Review of Captain Phillips (2013) by Chris B — 27 Aug 2016

I was quite looking forward to this film before I sat down to watch it. Paul Greengrass and Tom Hanks depicting a true story, could this be the next Apollo 13?? At first I was hopeful, the film quickly got to Hanks being at sea on the boat with Pirates on the way to him.

The ships crew trying to keep the pirates at bay was a tense scene and I was hoping this would continue. Unfortunately from here the tenseness took a back seat and it was more of a personal story between the pirate captain and Hanks' captain.

This was especially true when the pirates enter the life raft and what was almost half of the films run time was then spent in this confined space with not much happening. There is one scene near the end where it just seemed endless as the action just went round and round with the pirates not trusting the US Navy and the Navy not trusting the pirates.

For me the film could have been better paced with more action and less conversations between the navy and the pirates.