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Rating: 6/10 (13 November 2013)

Now I did not dislike this movie. I'm a good movie watcher, I don't go in with any knowledge/trailers or any of that and just absorb what is given to me. So at first I was very immersed by the style, I quite enjoyed the perspective of the captain on a big ship and enjoyed the atmosphere in the first part of the movie.
However the movie lost me as soon as the pirates boarded the ship, I had no context of why the captain stayed on the deck, why a ship of such size has no guns, why they were the only ship that was not next to the other ones. The other pirate ships played no role(regardless of how the real story unraveled, I am judging this as a movie and not on its accuracy), pretty much all the characters were bland.
There was a point in the movie where I thought it would go in an interesting direction(again, I had no idea it was a true story) where he might go back to Somalia and see what the pirates live like(that's why I thought there was some movement in understanding the pirate perspective at some point). But the movie just turned into some overblown sensationalist retelling of how great the US military is... I am not really easy to sway, but I got the impression they wanted people to walk out thinking something like "what heroes the seals are!".
This military loving is something which should perhaps be evaluated with a more sober eye.