Tuesday, October 22, 2013

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS







PRINCIPAL CAST MEMBERS
Tom Hanks: merchant mariner Captain Richard Phillips
Michael Chernus: Shane Murphy, First Officer of MV Maersk Alabama
David Warshofsky: Mike Perry, Chief Engineer
Corey Johnson: Ken Quinn, helmsman
Barkhad Abdi: Abduwali Muse, leader of the highjackers
Yul Vazquez: U.S. Navy Captain Frank Castellano, Commanding Officer of the USS Bainbridge

REVIEW
Based on actual events that took place in 2009, the film is riveting albeit a tad too long at two hours and 15 minutes. The tension begins to build almost from the get-go and never really subsides until the end.

The acting is top notch, even from the highjackers who had never done this before. Credit has to go to the casting director for his/her excellent choices.

CLASSIFICATION
for sustained intense sequences of menace, some evidence of bloody images and for substance use.

FOR NITPICKERS ONLY
Driving from his home in Underhill, VT to the Burlington International airport Captain Phillips would get off I-89 at Exit 14E not Exit 30E.

F.Y.I.
The hijackers chew on khat, a flowering plant native to the Arabian Peninsula. This is a social custom going back thousands of years in part because it is an amphetamine-like stimulant.

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