On the edge of my seat

Rating: 8/10 (13 May 2019)

Before I watched this for the first time, I had only heard the name of it, but I did not know what it was about. When I first learned about what it was about, I had never heard of Somali pirates and I had no idea that they would ransom boats to make money. It was very interesting to learn about that.
This movie is about a ship captain, Captain Phillips, whose ship is taken over by Somali pirates. His crew ends up being fine, but he gets taken hostage by the pirates as ransom.
I did not know anything about this story before I watched the movie. I am not sure how accurate it is either. I would have to do more research on it. It was so crazy though! I know there are a million crazy things that have happened throughout history, but for some reason I just found this one really crazy. It blew my mind that just four men with machine guns could be a threat against a whole crew of men. I had my mouth open the whole time I was watching this movie.
The director of this movie is Paul Greengrass. He did a really good job of creating suspense and tension in this movie. I was literally at the edge of my seat the whole time, and my muscles were super tense. The main actors in this movie are Barkhad Abdi, Tom Hanks, Faysal Ahmed, Mahat M. Ali, Michael Chernus, and Barkhad Abdirahman. I have not seen any of these actors in any other movies except for Tom Hanks. They did an amazing job. It was kind of scary. I love Tom Hanks; he has always been a great actor. My favorite scene in this movie was when Captain Phillips was trying to get off the boat he had been captured in by telling the pirates that he had to go to the bathroom. Instead of going to the bathroom, he pushed one of the men off the boat and jumped off, trying to swim away. It was so intense.
This was a crazy and intense, but really good movie. Every scene left me wondering what would happen next. It was kind of nice that I did not know the story, because the suspense was even better. I would recommend this movie to anyone who also likes suspense and is looking for a good realistic action movie.