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- No review for Tom Hanks’ Greyhound movie that’s now streaming on Apple TV+ can ignore the sad truth that some of the film’s best moments will be incredibly hard to understand by an untrained audience.
- The film attempts to portray one of the most critical and often overlooked battles of World War II, the Battle of the Atlantic.
- Greyhound is infuriating because fails to provide the extra scenes that would help everyone understand the massive scope of these sea clashes, and the dangers each Atlantic crossing posed to the ships and crews involved.
If it weren’t for the novel coronavirus, we’d be living normal lives and I would've gone to see Tom Hanks’s Greyhound in theaters the moment it was released. It’s not just because its a World War II movie, which is enough for me to want to see it, it’s a Tom Hanks World War II movie. The Oscar winner doesn’t just play the lead character, a Navy captain who just got his first command, but he also pens the script based on C.S. Forester’s The Good Shepherd. Add to that the fact that the movie deals with one of the most overlooked battles of the war — the fight over the Atlantic between the Allies and the deadly wolf packs of German U-boats — and you end up with an incredible premise. It’s a movie that can have plenty of action and character development while offering you a slice of one of the crucial and most devastating conflicts of the war.
But this is the year of the novel coronavirus. Movie studios have postponed their blockbusters and other films are being released online. Greyhound is in the latter category, with Apple scoring the distribution rights for the movie. It can be streamed online over on Apple TV+ at your convenience. Watching the film in a proper cinema would be a much better experience for any World War II movie, but Greyhound may be best suited for online streaming. That’s because the more you watch it, the more you’ll want to enjoy it. The problem is you won’t understand what’s happening most of the time, and you’ll miss out on just how epic the subject of Greyhound truly was.
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