Dunkirk (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #36 extract: Dunkirk (2017)

The only positive thing I can care to say about Dunkirk is that it is shot well. Beyond that fact, Nolan constructs a film that plays like an-out-of-tune guitar with one old, grimy string; it doesn't sound at all good, but it exists on a flat plane and so there is no chance of being struck by any real discord. The editing is drab, the writing is heartless, the performances are unengaging, the direction is mundane, the sound design is satisfactory and the cinematic space has no personality. For 100 or so minutes I felt like I was watching clouds skate across the sky on a miserable, overcast day. 

Thoroughly unimpressive - though I can't say I was expecting much. I didn't know I was this little of a fan of Nolan.