Those last two sentences were completely pointless, because Captain Phillips is neither a great movie with bad performances, or a bad movie with great performances. But you can make a bad movie out of great performances. You can't make a great movie out of bad performances. I'm a massive fan of Greengrass's work on "The Bourne" series, but this is his best job of directing yet! Every shot, every line, and every bead of sweat adds to the tension. When it does appear, it might be to the best effect the technique has ever been used. His now famous shaky cam isn't that evident here. Having a story of this caliber certainly helps, but much credit must be given to Paul Greengrass. Even when it's pedal isn't glued to the floor, the story will still have you on pins and needles. It's incredible the levels of ferocity the film reaches. really intense for the vast majority of its run time. As soon as the pirates show up, the movie is unbelievably taut. Because its obvious that Paul Greengrass worked very hard to make every moment of this movie as good as it possible could be. But it still does take the movie a while to get going, and that is literally the only flaw this movie has. Which is fine, considering how a movie like this doesn't have to be nonstop go go go. So I guess I have to mention the one thing that holds the movie back just a tiny bit. What can you say about a movie that does almost everything right? Heaping praise on a movie is much harder than shredding it apart. To subsidize their meager $30,000 they steal from the ship, they take captain Phillips hostage. But the crew of the Alabama fights back, to the point where the pirates have no choice but to leave the Alabama. While four Somalians take over, the ship's captain, Rich Phillips goes into damage control. While taking a shipment of cargo past the Somalian cost, the MV Maersk Alabama is hijacked by pirates. Instead, director Paul Greengrass tells a true story, does an amazingly good job of telling that story, and purges any possible frills from the already incredible narrative! But Captain Phillips doesn't disrespect its audience with fluffy Hollywood subplots, or over-the-top dramatics. You see, movie makers often throw this phrase at the beginning of their films, then they proceed to regale the audience with fairy tales having only the bare minimum of actual truth. "Based on a true story." Boy, don't filmmakers love that on their movie's title card.
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