Had My Phil

Rating: 4/10 (19 January 2014)

Sorry, I know it's not real, but I'd rather watch the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie again than the "true" pirates movie, Captain Phillips.
Now, this is nothing against the real people who went through this or any others that have gone through a similar experience, but frankly, I was all-but bored. And perplexed.
A ship containing millions, or more, worth of merchandise and is "guarded" by men with barely a hand gun, a few hoses and a walkie-talkie is just plain bad management. Probably things have changed with more and more pirate attacks, but I'm either too lazy or too uninterested to research that. All I know is what they showed me in thisincredibly dull take over film.
And why call the movie "Captain Phillips?" Is he supposed to be such an unbelievably deep and/or heroic person? Let's see what he did in this movie (this synopsis does contain some spoilers):
Captain Rich puts his crew on a drill. They get attacked. Cap manages to get them out of trouble. They're attacked, more successfully this time. Cap hides his men, gets kidnapped and needs some rescuin'.
Granted, some of that is pretty good. Amazing? No. I've seen more heroics from other "based on a true stories" and even some of those are just dramatic football films.
But, the scenery is good, the acting isn't great, but acceptable and it was a well-shot film. It just barely held my interest and always puzzled me throughout on why the film was called his name.
* * * Final thoughts: Sure, the lead pirate, Barkhad Abdi, received an Oscar Nomination for Best Supporting Role. Did he earn it? Hell no. He was so just mediocre in this, I think the Academy just didn't watch more than five movies this year so they had limited options. Oh, and incidentally, if he didn't shut that mouth, mine was going to open, but only to vomit. Damn, no one wants to see all your teeth and entire jaw!