No, I wasn't... I really wasn't. Please don't label me into the "Saving Private Ryan crowd" (well whatever, not that it matters.)
The beach was almost lifeless. No signs of Humanity except a few 100 extras queued up. How do 400,000 people eat, use the toilet, sleep, wash or just live? (400k of desperate, moral broken men in an encircled position is pretty bloody "chaotic" even for a once disciplined army.) 1000 dead civilian casualties caused by German heavy artillery which reigned on the town and surrounding area after they drew them up into position.
I truly appreciate he wasn't going to get a scale for 3/400000 people without CGI so to me I felt ripped off or at least short changed. It's like watching Sharpe's Waterloo or any other "little" scale thing trying to do something big. It's comical.
All I am going to say is that he missed, for me, on remotely trying to capture the sheer human logistics and scale of it all.
It had no background context to anyone that isn't familiar with history it would have looked like 400 or so blokes on an empty beach queuing up for a hospital ship.
I simply don't like that....