As Dwight D. Eisenhower, Brendan Fraser embodies the famous general's personality perhaps more than his looks. He appears genuinely dejected when watching slain American soldiers lie on a blood stained beach, smokes a lot of cigarettes, questions the predictions of his expert meteorologists (Andrew Scott, in particular), and growls when the unappealing weather thwarts his war plans. He is larger than life - and also somehow just as humane as thousands of soldiers and service men and women he oversees.
Pressure is a unique war movie, one whose focus lies in accurately predicting the weather for D-Day, originally planned for June 5, 1944. Scott and Fraser make for fitting adversaries, two men driven towards excellence in their respective fields of expertise, which often clashed amidst the complex implications of a grand world conflict. And at barely 100 minutes, it packs a lot of punch, and barely any war brutality for a movie promoted as a WW2 drama. That's quite an accomplishment in and of itself.
☆☆☆1/2
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