Greyhound
Greyhound
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.
Morganfj reviewedJune 7, 2025
In my opinion when a Tom Hanks best acted films.
The film is based on a book The Good Shepherd written by CS Forester. Tom Hanks himself wrote the script for the movie.
Movie cost for $50 million in which made for theatrical release however COVID-19 pandemic auger the release to Apple streaming service.
The story itself is a dramatic fictional retelling of the crossings made during the second world War by commercial vessels being escorted. The true life aspect of this is that the German submarines and wolfpacks did hunt these convoys. The license was taken for example the hacking of communications with the submarine harassing impending doom are in fact fictional and did not happen In the Atlantic.
So the film was not shot at sea It wasn't back shot on several naval battleships. These included HMS Montreal and the USS Kidd for the live action. Of course the majority of the effects are CGI in which studio used over 10,000 actual photos to render the 3D CGI images. The ship appears in the Atlantic it is interesting to know but not a single drop of water was used in the production of making the film, It's all CGI. To do this the team use the video gaming software NVIDIA WaveWorks.
The movie features the titular Cruiser, Greyhound , aka USS Keeling, which was not involved in natural battle in the Atlantic. But indeed a fictional ship made for the movie.
The acting is superb CGI is super and the story is superb...
All in all this movie deserves to vibrating I'm giving it.
Greyhound 2 is also in production and expected January 2025.