One of Hanks' best performances yet, great movie.

Rating: 10/10 (2 January 2019)

I watched this movie because Tom Hanks was in it, so it already had to be at least okay. Oh boy. This movie went beyond all my expectations. Truly one of the best, most exciting and thrilling movies I have ever seen in my life.
When I read the description, I thought the movie was going to be pretty slow paced and I thought it was going to have an exciting and suspenseful ending, but nothing more.
This movie took of on minute 10 or so, from there until the ending... non-stop suspenseful, thrilling, well acted and directed scenes with a great cast. To think that some of Somalis had never done a movie before... unbelievable. Imagine: it's your first ever part in a movie, it already stars Tom Hanks, in my opinion one of the greatest actors of all time, and you have to be intimidating and scaring him all movie long.
There wasn't a single moment in this movie where I got bored.
Also, let me just talk about that ending scene. So Spoilers from here.
The moment they shoot everyone in the boat, and Captain Phillips is hanging there blindfolded, and you hear nothing but the Captain, who doesn't know what happened... I thought: 'okay, wow, so that was the most intense part piece of movie I have seen in a long time'. Then they get him of the boat and take him to safety... The doctors start to examine him, and try to talk to him... Boy, the moment he breaks... I got tears in my eyes. And that doesn't happen to often. The way Tom Hanks acted made it look so real, so gripping. He should have won an oscar for that scene alone.
So that's my review. A thrilling, gripping, exciting, well acted masterpiece. Truly something else this.