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