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‘Pressure’ investigates the winds of war
The World War II drama âPressureâ depicts the Allied forcesâ preparation for D-Day through an unconventional filter: the weather. I donât think Iâve seen a war movie so focused on this particular aspect in military strategizing. There is a lot of dialogue about the jet stream and wind patterns. Men cite historical data from giant documents hanging from walls in claustrophobic war rooms. Others draw diagrams of impending storms hovering over the Atlantic.
Many arguments arise about the forecast for Normandy on June 6, 1944, and youâd have to be a meteorologist to fully understand it all. However, director Anthony Maras keeps this adaptation of David Haigâs stage play moving swiftly enough to stave off boredom. The film benefits from the larger than life portrayals of historical figures played by Brendan Fraser, Andrew Scott, Chris Messina, and Damian Lewis. Thereâs also the old reliable countdown clock, which starts on June 2, to drum up suspense.
Pressure review – Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser can’t save lower-tier D-day drama
A behind-the-scenes second world war drama focused on the importance of weather is too stodgy and repetitive to work as anything but a so-so TV movie
In a world of increasingly segmented audiences, the new movie Pressure cleverly brings together two adjacent demographics: weather dads and history dads. Those designations are honorifics, not gender-essentialist; spiritually dad-curious people of all ages (but, letâs be real: mostly over 50) may be interested in a behind-the-scenes story set in the last few days leading up to the allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Because this is the largest-scale seaborne invasion ever mounted, weather is a major factor, and the movie follows military higher-ups as they work around the clock trying to figure out whether a possible incoming storm will create unfavorable or impossible conditions.
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'Pressure' review: Andrew Scott is low-key hilarious in this World War II drama
I wasn't prepared for Pressure. Walking into the World War II drama, which stars Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser, I knew it was about the lead up to D-Day. As such, I braced myself for a serious, stiff-upper-lip drama about soldiers and the cruelty of war. And it's not that Pressure isn't about those things. Rather, adapted from David Haig's 2014 stage play of the same name, Pressure comes from an unexpected angle in exploring war strategy.
Andrew Scott stars as Group Captain James Stagg, a Scottish meteorologist for the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force, who was assigned to aid American ally General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) by figuring out the forecast for the beaches of Normandy for D-Day.
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