Great story, great acting, but camera too shaky throughout

Rating: 3/10 (2 February 2014)

What a great story with plenty of character development and action. There was some nice detail on various aspects of the different ships involved in the movie which made it feel like you were really there. As other reviewers have noted, the director used the over-done Blair Witch camera shake throughout, which is why I gave it a 3 instead of 9 stars. Every single one of the actors playing the Somali pirates did an exceptional job. Great job of casting, too. Tom Hanks gave an excellent performance, except for his accent which drifted around throughout the movie. His performance in the final 10 minutes of the movie is just incredible.
As the writer J. Michael Straczynksi once said, the two keys to a good story are to create characters your audience cares about and have interesting things happen to them. This movie has plenty of both.