Greyhound
How many naval war movies did you watch or can name ? Yep me the same. “Pearl Harbour” which was mostly harbour based not sea, “Dunkirk” again beach based. Couple of movies about U-boots and that would be it. Now war movies that happen on a ground ? Trenches and that kind of jazz. Loads. Do you know why ? Because they are not boring. Yes I know, bad me, slagging war movie. It’s a opposite. Just because it’s boring doesn’t mean it’s not worth to be watched. Ever heard of Battle of Atlantic ? Do you know how long it lasted ? 6 years . Ta dah. Longest naval operation in history. Longest, dullest and most boring battle that ever took place. Painfully slow cat and mouse game. Tom Hank’s is a accidental commander of a war ship, titular Greyhound that guards transports of food/ammunition/people form USA to UK. We see him celebrating his “promotion” with Aged Elisabeth Shue. He asks her to marry him before he goes off. She turns him down...