Tom Hanks stars as an inexperienced American destroyer captain early in World War II, trying to lead an American convoy of ships through a Nazi U-boat attack in the north Atlantic. A good World War II naval story, based on C.S. Forester’s post-war novel The Good Shepherd, about an aspect of the war which perhaps has been less well covered in cinema than many other parts of the wartime experience.
Still, not that much new ground is broken -- by now, there have been so many good movies about men at war, particularly in World War II. This was a good but not exceptional performance by Hanks, who can always be depended on to play the decent, solid and reliable everyman at the center of a dramatic story. Recommended.
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