I hated this film. Why? Don't get me started. But then again, let me get started. The whole tone of this film is all wrong. There is something 'flat' about the whole thing. First of all, there is no battle here. What we have is a series of isolated skirmishes usually involving a few planes here and a few planes there. In fact, this film has so little 'scope' in terms of battle intensity that if I didn't know better I'd say it was shot on a low budget.

The film has no star power. It's filled with a bunch of actors I never heard of. Tom Hardy is in it, but you'd never know it since he's wearing gear in his Spitfire.

The film is told exclusively from the British side and there are no German characters in it. Since the film is so dry and dull being so British, one can only speculate on whether it would have been of help to get the German perspective as the battle unfolds.

Aside from one scene with street fighting, there is no action involving tanks or infantry. All the airplane and ship stuff just get monotonous.

The film cross cuts tediously to a small boat in which an older man and two young guys are heading to Dunkirk with a sailor they picked up at sea and two young soldiers, one British and one French, who are using their wits to just get off the beach and into a boat or ship. In fact two thirds of the movie involve this small boat and these two soldiers trying to catch a ride home.

As a point of comparison, 'Fury' absolutely crushes this film and if you want to see a good world war II movie I recommend that one. "Enemy At The Gate' also had some really powerful battle scenes. I just think they could have done this much differently and much better.