Hanks at His Best!

Rating: 9/10 (26 October 2013)

Tom Hanks is Richard Phillips, Cargo Captain of the MV Maersek Alabama to the Gulf of Alden. As he and his crew are captured by pirates.
At first they succeed in outrunning them but then, the next day they are overtaken by them, but they are in a faster boat this time. As he tries to protect his crew and save them by cutting the power and engine off after getting the leader, Muse played by first time actor Barkhad Abdi.
Muse and Phillip whom Muse calls Irish due to Phillips ancestry, as both share a complicated and game of cat and mouse with wits. As the Navy tries to rescue him with the SEAL team.
Muse is desperate but all for the wrong reasons despite "meaning well." Phillips is wanting to protect his crew and go forward with the mission despite piracy warnings. But it is too little too late.