Boomer propaganda, and not even fun or well made at that. The

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Boomer propaganda, and not even fun or well made at that. The film is basically British Saving Private Ryan. Nolan and Brits cuck themselves for the French. Germans are in one blurry shot in the entire film and are otherwise faceless, disembodied Lovecraftian Others manifested by carefully selected bullet placement. Tom hardy wears a mask and crashes multiple planes with no survivors. The entire film seems like Nolan attempting to create his own version of an emotional and tense genre film, except this one of several in his oeuvre where it doesn't actually work and the emotional and tense moments come off as forced. There's an entire subplot devoted to how British people who side with fellow Brits over the French are evil, and one of the main British characters who espouses any notion of exclusive British camaraderie drowns in a particularly gruesome fashion. The anti-nationalism sentiment is timed specifically for political and topical relevance. Unfortunately, much like Saving Private Ryan, this smug and moralistic condemnation of tribalism is never actually explored or fleshed out because the Germans are apparently the eternal evil and so alien that they don't even deserve screentime, they exist as disembodied bullets much in the same way as the mass shooter in Keith Maitland's 2016 film Tower was excised from the film as both a "fuck you" to the perceived perpetrator and as a stab at pretentions of minimalism and the avant garde. Cilian Murphy attempts to play a difficult role but, due to either his own lack of acting ability or due to the incompetence of both Nolan and the script, his performance comes off as stilted and unnecessary.

Don't pay money to see this shit.