The Grey Rating: Captain Phillips

Rating: 4/10 (5 December 2014)

The Grey Rating: Captain Phillips
A flexible rating system used to determine the quality of a movie based on a methodical comparison with the film masterpiece, The Grey.
+ Well developed themes of survival and the drive to live, including individual and group survival. + Creative use of broken glass as an improvised weapon + Predator and prey group dynamics + Isolated environment

Lack of wolves - Lack of Sir Liam Neeson - Set entirely on a boat in the middle of the ocean - Unambiguous ending

At first this film got me quite excited because there was a predatory group preying on a hapless group of misfits, led by a strong leader in an isolated and lonely environment. However, it soon became rather depressing as the predatory group proved not at all as strong or versatile as one would have hoped. If this situation and storyline was attempted with The Grey the film would have ended with the US Army Arctic Response team parachuting down and sniping the wolf pack from mid air. Thankfully the writers of Captain Phillip were not contacted by The Grey's production team.