The first 15 minutes of "Greyhound" are kind of interesting, but then it all becomes repetitive fast. It basically only consists of scenes of Tom Hanks on the bridge yelling orders, Hanks looking through windows, Hanks using his binoculars, Hanks sending guys to fetch things from his cabin or Hanks thinking about his girlfriend at home.
Talking about characters, there is zero character development, basically no plot and therefore no tension. You do not care what happens to these people because you do not know anything about them, nor does the movie tell us anything interesting about them.
What could have been an interesting psychological and tactical duel between the German sub commander "Grey Wolf" and the Tom Hanks character is wasted. The German sub commander does not appear on screen, we only hear his voice twice when he taunts Hanks, needlessly breaking radio silence.
German submarines also like to surface regularly in this movie, doing drive-by shootings and attacking US destroyers head on, a suicidal tactic that no real U-Boot commander ever used in real life.
Talking about characters, there is zero character development, basically no plot and therefore no tension. You do not care what happens to these people because you do not know anything about them, nor does the movie tell us anything interesting about them.
What could have been an interesting psychological and tactical duel between the German sub commander "Grey Wolf" and the Tom Hanks character is wasted. The German sub commander does not appear on screen, we only hear his voice twice when he taunts Hanks, needlessly breaking radio silence.
German submarines also like to surface regularly in this movie, doing drive-by shootings and attacking US destroyers head on, a suicidal tactic that no real U-Boot commander ever used in real life.