Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don't have really much to complain here other than an end that felt somewhat rushed, and perhaps it could have used a little extra work on some peripheral characters, mainly the Captain's daughter and wife, as well as a more fleshed background for Mike Colter's character, but I won't bitch much about it. It's an action thriller flick and it delivered what I hoped for and a little more. Gerard Butler and Mike Colter make for a good pair-up, and…
The second half turns into a roll your eyes exercise such is the amount of melodramatic twists thrown at you. It completely sucked my enjoyment of the movie.
The battle of Dunkirk and Operation Dynamo is one of the most fascinating episodes of WWII. Oddly enough it hasn't been portrayed in movies very often, no doubt because the Americans weren't involved in the war yet. They would remain so for another year and a half. Understandably so, Hollywood has a tendency to favor stories where the protagonism belongs to American characters. I'm pretty sure Nolan's project only saw the green light because nowadays the worldwide box office has…