Good

Rating: 7/10 (19 August 2014)

Say hello to the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. Hanks carries this movie and saves it from being a disaster. The film is dark, brooding, intense; it is hard to watch at times and difficult to call enjoyable, but the story is still powerful. The trains of righteousness can't be stopped and their movement brings about reactive forces in the people they affect. A masterful work that imbues you to it through its realism. Great performances help to enhance this amazing story.