2020 · war · action · drama
Greyhound
Directed by Aaron Schneider1h 32m2020
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.
Our read: Greyhound (2020) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded war · action · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme war / action, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- epic-stakes
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