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I'm not sure if the film was trying to make a comment by playing it quite so 'Hollywood' at the end, but to me it did feel a bit odd in the film to have the music, camera-work and dialogue of a Michael Bay movie occurring in a situation where they were facing down a couple of guys with more feet than shoes. The one thing I was surprised that it came on strong about was the military response. In the tension and in the lulls, the film does well to keep things evenly balanced so that you don't completely turn against the Somalis as if they were generic baddies, but at the same time it never pushes anything down your throat about their situation. There are moments where it doesn't really keep that up – some of them it needs, but others it doesn't. It does this by breaking the story down pretty well into such contained but yet connected moments so that it is effective at the time and also has a flow to it. How much it matters if you already do or not I cannot say, but for me the film was not really about the resolution until near the end because for most of the time it is about the moment and what is going on there and then. Captain Phillips delivers a tight, action-packed story fraught with none of the usual missteps of the genre, and if it is indeed rewarded with the highest of honors, it will be well deserved.Īlthough it is basically a true story, I must be one of the few who did not know the ending already, since I had never heard this specific story. It seems that every time Tom Hanks makes a good movie, people begin to label it as 'Oscar bait,' as if the movie were created just as a vehicle to earn an award. Bill Ray's screenplay does not duck some plausible consequences to the actions of each main player and leaves us with a scene that is as emotionally overpowering as anything in Hanks' previous Philadelphia. The ending is predictable only in the most general sense. Truly a talent to look out for, Abdi nails this role. Abdi is a wonder to watch unpredictable and cunning but a little greedy and rapidly running out of viable options. Matching him wit for wit while frantically trying to keep his own wits about him is Abdi as the skinny, intelligent Muse, seemingly a veteran of high piracy (though not against huge container ships). He's just a guy in charge of a boat and its passengers. He doesn't suddenly develop super strength and overpower the bad guys. He's an Everyman, per usual, but he's not also a savior or a hero. It's sometimes painful and heart wrenching to watch. This is one of the toughest, most naked performances of Hanks' stellar career. But they're quickly immersed in an impossible situation. The villains are conflicted and desperate. The movie is told in two distinct halves: the time spent by the pirates on the Maersk as they search in vain for treasure and crew, and the time spent in the ship's lifeboat as they make their way to Somalia. His gang includes a strong man with a quick temper and Muse's own relative, who'd begged to come along on the mission - a mission that, when successful, would go a long way to improving their lives. Muse (Abdi) quickly proves himself to be a strong, humanistic leader he's single minded (where's the crew? where's the goods?) but not sinister. The pirates board the giant ship, clearly pleased with their find. There are nuances afoot for once, we get the perspective of the lead pirate (Barkhad Abdi) without falling into the easy trap of feeling empathy toward him. If this were a standard action flick, we might see the heroism of Phillips and his motley crew as they fight the evil pirates and save the world. They're pirates, working for a warlord in their impoverished country, and they smell opportunity. Two skiffloads of armed Somalis close in, ready to board the vessel.

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Hanks is the titular captain of the United States container ship MV Maersk Alabama, cruising along the coast of Somalia with a full load and heading toward the horn of Africa. Driven by a powerful, soul-baring performance by the inimitable Tom Hanks, the movie never lags, never oversells the plight of its characters, never reduces anyone or anything to mere caricature. Based on true events, Paul Greengrass' Captain Phillips is the rarest of thrillers, the kind that relies on neither distracting special effects nor circumspect character development.

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