Dunkirk [4K UHD + Digital Download] [Blu-ray] [2017] [Region Free]

Great movie. Sound track is awesome on my 7.1 system.

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good movie

What I liked a lot about Nolan's film was its grim portrayal of the arbitrariness of death on the battlefield that come come from any direction at any time. It showed how random and scary and awful it must be to be under threat of bullets...Stuka divebombers...torpedoes... artillery. It also nicely showed the grim lot of an army in defeat. Beautifully, yet unsentimentally shot on giant Imax cameras. (A 54 pound handheld camera, yikes!) Enjoyed the extras a lot, too. Did you know that many of the small boats shown actually took part in the real Dunkirk evacuation in 1940? The one great flaw is that Nolan fails to portray the massiveness of the operation. 400,000 men were taken off that beach. But Nolan is famously averse to digital effects, and the lines of soldiers simply look sparse and underwhelming. All he had to do was go to Peter Jackson's Weta for digital soldiers up and down the beach. A misfire, I think.

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Special Effects are best of any war action movie I have ever seen, especially the air engagements. Aircraft are historically accurate, too. Most war movies these days use computer generated air combat scenes that still look fake. This production did not go that route. What a wonderful job in that respect! Unfortunately the script is terribly disjointed. I was constantly wondering where I was. It keeps jumping around to different parties being foiled trying to escape. I've always heard fantastic numbers of men managed to make it back to England, but the impression I am left with from the movie is that very few actually made it! The movie desperately needs a more accurate story line.

Amazing movie. Very stressful, suspenseful, eerie. Not much dialog. F word twice. Very well done.

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I like all the great movies by Chris Nolan

It seems a large minority of people have been disappointed by this film, citing an inability to connect with the characters or get engaged with the plot. I found the story perfectly compelling, not least as it is based on real events. As for the characters, they're not especially fleshed out, but they don't need to be. It's a combat situation with no time for character-defining speeches or elaborate back-stories. You empathise with the protagonists on an immediate human level, just like you would for any random person in a war. Mark Rylance in particular is very affecting, and represents the heart of the film; a civilian willingly putting himself in danger out of a combination of duty and altruism. There is a building sense of dread throughout the film, aided by clever editing and a deliberately invasive and unsettling soundtrack. It's an effective combination. Picture and sound quality are excellent. Complaints that the dialogue is hard to hear are more likely the result of a bad sound system than any problem with the film or the disc. The film was shot on both 65mm film and IMAX, and as a result the Blu-ray periodically switches between two aspect ratios depending on the source. The results are similar to the Blu-ray releases of Nolan's last two Dark Knight films, and it's not as distracting as it might sound. The 65mm scenes are brilliant, and the IMAX scenes look even better. The accompanying special features cover many aspects of the making of the film from wardrobe to editing to set building to stunt-work. It's a comprehensive look at the production with lots of interview clips. (If anything, it gets a little bit tiring to hear Nolan constantly reiterate his desire to capture everything for real, in camera, in reality, really, actually, for real, with actual real ships that are really there. He brings it up every few minutes, rephrasing the same point over and over, but you have to give him credit for sticking to his guns. It means a lot to him, and he's clearly dedicated to his work.) It's a very well-made film, and it's served by an appropriately well-done Blu-ray release.

MOLTO BELLO

Great movie provides a great workout for my subwoofers. Chest thumping explosion scenes throughout.

good product and reasonable cost