It’s certainly worth the $4.99 that a month of Apple TV+ costs.I’ve always been a sucker for “submarine” movies. And it does what it sets out to do without much in the way of filler. “Greyhound” is a high-stress adventure more than it is a drama. destroyer from that era that remains in its WWII configuration. Much of the filming took place on the U.S.S. The look and the feel of “Greyhound” are authentic. The Germans never appear at all, although we hear one of them taunting the Americans over the radio. His crew members perform their duties and that’s about it, and a brief appearance by his wife (Elisabeth Shue) before he sets sail is designed to establish Krause as a good family man. Hanks’ character - a decent, religious man who does his best against terrible odds - is really the only one who’s developed. “Greyhound” is all about the stress and not so much about the characters. Working from Hanks’ script, director Aaron Schneider creates palpable tension that drags viewers inside. As opposed to the crew of a cramped submarine trying to sink the enemy and survive depth charges, this is about the crew of a destroyer battling a wolfpack of U-boats, trying not just to survive the torpedoes but to prevent any of the other ships from being sunk. “Greyhound” is sort of a mirror image of a submarine movie. (Apple TV+ via AP) Tom Hanks stars in "Greyhound." Aircraft of the era didn’t have the range to protect ships all the way from North America to the U.K., so the convoy had to sail through treacherous, U-boat infested waters for days with just four destroyers to protect three dozen other ships.
The story isn’t factual, but the situation is true to life. Keeling (code name Greyhound) and leads a convoy of 37 ships - troop carriers, oil tankers, supply ships - across the North Atlantic. Hanks stars as Commander Ernest Krause, a career Navy officer who captains the destroyer U.S.S. Forester, it’s set shortly after the United States enters the war. We had a magnificent movie that was not going to be seen because of the realities.”įor 91 minutes, the taut WWII film will make you forget the current national crisis by transporting you to 1942.īased on the novel “The Good Shepherd” by C.S.
“Apple television has saved the day for us. “This is a magnificent gift that’s come to us because of Apple,” he said. And Hanks - who completely deserves his image as one of the nicest men in Hollywood - backtracked a couple of days later on NBC’s “Today Show.” It’s just not the same.īut that doesn’t mean “Greyhound” isn’t worth watching.
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I don’t care if you’ve got a 70-inch TV and you’re sitting 3 feet in front of it. But it’s inarguable that the visuals in a movie like “Greyhound” just don’t have the same impact in your living room that they’d have in a movie theater. I’d argue that most of the great drama and great comedy these days is on the small screen, not the big one. In an interview with The Guardian, he called releasing “Greyhound” on Apple TV+ “an absolute heartbreak.” And, he added, “I don’t mean to make angry my Apple overlords, but there is a difference in picture and sound quality.” Not a bad deal for the studio.īut Hanks wasn’t happy about that. So Sony sold the movie to Apple TV+ for a reported $70 million, about $20 million more than “Greyhound” cost to produce.
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