Definitely one to watch

Rating: 8/10 (9 July 2014)

"Captain Phillips" is Hollywood's adaptation of the true story of an American shipping boat captain captured and being held hostage by Somali pirates the screenplay had been taken from the novels of "a captains duty; Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous days at sea" written by Captain Phillips himself." Playing Phillips, Tom Hanks is truly the most fitting for this part, He starts off playing Captain on his vessel and it's a usual routine delivery, Phillips is a family man and comes across as general good guy. When the pirates do come you see him play the level headed leader that seems to have everything under control and running smoothly showing no signs of true panic in front of his colleagues a real true role model .Hanks gives the performance of his life towards the end of the film where we see an unexpected display of true emotion and should have set him up for the Oscar for best actor.
The pirates are played by new upcoming actors and come across very realistic, speaking mainly in their main tongue and little English they are aggressive and desperate and you could tell that they were willing to go to great lengths to impress their leader back home. The four Somali-American first-time actors playing the pirates are a very realistic bunch. Barkhad Abdi plays leader Muse, engaging mainly with the captain.Faysal Ahmed plays the confrontational Najee, who was the loose cannon of the group. Barkhad Abdirahman plays the youngest seemingly innocent pirate Bilal on his first pirating experience. Director Paul Greengrass did an excellent job with the film and I was literally at the end of my seat.Greengrass brought us into the film and I certainly felt a lot of remorse and sympathy for the characters this film generally made me feel something great which is rare and hard to achieve in modern film.