framed by three stories going on at the time of Dunkirk, we get a Land, Sea & Air story that all gradually meet as one & it's all told so intensely & exciting as well as dramatic & often scary.

The look of this great film is beautiful & moody & the score is excellent & like a distant siren & eerie heartbeat that's always there as a symbol of danger is constantly there & no where feels safe thanks to the brilliant Hans Zimmer, also the movie moves at a good pace & feels like a survival Thriller set in war time.

The cast was great without having too many characters that often weighs everything down, no here we have a few main faces that we follow around in the interlinked stories but none are over dramatized, we got Tom Hardy as a Pilot always in the sky battling the enemy & pop singer Harry Styles is very good in his first ever movie role & debut role is of a surviving young soldier just simply trying to stay alive amongst the chaos & there's the only kind of main character in the movie another young scared soldier who we follow from the very beginning & who teams up with good young french soldier & Harry styles soldier & they become a trio of keep moving soldiers, that main kid is "Tommy" played greatly by newcomer Fionn Whitehead & Harry's guy is called "Alex" there's also a shivering shell shocked survivor played by Cillian Murphy so there's a good solid British cast.

Christopher Nolan is a brilliant director as we already know but i think his WW2 survival Drama "Dunkirk" could be his best!!!

The atmosphere & mood is always kept very tense & almost creepy & danger always feels close by, at times but never actually fully seeing the enemy & it's crafted so cleverly.

All in all "Dunkirk" is a superb war drama with an exciting survival Thriller tone & a great group of characters simply surviving a messy war & wanting to get home.

Also i get why we didn't HAVE big main characters to watch & that's because it's about the experience of the crazy war & just trying to keep moving & survive & it could be any man, any soldier story or any pilot story it's a view into the nightmare world of war as an average guy thrown into the thick of the action, it's a film made for the average soldier who can become a hero just by staying alive long enough to get home. EXCELLENT!!!!