"Greyhound"

[George K]

https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/greyhound/umc.cmc.o5z5ztufuu3uv8lx7m0jcega?itscg=10000&itsct=atv-0-tv_ovp-carousel-apl-200528

Apple TV+ has a free trial, so I thought I'd give this a shot. The movie was pulled from theaters because of the pandemic and went straight to Apple TV.

What a disappointment this movie was.

It's a short movie, about 90 minutes of actual movie. More than 90% of it is Hanks giving orders to his men on the "Greyhound", a Fletcher-class destroyer, which is escorting a convoy across the Atlantic in early 1942.

Special effects were very good, but the story gave no sense of character, etc. It was like watching cat and mouse for an hour and a half.

2/4 stars, and that's being generous.

The trailer is thrilling, of course, but if you watch it, you've seen the entire movie:

Link to video

[bachophile]

US Navy tweeted this

Sorry @USArmy, @tomhanks is finally one of ours now.

[George K]

Oh, Hanks was certainly good in it. He played Tom Hanks.

It was the storytelling that I found wanting. It was like watching (ducking) Nascar for an hour and a half, but with right turns and crashes as well.

[bachophile]

Really interesting talk/interview with hanks by Dan Carlin (the absolute best history podcaster around) about the movie

https://dchhaddendum.libsyn.com

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in "Greyhound":

Oh, Hanks was certainly good in it. He played Tom Hanks.

He ran around in drag?

[Mik]

Just watched it. I found the cat and mouse of the Battle of the Atlantic pretty compelling. Very high tension, which was their aim. It's a story seldom told but worth the telling.

[jon-nyc]

Just watched it and I’m with Mik. I found it reasonably compelling.

[Copper]

@bachophile said in "Greyhound":

US Navy tweeted this
Sorry @USArmy, @tomhanks is finally one of ours now.

Jim Lovell was Navy (Apollo 13)