diff --git a/content/reviews/greyhound.md b/content/reviews/greyhound.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..999293a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/greyhound.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +box_office: N/A +date: 2025-11-04 23:29:37+09:00 +favorite: false +genres: +- War +- History +- Drama +image: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTU3YzY0NjktMmRhMC00MzYyLWI0YmUtZGJkMzJjMWYwZDZkXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_SX800.webp +imdb: 7.0/10 +imdb_link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6048922 +metacritic: 64/100 +metacritic_link: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/greyhound +mpaa: PG-13 +quick_look: Longer blurb about the movie for the top section +rating: 4 +rotten_tomatoes: 78% +rotten_tomatoes_link: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/greyhound +summary: Short summary (70 characters or so) +title: Greyhound +year: 2020 +--- + +# Recommendation + +I don't have a lot of deep thoughts on this film, but I wanted to put down a short, spoiler-free recommendation since +I enjoyed it. _Greyhound_ is a small scale war story that focus on the events of a few days during an Atlantic crossing +during WWII. The film is short (around 90 minutes) and the action and tension are constant so that the entire thing felt +over almost too soon. + +The stakes are smaller than many war films: only the ships in their convoy, but the focus is on the captain +and how his decisions impact the lives of his men and the non-military vessels under their protection. That's mixed with +the suspense of the lurking U-boats. + +The film's focus isn't on glorifying or condeming the captain's choices and on the impossible calculus that the captain +is confronted with as he wrestles difficult decisions. For me, this movie has the baseline suspense and drama to be +entertaining, and poses enough difficult questions to leave you wondering what you would decide to do in the same +scenarios. + +I would only not recommend this to people that find combat movies uninteresting as that's a large chunk of +what you're getting. If you enjoy that, then this film also has character drama to go with it and the story is grounded +enough that it's not hard to empathize with.