Add a quick review of Grehound (2020)

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+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.