Dunkirk

“When 400,000 men couldn't get home, home came for them.”

7.4

2017

1h 47m

WarActionDrama

Director: Christopher Nolan

Overview

The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

Trailer

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Cast

Tommy

Fionn Whitehead

Tommy

Farrier

Tom Hardy

Farrier

Mr. Dawson

Mark Rylance

Mr. Dawson

Commander Bolton

Kenneth Branagh

Commander Bolton

Shivering Soldier

Cillian Murphy

Shivering Soldier

George

Barry Keoghan

George

Alex

Harry Styles

Alex

Gibson

Aneurin Barnard

Gibson

French Soldier

Damien Bonnard

French Soldier

Grenadier

Lee Armstrong

Grenadier

Irate Soldier

James Bloor

Irate Soldier

Peter

Tom Glynn-Carney

Peter

Reviews

Simon Foster

"Surely the filmmaker’s insistence upon imposing his favourite device upon all his narratives is edging towards Shyamalan-like overkill..." Read the full review here: http://screen-space.squarespace.com/reviews/2017/7/22/dunkirk.html

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CourtneyM17

I was a little disappointed with this movie. I expected much more. Cinematically it was brilliant and it was an event/action driven movie when left me feeling a little disconnected. We don't know anything about these characters that we see and I personally didn't feel any emotions for the movie, even though I wanted to. I found myself quite bored halfway through the movie, the whole time I kept expecting more.

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Pierre_D

Tense film draws you to a doomed group. Those how are veteran war historians will quibble at some parts of Dunkirk, notably the separation of English and French troops in evacuation and the ships used to evacuate them. Dunkirk uses a few conceits to keep you involved. The first, which adds a notable amount of tension to the film, is a ticking clock in the background moving you to the final day. We see intercut scenes from different periods, prior, during and enacting the rout. Acting is excellent throughout, and versimilitude is achieved with models of aircraft, uniforms, landing stages and so on. Injections of friendship and subsequent loss direct our affection to the sufferers. Harry Styles is more than competent as a young troop and Kenneth Branagh brings integrity and verve to his role as a tired and firm leader. If one oversight might have been addressed, it is the lack of focus on the German side of things in this affair. Our few glimpses are of German fighters and so on, with very explanation of the goings-on at the front. Overall an excellent war movie meant to be among your top ten, if not top five (It will be hard to dislodge All Quiet on the Western Front, Apocalypse Now, Paths of Glory, Saving Private Ryan and Tora Tora Tora!, among others). Recommend highly a good 8/10.

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