With a better script Greyhound could have been a pretty exciting movie. Even with its terrible script – which focuses on religion for a risible amount of time – it's frequently exciting and often a bit of a nailbiter. But, as usual, Tom Hanks is kind of boring. And the script – which Hanks himself penned (really?!) – treats the main character as some kind of saint whose weird behavior is not quirky but instead some kind of mysteriously magical power. (This is, presumably, in the source material, a memoir by the main character that is titled (rather ambitiously) The Good Shepherd.) There is also a shallow frame with a love interest, and director Aaron Schneider weirdly insists, throughout, on referring to dead people as "souls". As in, "We lost 200 souls last night." It's weird.
The fights are cool. The rest of it is silly.
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