Really from a pure entertainment standpoint I didn't care for it. It did not educate me as to why the army was at Dunkirk in the first place and really I didn't care much for any of the characters. It was like being dropped into the chase scene of a Fast and Furious with out any explanation of how you got there. I agree it is a fine piece of work with some good performances sprinkled throughout but was somehow lacking even there. It was even hard to accept given the visuals that there were enough boats to extract 10000 instead of the actual 300000 that were alluded to. Can't say I would recommend it to any of my friends as an entertainment experience, only maybe as a interesting example of technical film making.