Captain Phillips (2013)
Average Rating: 8.3/10
Reviews Counted: 205
Fresh: 193 | Rotten: 12
Smart, powerfully acted, and incredibly intense, Captain Phillips offers filmgoers a Hollywood biopic done right -- and offers Tom Hanks a showcase for yet another brilliant performance.
Average Rating: 8.8/10
Critic Reviews: 46
Fresh: 41 | Rotten: 5
Smart, powerfully acted, and incredibly intense, Captain Phillips offers filmgoers a Hollywood biopic done right -- and offers Tom Hanks a showcase for yet another brilliant performance.
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Captain Phillips is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is - through director Paul 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 the Somali pirate captain, Muse
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 (205) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (193) | Rotten (12)
The entire performance is one of the greatest in Hanks' prolific, varied career - a role that gives him a massive arc and the opportunity to show great range.
Top CriticWhether or not you find it an inadvertent parable of the political moment (I do), Captain Phillips is a terrific film.
It's the work of Tom Hanks that makes this film unforgettable.
This is acting of the highest order in a movie that raises the bar on what a true-life action thriller can do.
It's some of the most powerful acting Hanks has ever done.
This is one of the year's best movies and it features Tom Hanks' strongest work in more than a decade. But it's a live wire, time bomb of a film that, when it finally releases, leaves your nerves scrambled.
A remarkable and harrowing story about modern-day piracy and understated heroism on the high seas.
From the first shot to the last, you feel that tremendous security you get when you are sure that the filmmaker is in total control of his material.
Director Paul Greengrass mixes gritty realism with some stirring military ops for an edge of the seat piracy thriller
It's also some of the most naked propaganda you'll see this side of Party Posse's "Join the Navy" from The Simpsons.
Hanks' extraordinary acting in the last few scenes, from when he's bound and trapped at gunpoint in a bobbing claustrophobic lifeboat to the finale, will earn the two-time Oscar-winner his sixth nomination.
Director Paul Greengrass and screenwriter Billy Ray have a much broader focus than one man's heroism.
This is what piracy is now really like. In truth, it was probably always like this.
Surprisingly, it's a very effective and entertaining thriller, with a few moments even better than that.
An edge-of-your-seat cat-and-mouse game for much of its running time.
Tom Hanks is in top form as the hero of this fact based drama.
Captain Phillips not just an exceptional tale of grace under pressure, but an actively engaging experience as well.
The situation is emblematic of the inequality that was the impetus for the pirates' crimes. Even in waters off the coast of their African homeland, they are as inconsequential as corks in the wake of the roused American behemoth.
An experience that feels like having a gun held to your head. Compelling, ruthless and morally challenging. An astonishing piece of work.
Nail-biting and fleet-footed (133-minute films don't go by any faster) and genuinely suspenseful even though a hugely lopsided portion of its audience already knows how things end.
This antagonistic yet somehow respectuful relationship between the two skippers gives Captain Phillips its twist: we knew to expect a white-knuckle cinematic experience from this director, but not such a uniquely challenging relationship drama too.
Something's missing: human interest.
For all its action aesthetics and nail-biting, gut-wrenching tension, this is on some level a film about globalisation, about what happens when the paths of the very poor and the very rich intersect in the crossfire of world economics.
Harrowing hijacking puts you through the wringer
I liked it, even though Hanks has a crazy accent.
If it weren't for the Greengrass/Ackroyd school of eye-crossing filmmaking, it would be even more intense and gripping, but this filmmaking duo prefer to use a hand held camera in all circumstances
Audience Reviews for Captain Phillips
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- Captain Richard Phillips: They're not here to fish.
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- Muse: Relax, everything going to be okay. Look at me.
- Captain Richard Phillips: Sure.
- Muse: Look at me.
- Captain Richard Phillips: Sure.
- Muse: I'm the captain now.
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- Captain Richard Phillips: This is the Maersk Alabama. We are an unarmed freighter. We have two skiffs approaching with armed intruders, potential piracy situation.
- UKMTO Officer: Copy Alabama, you should alert your crew and get your fire hoses ready.
- Captain Richard Phillips: Uh, yeah, is that it?
- UKMTO Officer: Chances are it's just fishermen.
- Captain Richard Phillips: They're not here to fish.
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- Shane Murphy: Everything okay?
- Captain Richard Phillips: I don't like the look of that.
- Shane Murphy: They're coming in fast!
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- Muse: Look at me...
- Captain Richard Phillips: Sure.
- Muse: Look at me!
- Captain Richard Phillips: Sure!
- Muse: I am the Captain now.
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- Captain Richard Phillips: The navy is not gonna let you win! They would rather sink this boat, than let you win.
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This realism and complexity is given to every aspect of the story. After watching, I almost felt prepared for the day I should ever find myself on a shipping crew or kidnapped on a life-boat, heading for a foreign coastline. the spectacle on screen of the American government's mighty response to rescue this one single civilian is literally awesome. David and Goliath have nothing compared to the match-up of 4 armed young men versus 3 Navy warships and a group of Navy Seals. As we waited along with Captain Phillips for the resolution to come, I started wondering how much this operation costs and why we go to such incredible lengths to prevent the harm of citizens by a foreigner, but we as a nation focus less on ensuring the well-being of each civilian here at home.