I'm actually not that impressed with the trailer for Dunkirk and the movie itself went a bit down on my hype-meter. Will give it more thought but my first impressions are positive yet not on the level that I hoped. I feel like every great war movie is a rated R movie. Every great war movie has scenes where choreography is not obvious, where action seems natural, organic, brutal... where space and time mold and create a very claustrophobic atmosphere. The grittiness and the powerful graphic imagery.
Nolan's cut of the great war is just too clean. Atonement looks grittier. And once again several scenes just look way too choreographed (remember TDKR mob-fight scenes ugh). He's just not that good with these action scenes and in a movie like this, the action scenes, whether you have 6 of them or just one, they need to have that punch. They need to feel authentic and organic, not staged.
All in all it's still intriguing but the PG13 aspects of it and the lack of a cinematic punch doesn't really hype it up for me as I expected. I expected Nolan to really go out of his comfort zone with this one and to make something that he has never done before. I doubt that will be the case as nothing in the trailer showcases that.
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RIFA on December 14th, 2016, 10:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.
