Watchable

Rating: 5/10 (2 December 2013)

Film is watchable, nothing more, and in my opinion doesn't deserve all the praise it is getting. It simply doesn't have enough substance to justify 2 hours of running time. It is a story that depicts the true events of first seizure of American flagged merchant ship by pirates in two hundred years. Tom Hanks plays the protagonist captain Phillips. Tom Hanks is a capable actor and he portraits cap Phillips as wimpy corporate overseer perfectly. Normally this leads to inability of viewer to connect with the character. What I've found the most amusing part of the film is how four Ak-47 armed Somalis in a skiff were able to capture freighter of hundreds of tons operated by at least couple of dozen crew members, the true representation of Western social decay.