Hide in the engine room....

Rating: 9/10 (1 November 2013)

Captain Richard Phillips, has a war of nerves with Somali pirate captain Muse, who takes him hostage.
Phillips and Muse are on a collision course when Muse and his crew target Phillips' unarmed ship.
In the ensuing standoff, miles off the Somali coast, both men will find themselves at the mercy of forces beyond their control......
This time of year always releases the potential award winners, and thank goodness, because what we have in my opinion is the best film to be released in the UK as of November 1st 2013.
And after a slew of boring summer movies, it's such a welcome relief that we have something here so entertaining, so rich with narrative, and a career best from Tom Hanks. What more could you want from a film.
Yes the film is fundamentally about the takeover, but if you look a little deeper, it's about capitalism, and segregation, and how different cultures live. When Phillips speaks to his wife about how he is worrying about the future of his children, due to impending globalisation, you can read between the lines.
Even though its pretty far into the movie when the pirates takeover, it's pretty tense stuff from the beginning. You know what will happen, but you still want the crew to get away, and for the pirates to forget about their quest, and just go and make an honest living.
But you know you cannot change a story by wishing it, but these sorts of movies make you feel his way. The second coming of the pirates is white knuckle to say the least, and that's how the film is until the end, white knuckle.
But those words do not give the films feeling justice, Greengrass uses his docu style feel to full effect here. It ruined Green Zone, but here it adds to the atmosphere.
Much has been said about the final scene, and believe me, its the most riveting final scene I've seen in a while, and it had me in tears. If Hanks doesn't get nominated, I'll close my IMDb account.
But Abdi rivals Hanks on screen, and for a debut, it's the best I've ever seen.
So all in all, its a tense movie, never releasing you from its tense grip for the duration.
Brilliant.