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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