The bulk of the film, after the four heavily armed pirates, led by Muse ( Barkhad Abdi, a Mogadishu émigré living in Minneapolis ), Najee (Faysal Ahmed), Elmi (Mahat M. But the director’s just as much interested in showing us the untold factors (political, economic and social) behind the event as he tries to figure out what the hell this is all about and why it’s taking place now and who are the shadowy people doing it. Greengrass gives us a rich criminal procedural film detailing how the piracy worked in actuality and how only four pirates in a low-tech boat could overpower such a large crew on a high-tech ship, which according to company protocol could only use water hoses to repel the armed attackers. The result is a better understanding of what the Somali piracy is all about than what I read in the newspapers at the time and showing once again how global everything in the world has become. Whether the pic is accurate or not shouldn’t deter the viewer from experiencing an intense true-life action pic that has its pulse beating for a story that caught the public’s interest and its poignant observations of the connections between the Somali pirates and the American captain is well-worth digesting. Its accuracy, at least in making the captain into a hero, might be questioned due to a current law suit on the table by the crew, blaming their captain for disobeying maritime orders and navigating too close to pirate waters in order to save time for the shipping company while ignoring their safety. Tom Hanks, just the right nuanced actor for the role, delivers an Oscar worthy performance, with the mostly unknown cast chipping in with brilliant performances. He bases the film upon the memoir “A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea” by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty. The film is superbly helmed with energy, intelligence and creative attention to detail in docudrama style by the talented Brit filmmaker Paul Greengrass (“Bourne Ultimatum”/”Bloody Sunday”/”Green Zone”). His ship left port at Oman and was heading to Mombasa, Kenya, and as history tells us it’s the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

”Ī nail-biting true story thriller of the newspaper headline grabbing 2009 piracy by four Somali pirates, kidnapping the Vermont residing “everyman” no-nonsense family man, Captain Phillips (Tom Hanks), of the U.S. “ Tom Hanks, just the right nuanced actor for the role, delivers an Oscar worthy performance. Frank Castellano), David Warshofsky (Mike Perry), Catherine Keener (Andrea Phillips) Runtime: 134 MPAA Rating: PG-13 producers: Scott Rudin/ Dana Brunetti/Michael De Luca Sony Pictures 2013-in English, with some Somali that goes with English subtitles) Ali (Elmi), Michael Chernus (Shane Murphy), Corey Johnson (Ken Quinn), Max Martini (SEAL Commander), Chris Mulkey (John Cronan), Yul Vazquez (Capt. Richard Phillips), Barkhad Abdi (Muse), Barkhad Abdirahman (Bilal), Faysal Ahmed (Najee), Mahat M. CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (director: Paul Greengrass screenwriters: based upon the book “A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea” by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty /Billy Ray cinematographer: Barry Ackroyd editor: Christopher Rouse music: Henry Jackman cast: Tom Hanks (Capt.

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