Keeping it real (?)

Rating: 7/10 (14 June 2014)

This is based on a real story, but the crew from back then did not get tired trying to tell people that Tom Hanks version of the captain of the title is made making him look better than he actually was. That is something that I cannot comment on since I haven't read too much about what actually happened back then. Whatever the case, this is not a documentary and the movie does a good job creating a very suspenseful environment.
The villains might feel a bit over the top and there is another movie (more a documentary) that actually paints a better picture of how pirates operate or what their thinking and general life is, but this has no time to deal with that either. So while you could make a case against this movie (easily), you could also just sit back and enjoy a movie that only wants to entertain first and just put a little onto the situation ...