Overall, I enjoyed it and it's well worth seeing. This is not a big picture type movie like "The Longest Day" with lots of decisions in London or Berlin being covered, it's three parallel story lines that intersect occasionally. A British Army private wanting to get evacuated, an RAF pilot and a civilian taking his pleasure craft to pick up evacuees. There is no "from the German point of view" piece at all in fact, except for aircraft, you never even see any Germans except for two silhouettes at the end capturing a downed airman.
It was actually filmed at the evacuation beach. The music is good, it adds a lot. It's as realistic as possible considering it doesn't have much CGI.
Only one goofball part in my view - some British soldiers were sheltering in the hull of a stranded fishing boat waiting for the incoming tide to float it so they could motor to England. Just as the tide was starting to float it, the Germans started firing at it as target practice not knowing that there were Brits in the hull. Lots of water was flooding it and they had a ridiculous argument about how one man out of like 16 should get out to lessen the weight in the hull (as if that would make a difference) and it got all moral and silly and lasted a long time in the middle of this emergency situation - I cringed.
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