Pressure concerns the critical reporting of the weather forecast for D Day and stars Andrew Scott as the Chief Meteorological Officer for General Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) who is leading the mission to send the largest invasion force in history to liberate Europe from the Nazi’s but if the weather isn’t on their side, then the war could be lost as well.
Pressure is very good and combining both weather reports and a historical story was something that worked really well for me, rarely was I bored and at the end I was happy it delivered the goods as it was a movie I was looking forward to seeing,
The cast are also very good as well, Scott is very convincing as the CMO who ends up with the weight of the free world on his shoulders while also having to deal with issues in his own life, Fraser is also quite good as Eisenhower even though at times some of his yelling scenes feel a little too over the top, Damian Lewis and Kerry Condon are also good in their scenes as well,
If there is one drawback it’s that we know when the D-Day date is and because of that it robbed the film of a little bit of tension as to whether they launch or postpone and you wait for the film to get to that point of the particular date but it didn’t rob the film of any enjoyment for me in a large way,
And so that was Pressure and it’s very enjoyable despite that minor quibble, 3 and a half out of 5.
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