This movie sucked me in, and didn't let go. The leaving of Dunkirk is one of my favorite tracking shots.

after the pretty, albiet slow and boring, first half hour, it picks up and enters an actual plot. the middle and end are even more-so dazzling and beautiful and by the end i even began to appreciate the begining. had this movie, that actually has war scenes in it, included war-fare it would have been rated much better. as it stands it is beautiful, but not quite the depiction the era and place deserves.

Love James McAvoy but it slightly irritates me that Keria Knightley is again playing a posh, rich girl who doesnt get her way with one facial expression throughout!

One of the bests of '07. Although story flows slowly and there are some problems in script, it's still great piece of art. Cinematography is amazing, Saoirse Ronan is amazing, story is fascinating.. Even Keira is great! It was such a shame that Joe Wright wasn't nominated in Academy Awards last year. I really liked it, however I doubt that most of the people do so..

Brilliant! Plenty to admire on screen and plenty to think about, even after the film is over.

Very different kind of way to film a movie. Interesting, but I would not watch it again. Worth watching once.

Loved it. The score was perfect.

A tad too long....but Keira Knightely and James McAvoy are sexy as hell. God I love awkward, repressed British sexuality!

The performances are great all around, but especially those4 of Ronan, Garai, and Redgrave (the three actresses who play Briony). In fact, the film suffers whenever Briony is not on the screen, as the romance angle isn't quite as interesting as it could've been. Still, definitely deserved its Best Picture nomination, and DEFINITELY deserved its Oscar for Best Original Score.

A beautiful, excellently acted film, though sometimes it became a tad overdramatic. But could a woman REALLY have the exact same hairstyle her entire life? That bothered me to no end.

An incredibly moving story with terrific performances all around and a very unique ending. It deserves attention as one of the best films of 2007, with a CHILDREN OF MEN-esque tracking shot that must've taken months to prepare.

Yuck. Little girl has crush on guy, tells lie about him, he gets sent off to war to avoid jail time. He dies, and the love of his life suffers, while the little lying girl makes megabucks off a bestselling novel about the story, which she alters to give it a happy ending. I'm not going to apologize for the spoiler, because nobody should bother watching this movie.

Films don't get any better than this. An emotional and beautiful work of art.

The first half of the movie is good in a Brideshead Revisited kind of way, but the second half is manipulative and only worth the tracking shot at Dunkirk.

For what it is, pretty damn stunning.

Too boring, but I don't mind - the heartbreaking Elegy for Dunkirk by Dario Mariannelli made the long shot on the beach undoubtedly the best cinematic moment for 2007.

The first half was excellent but it really falls apart at the end. The script needed major rewrites but goddamn if it isn't a pretty thing to look at. Also, Keira Knightley acts as well as a board.

British, bookish period piece. The movie starts rather sedately, despite some point-of-view tricks, in a commonplace country estate; and it then gets rather overblown in the war sequences, including a marathon Steadicam single take of the evacuation at Dunkirk. But all in all it's well-mounted, well-dressed, well-acted, and, well, dull.

As an IMDb user said, this is pure poetry on film. It feels as the book does, and brings the novel to life. Not too crazy about Knightly though.