I was very much looking forward to seeing this movie after all the hype it got. But when I did, I was utterly disappointed.

Removing the emotions attached to this historical event when reviewing this, the movie made it look like the Dunkirk operation, was just a small evacuation of some 10,000 troops. The movie never got to convey the true scale of the operation. The movie failed to show the enormity of the entire Dunkirk evacuation.

In the real Dunkirk, the evacuation was far more chaotic than what was shown in the movie. In the movie, it looked almost organised.

Watching the movie, you never got the sense that there were over 300,000 troops evacuated during this event.

It focused too much on too few characters, and I couldn't relate to the story, nor did I get the sense of urgency, danger, and/or life or death situations faced by the characters.

I respect this historical event and admire all people that were involved in it, but in my opinion, this movie failed to convey any of the emotion and the gravity of this historical event.