'Greyhound': Film Review

. The theme of American valor and heroism also has been a thread through many of his roles. So it's no surprise that Hanks was drawn to adapt and star in a screen version of C.S. Forester's 1955 historical maritime novel, is a taut action thriller that exerts a sustained grip.

As screenwriter, Hanks strips down the story to its essence, largely dispensing with both preamble and post-ordeal exhalation, focusing almost entirely on the nail-biting experience of the hellish voyage. The movie fully immerses the audience in battle, owing something to the intensity of both the D-Day landing in.

Director Schneider and nimble cinematographer Shelly Johnson shot the film on a decommissioned, fully restored WWII-era destroyer that serves as a museum in the Mississippi River at Baton Rouge. But the bulk of the action unfolds in the close quarters of the boat's pilothouse and bridge, recreated on a soundstage set, which fits the claustrophobic nature of the drama.

The combat sequences come thick and fast in the hands of editors Sidney Wolinsky and Mark Czyewski. These cover the Greyhound running down a U-boat; the confusion of friendly fire under the cloak of darkness; the momentary elation of a successful hit on a German vessel; and dodging torpedoes with some frantic swerves and panicked "Hard rudder left!"-type commands — the alarming tilt of the ship at one point makes you hold your breath.

By contrast, the use of Blake Neely's ominous score shows admirable restraint for the most part, its subtle strains blending with the ping of sonar equipment and using drumming to inject urgency as the situation grows more perilous.

Filmed in my Baton Rouge!! 😀

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