DUNKIRK is the antithetical war movie, avoiding big speeches, generals in rooms discussing strategy, and instead focuses on the terror of dive bomber screams and deafening artillery. Nolan draws from Hitchcockian suspense & David Lean-like intimacy to deliver one of the best war films ever. ( )

Mai 1940, der Zweite Weltkrieg tobt: Die Nazis haben die französische Hafenstadt Dünkirchen eingekesselt und für deren Bewohner und die 400.000 dort stationierten Soldaten scheint die Lage ausweglos. Denn durch die feindlichen Truppen auf der einen Seite und das Wasser auf der anderen scheint es keine Chance auf Überleben zu geben. Doch in Großbritannien ersinnt man eine kühne Rettungsmission, von der zuerst nur die wenigsten glauben, dass sie Aussicht auf Erfolg haben kann: Während die eingekesselten Soldaten, darunter Tommy (Fionn Whitehead), Alex (Harry Styles) und Gibson (Aneurin Barnard), am Boden ums Überleben kämpfen, sorgen RAF-Piloten wie Farrier (Tom Hardy) in ihren Spitfires für Feuerschutz aus der Luft. Gleichzeitig eilen von Commander Bolton (Kenneth Branagh) koordinierte Zivilisten wie Mr. Dawson (Mark Rylance) den eingekesselten Soldaten mit ihren kleinen Booten übers Wasser zu Hilfe. (fonte: filmstarts.de)

L'esercito inglese, impegnato a liberare le truppe alleate dalla Francia occupata dai nazisti, resta intrappolato sulla spiaggia con le spalle al mare e devone affrontare una situazione impossibile mentre il nemico avanza. (fonte: Wikipedia)

Nel 1940, dopo l'invasione della Francia da parte della Germania nazista, migliaia di soldati alleati si sono ritirati sulle spiagge di Dunkerque e, circondati dall'esercito tedesco, attendono di essere evacuati.

Technically excellent but entirely soulless film that fails to understand or get to the core of the truly epic nature of the Dunkirk evacuation. Over the eight days between 26 May and 4 June 1940, 338,000 British, French and Belgian troops were rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk by British and Canadian destroyers and a flotilla of 800 little boats - fishing boats, small pleasure craft and yachts. All this while under bombardment by the surrounding German forces and under constant air attack by the Luftwaffe. From a directorial perspective, Nolan's playing about with time was interesting and well done, but in the context of the film pointless. The structure is episodic and there are storylines that appear superfluous and worse, tedious. It isn't that Dunkirk is a bad film - it is always fantastic to look at and Hans Zimmer's metronomic score is magnificent, but unfortunately the whole thing is characterless and emotion free and leaves no real impression of the "miracle of Dunkirk". ( )