Just came back from seeing it. I thought it was good, but way too short, and did not really convey the gravitas and scale of the event all that well. I have several issues, some of which have already been mentioned in other posts, notably the Spitfire becoming a performance glider. This is what I would call a reverse war film, war films of late have got all the nitty gritty on the ground fairly accurate and anything in the sky has been pretty grim. This is the other way round, the flying was really good, the sinking ships were amazing, the completely empty beaches not so. The weather continuity was awful, the Navy ships seemed too modern, and the train carriage interior? I’ll have to check that. Lastly the burning Spit without any fuel in, and quite clearly no engine.
Don’t get me wrong I did like it, and it does tell the story in easy to chew segments. Some things just niggled.
Steve
Oh, and the cameo was just perfect!
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