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Tom Hanks plays the titular Captain Richard Phillips in this film based on a true story, from 2009, when Somali pirates hijacked the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
However, while Hanks is usually worth a watch, I’ve yet to find a Paul Greengrass film I liked. I only really enjoyed the first Bourne film (directed by “Go”‘s Doug Liman), whereas Bourne Supremacy & Bourne Ultimatum just didn’t work for me and dragged. And as for United 93, the last 40 minutes were engaging, but the preceeding hour or so were dull as hell, and given how it was all basically made up, save for the occasional thing heard over a phone line, why give any creedence to it?
Anyhoo, Captain Phillips, also starring Catherine Keener, is released in the UK on October 18th, but it does not grab me from this.
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.