Captain Phillips (2013)
Average Rating: 8.5/10
Reviews Counted: 24
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 3
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Average Rating: 8.9/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 2
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Captain Phillips is director Paul Greengrass's multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is - through Greengrass's distinctive lens - simultaneously a pulse-pounding thriller and a complex portrait of the myriad effects of globalization. The film focuses on the relationship between the Alabama's commanding officer, Captain Richard Phillips (two time Academy Award (R) winner Tom Hanks), and his Somali counterpart,
Oct 11, 2013 Wide
Sony Pictures
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Cast
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Tom Hanks
Captain Richard Phil... -
Barkhad Abdi
Muse -
Catherine Keener
Andrea Phillips -
Michael Chernus
Shane Murphy -
Corey Johnson
Ken Quinn -
Max Martini
SEAL Commander -
Chris Mulkey
John Cronan -
Yul Vázquez
Captain Frank Castel... -
David Warshofsky
Mike Perry -
Barkhad Abdirahman
Bilal -
Faysal Ahmed
Najee -
Mahat M. Ali
Elmi -
Omar Berdouni
Nemo -
Mohammed Ali
Asad -
Issak Farah Samatar
Hufan -
Thomas Grube
Maersk Alabama Crew -
Mark Holden
Maersk Alabama Crew -
San Shella
Maersk Alabama Crew -
Terrence Anderson
Maersk Alabama Crew -
Marc Anwar
Maersk Alabama Crew -
David Webber
Maersk Alabama Crew -
Amr El-Bayoumi
Maersk Alabama Crew -
Vincenzo Nicoli
Maersk Alabama Crew -
Kapil Arun
Maersk Alabama Crew -
Louis Mahoney
Maersk Alabama Crew -
Peter Landi
Maersk Alabama Crew -
Angus MacInnes
Maersk Alabama Crew -
Ian Ralph
Maersk Alabama Crew -
Kristian Hjordt Beck
Maersk Alabama Crew -
Kurt Larsen
Maersk Alabama Crew -
Bader Choukouko
Somali Boy -
Idurus Shiish
Pirate Leader -
Azeez Mohammed
Pirate Leader -
Abdurazak Ahmed Adan
Pirate Leader -
Duran Mohamed Hassan
Asad's Crew -
Nasir Jama
Asad's Crew -
Kadz Souleiman
Asad's Crew -
Scott Oates
Navy SEAL -
David Meadows
Navy SEAL -
Shad Jason Hamilton
Navy SEAL -
Adam Wendling
Navy SEAL -
Billy Jenkins
Navy SEAL -
Mark Semos
Navy SEAL -
Dean Franchuk
Navy SEAL -
Rey Hernandez
Navy SEAL -
Christopher Stadulis
Navy SEAL -
Roger Edwards
Navy SEAL -
John Patrick Barry
Navy SEAL -
Raleigh Morse
Navy SEAL -
Dale McClellan
Navy SEAL -
Hugh Middleton
Navy SEAL -
Raymond Care
Navy SEAL -
Stacha Hicks
UKMTO Officer -
Will Bowden
US Maritime Officer -
Leonard Anderson
USS Bainbridge VBSS ... -
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All Critics (24) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (3)
Greengrass and screenwriter Billy Ray put us on the side of Phillips, his crew, the American negotiators, the Navy, and the SEALS. But we understand the greater tragedy of Muse and the Somalis' lives.
Top CriticAs cinema it plays a lot like a knockoff of "Zero Dark Thirty," without the same ambition and scale and with dramatically lower stakes.
It's a Hollywood-style A Hijacking for dummies.
Arguably Greengrass' best film, and almost certainly his most urgent.
Paul Greengrass and Tom Hanks team up for a pulsating account of the kidnapping of the captain of an American cargo ship by Somali pirates.
The filmmakers are as interested in the human element as they are in the true events they're recounting. It's too bad that they couldn't have made their real-life bad guys as multi-dimensional as their hero.
A riveting picture, but one that seems like a safe choice for Greengrass, presented in a way that's familiar to those already intimate with his work.
True stories this remarkable are rare, and movies about them that work this well are even rarer.
In another director's hands, this script might have come across as didactic. ... But Ray's words play effective counterpoint to Greengrass' visceral approach.
Once again, never a dull moment with Tom Hanks. And, once again, a history lesson through thrilling drama. I went home appreciating all that's been done here.
Whether you like the movie ... is almost irrelevant. It gets going so fast, and with such force, that there's too much else to think about.
Not so much a movie you watch as a movie you survive.
The grueling 2009 kidnapping ordeal suffered by U.S. cargo-ship captain Richard Phillips comes to tangible life in Paul Greengrass's nonstop nail-biter. Nerves will be rattled.
With its twists and turns and at 99 minutes, A Hijacking outsmarts the 132-minute long Captain Phillips.
A solid portrait of a middle-aged caption of a hijacked cargo ship man who possesses the right stuff for surviving a hellish four-day ordeal.
Paul Greengrass has the rare gift of working with action-thriller material and making something cohesive, layered and complex from it.
It works too hard to keep matters on an even, we're-all-more-alike-than-different keel, which is just one part of its chief problem of forcefully conveying information and intent.
The white-knuckled immediacy Greengrass delivers to every scene is transportive, dropping you like a passenger, gagged and bound, into this extremely volatile situation. The fear, panic and emotional pain every character endures is utterly tangible.
[Hanks'] performance in the third act might be a career best.
Paul Greengrass has created another gripping thriller with clear intentions to create as realistic a portrayal of actual events as possible.
An enthralling and beautifully made action-drama driven by an absorbing lead performance from Tom Hanks ...
This is a epic uber tense triumph!
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