A great exhilarating, yet slightly disposable, thriller.

Rating: 7/10 (8 August 2016)

Captain Phillips is intense, real nail biting, edge of your seat intense. Plus it's Tom Hanks and who doesn't enjoy a bit of Tom Hanks.
I personally enjoyed the small character development throughout, the intuition from Phillips was great and the dynamic between the Somali pirates was well developed and real.
One of the few flaws was some hammed in exposition at the start to make you care for the characters immediately, also while I'm a fan of shaky cam some of it felt too much during a couple of actions scenes.
Although a few minor faults doesn't stop the film from being a fun and an exhilarating thriller. Most definitely worth watching for the first half alone.