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Jan 26, 2022tadcook rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Entertaining thriller, true story featuring a rescue by Navy SEALs.
Sep 22, 2019BeanTrader rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Boring, done already, trite. Hank plays a scared man whose ship's been taken over by low-live, lazy pirates. The film was extremely drawn out and couldn't wait for it to end. One of Hank's very few bummer movies.
Sep 09, 2019Petuniax3 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Tom Hanks at his best! Exciting heart pounding tension!
Jun 17, 2019
As a story by itself enjoyed it. But since I read up on the real story, I found that Captain Phillip's wasn't a hero to many of the other crew members....so don't know what to believe.
May 22, 2019Suellen1111 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Tom Hanks at the top of his game. He starts the movie totally in control of his life, his marriage, his kids, his giant cargo ship & the pirates reduce him to a blithering idiot. Superb!
Feb 19, 2019reginator_22 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Great movie, tense and gripping.
Jun 04, 2018BookReviewer2015 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
An excellent thriller based on true events! Pulse pounding action! Great acting from Tom Hanks and Barkdi Abdi! Should have won Best Picture in 2014!
May 09, 2018MickeysLibraryAccount rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Tense, great acting, and a shockingly strong supporting cast. Great movie.
Apr 03, 2018Nooksack20 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Better than average movie filled with action and suspense.
Jun 03, 2016TSCPL_ChrisB rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
The actors were magnificent in this movie. It was a little too much action for my taste--I would've liked to had more backstory, more drama about who these characters were and less adventure. I thought the cast of the Alabama were…
May 22, 2016taviwan rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This is a very good production both in directing and acting. Recommend to watch.
Nov 25, 2015salsun rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Very good movie; just can't stop watching but to glue on chair until the end.
Nov 09, 2015DesLi rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Based on true story. Good acting. Good production. Entertaining!
Jul 31, 2015RoyalJellyIII rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Average Hollywood flic- The Danish film " A Hijacking " is a much superior film to this.
Jul 30, 2015akirakato rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is a 2013 American biographical survival thriller directed by Paul Greengrass, based on the true story of the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking, an incident during which merchant mariner Captain Richard Phillips was taken hostage by…
Quimeras
Jul 10, 2015Quimeras rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Not as biased as I thought it would be. Good film.
Jul 01, 2015pnaduy rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
One word: wonderful, both film and Tom Hanks, who is always a exceptional actor.
Jun 27, 2015
CAPTAIN PHILIPS This is a movie I really loved. I loved the movie and thought it was very well created and would recommend the movie to anyone who wants to see a great movie. Not only is it so well created but it was also based…
Jun 27, 2015
CAPTAIN PHILIPS This is a movie I really loved. I loved the movie and thought it was very well created and would recommend the movie to anyone who wants to see a great movie. Not only is it so well created but it was also based…
Parineeta
Jun 13, 2015Parineeta rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The scary part is that this film was based on actual events. There were so many bits of it that were so hard to imagine how they could have played out in reality but as they say, the truth is stranger than fiction. Fine acting by Tom Hanks…
Apr 01, 2015MICHAEL TAGGART MALONEY rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS stars Tom Hanks and is directed by Paul Greengrass. Greengrass catapulted to stardom based on his directorial work on THE BOURNE SUPREMACY (2004), the second installment in the Bourne film franchise. Captain Phillips…
Feb 24, 2015Snowlepard rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
This film is one big lie. Read what the crew say really happened & what a "nice guy" Phillips is.
mishimishi
Jan 05, 2015mishimishi rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Tom Hanks once more proves to be an exceptional actor. This true story really grips you and the intensely emotional ending had me in tears. A must see!
Dec 05, 2014Nursebob rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Despite my ongoing “Tom Hanks fatigue” and the Hollywood hyperbole surrounding the actual facts of the case, I still found this idealized account of the 2009 highjacking of an American cargo ship by desperate Somali pirates one of the more…
Nov 20, 2014enolacocheta rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Don't know if I can say enough good things about this film. It is Tom Hanks' masterpiece. So skillfully filmed and magnificently portrayed. Although of course no fictionalized version of a true event from Hollywood can ever give the entire…