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Captain Phillips review

In the movie 'Captain Phillips,' Tom Hanks plays the main character, Captain Phillips as the captain of the ship Maersk Alabama. The plot of the movie starts with Captain Phillips getting ready to go on a trip to Africa to transport food and cargo to the people there. Phillips arrives at his ship and they take off for the African coast. Not too long into the journey, he speaks with his righthand man, Shane Murphy, played by Michael Chernus, and they talk about the area they'll be traveling through which includes a spot containing lots of piracy along the Somali coast. They soon spotted two small boats following them. The pirates caught up to them and used ladders to aboard the ship. The pirates soon got to the Captain and had guns up to them demanding money. The crew eventually got ahold of the head pirate, Muse, played by Barkhad Abdi, and demanded to have their captain in exchange. The pirates agreed, and they would leave in a lifeboat on the ship, but during the trade they pushed Phillips in their ship and took off. In the lifeboat, the others pirates, Bilal, played by Barkhad Abdirahman, Najee, played by Faysal Ahmed, and Elmi, played by Mahat M. Ali, follow Muse's directions to keep Phillips alive to get more money from the US in exchange. This movie not only shows Phillips weakness, but also the pirates at the core and that it was something they had to do for survival. A theme showed in this movie would definitely just be the competition for survival in such poor countries like Somalia. This movie would fit viewers 13 and up, because it can get very intense and sad in ways that kids younger than 13 may not understand the whole extremity of it. This movie is very intense and really shows in the scenes how brutal the events really were. The ensemble effort sets it all up to make the audience feel as though they are there witnessing the event. It is a great film that hit me hard with lots of emotion. If I had to rate it, I would give it a 10 out of 10.