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War, Action, Drama 92 min PG-13
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The only thing more dangerous than the front lines was the fight to get there.
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.
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Resolved, plot-driven, unpretentious and overwhelming.
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**Forgettable movie** It starts out with a few scenes with the captain and his girlfriend, who showed no emotion, something that wouldn't have fit the time period. She doesn't care, he doesn't care, and no one else seems to care because nothing about that is ever followed up on, so as a result, i don't care.\ \ It was set in the Atlantic on one ship, but it was difficult to believe it was a ship, and more believable to consider it was in a sound stage. Actors didn't seem to care, filmmakers didn't seem to care, so i don't care.\ \ Ships of the era were renamed to imaginary names, and the CGI was too fast and obvious, it makes me wonder why they spent so much effort scanning real ships in 3D, they didn't care about making it real, so i don't care either.\ \ The movie had no point, no real story, just events that happen during a single imagined story of one crossing of the Atlantic (of probably 100's-1000's during the period), no one involved seem to care about telling a tale, so i don't care either.\ \ I rolled my eyes at so many of the moments they put in here that just weren't believable, and then realized this was another Hollywood shell of a movie.\ \ I came to read some comment
Read the whole review on TMDBI never thought I'd see Tom Hanks starring in a feature film with the same production values as a SyFy Channel original movie, but here is Greyhound – an otherwise tight, lean, and straightforward picture. Director Aaron Schneider and Hanks, who also wrote the script, do a good job developing suspense and urgency; for example the opening sequence wherein the crew of the Fletcher-class destroyer Greyhound patiently stalks and intercepts a German submarine before eventually blowing it up with depth charges, or when, after the hunter becomes the hunted and the American destroyer comes under heavy fire, the captain of the Greywolf – another, much more fearsome, German submarine – radios the Greyhound to taunt the crew with omens of doom; other than this disembodied voice we hear or see no Nazis, and the Greywolf, like Moby Dick, appears only until the very end, all of which adds to the sense of constant, ever-present danger. Greyhound is best when decisions are made and orders are given on the ship’s bridge. Unfortunately the thrill of the hunt loses its impact when we peek outside and see that the Greyhound is surrounded by a completely computer-generated sea – as if it's sailing thro
Read the whole review on TMDBWhen you hear the words “a Tom Hanks war movie,” there are certain expectations of quality that flash in your head (with good reason). Perhaps that’s why “Greyhound” feels like such a disappointment. This World War II military action film is one of the most boring war movies I have ever seen. The screenplay, written by Hanks and based on the novel “The Good Shepherd” by C.S. Forester, recounts the fictional story of Captain Krause (Hanks), a veteran Navy officer who is serving as a first-time captain of a U.S. destroyer. Krause is tasked with protecting a convoy of three dozen ships carrying thousands of soldiers and supplies across the Atlantic. Krause and his men must navigate the treacherous waters for five days with no air support, relying only on the aid of two additional escort ships in an area of the ocean dubbed the “Black Pit.” Things get really bad when the fleet is attacked by Nazi U-boats, and a lengthy battle of ships vs. submarines breaks out. The story is inspired by events that took place during the Battle of the Atlantic in the early days of WWII, but it’s not a true story. If that wasn’t enough of a bummer, the film is mediocre all around. From the dreadful origin
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