Review – Greyhound

Aside from a girl-back-home flashback at the beginning and occasional futile efforts by the all-Black galley crew to serve the captain breakfast, this movie is non-stop action. And strangely for a war movie, that’s actually a shame. A faithful recreation of the Battle of the Atlantic would probably be both too boring and too terrifying for a Tom Hanks vehicle, but I was hoping for something a little less like spending two hours watching someone playing a naval combat game on Twitch. The movie would have been just fine with more historically accurate battle scenes, with the ships farther apart and no U-boat commanders taunting their prey over the radio. I enjoyed the effects but otherwise didn’t get much from the storytelling. Mildly amusing