Film Review – Pressure

There have been many movies about World War II and all of its conflict and horrors. “Pressure” is another film about World War II, with primary focus on the weather. Co-writer David Haig adapts his 2014 play for the big screen, reworking a true story tale about the effort to predict a major weather event developing around D-Day, potentially complicating a military operation created to change the direction of the war. Director Anthony Maras (“Hotel Mumbai”) goes the respectful route with the picture, playing up the human drama of the situation as Haig generates vivid characters involved in a fight to handle the elusiveness of forecasting. “Pressure” isn’t action-packed, but something more internalized, following the buildup of stress as heavy decisions are expected for a situation that defies easy prediction, giving the cast outstanding beats of frustration to play in a feature that manages to generate suspense out of history and the changing ways of the atmosphere. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com