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- Saturday March 14, 2015
Saw Dunkirk a couple of days ago. Sadly, very disappointing
Hans Zimmer's ghastly 'score' overwhelms everything with a cacophony of wailing strings and crashing horns, screaming emotional instructions at the audience every couple of minutes. The cinematography is dreadful, with the dark blue turned up to 11, so that it all looks like a 1990s Kronenbourg advert. Heck, the British troops' helmets actually appear as dark blue/grey instead of service brown.
Incredibly, Nolan manages to make something as intrinsically exciting and cinematic as aerial combat actually boring. Not content with slapping a trendy muddy filter over the lens, he then has Tom Hardy's Spitfire, an aircraft with a top speed of c400mph, pursue a Heinkel with all the energy of a tractor bearing down on a hedgehog.
There is no plot or character development, no-one to care about, the scale of the battle is not portrayed at all, historical errors all over the place like incorrect rank slides, inexhaustible ammunition and aircraft in combat despite no engine power.
I stuck it out for about an hour and then left. The critics are absolutely wrong about this one.
Hans Zimmer's ghastly 'score' overwhelms everything with a cacophony of wailing strings and crashing horns, screaming emotional instructions at the audience every couple of minutes. The cinematography is dreadful, with the dark blue turned up to 11, so that it all looks like a 1990s Kronenbourg advert. Heck, the British troops' helmets actually appear as dark blue/grey instead of service brown.
Incredibly, Nolan manages to make something as intrinsically exciting and cinematic as aerial combat actually boring. Not content with slapping a trendy muddy filter over the lens, he then has Tom Hardy's Spitfire, an aircraft with a top speed of c400mph, pursue a Heinkel with all the energy of a tractor bearing down on a hedgehog.
There is no plot or character development, no-one to care about, the scale of the battle is not portrayed at all, historical errors all over the place like incorrect rank slides, inexhaustible ammunition and aircraft in combat despite no engine power.
I stuck it out for about an hour and then left. The critics are absolutely wrong about this one.
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