Dunkirk Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		5.0
Audio		5.0
Extras		4.0
Overall		4.0

Dunkirk Blu-ray Movie Review

Warner Brothers and Best Buy have collaborated on a store exclusive SteelBook release for Director Christopher Nolan's epic World War II film 'Dunkirk.' The disc and digital content is identical to that found in the wide release. See the 'Special Features and Extras' section of the review below for more on the SteelBook's look and feel.

Dunkirk Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

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Dunkirk Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

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Dunkirk Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

For the front cover, the Dunkirk SteelBook simply repurposes one of several of the film's poster variants depicting a soldier running forward, face looking down as if ducking from explosions and the debris around him. Towards the top one will find a couple airplanes zooming off the left-hand side. There's some reflectiveness to some of the embers floating about, primarily along the left and across the bottom. The background proper is mostly smoke and dark with some blown out skies behind the aforementioned planes. The film's title appears center in the bottom third portion. "A Film by Christopher Nolan" text appears above. At the very bottom is the text "400,000 men couldn't get home. So home came for them." The rear panel depicts the Moonstone, one of the civilian boats that is a focus in the film, headed towards several men in bright blue water. Beyond the horizon line one can see several fires burning, smoke billowing into the sky. An airplane is faintly seen at the top, just left of center. The spine is black with the film's title center in the same type and color seen on the front. A Blu-ray logo appears at the top and a Warner Brothers shield has been placed at the bottom.

Inside, the digital copy code is tucked underneath the left-hand-side tabs. The three discs, two Blu-ray and one DVD, are situated on the right and the left; the left hand side holds a single disc while two appear on the right in staggered-stacked formation. The inner print is a two-panel spread that features the Moonstone in the water on the left approaching a ship completely enveloped in flame and smoke. An unobtrusive billing block appears bottom left.

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Dunkirk Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

The Dunkirk SteelBook is rather generic. It's a movie poster slapped onto the front while the rear panel and inner print are both fine in isolation but perhaps too similar on focus. But the real shame here is the lack of a UHD SteelBook option; maybe someday. As it is, the Blu-ray video and audio presentations are first-rate and the movie is terrific, too. Highly recommended, and one could easily dump the DVD and place the UHD inside in its spot, albeit with some added cost.