![]() ![]() In that movie, the action shifts between deteriorating conditions on a hijacked Danish ship in the Indian Ocean held for ransom, and the ship owners’ sleek Copenhagen glass and steel corporate HQ. What made “A Hijacking” so haunting was the ambiguous tensions beyond the incident between Europe and Africa, haves and have-nots. (Amazingly, “Zero Dark Thirty” remained tense even though viewers knew the final act.) Both movies, “Captain Phillips” and its Danish little brother “A Hijacking” deliver a tense movie-going experience, although certainly in “Phillips” that is blunted by the knowledge that the captain survived to write a book and return to sea. However, the star’s super-appeal in the face of his adversary, the projectile-toothed pirate Muse (Barkhad Abdi), is a great big cotton-ball smothering the question: who is right, and who is wrong on the far side of the world. Still, Hanks serves more-than-adequately as the star engine powering this ship-at-risk story. One could argue that his cry moment deserves a place at the Best Actor table but I would counter that, for actors, crying is easy, taking us deeper inside a character is difficult. So generic, in fact, that Oscar buzz for Hanks, with his studied if inconsistent Boston accent, seems misplaced, particularly in this competitive year with outstanding performances by Chiwetel Ejiofor (“12 Years a Slave”), Matthew McConaughey (“The Dallas Buyers Club”), Bruce Dern (“Nebraska”) and Robert Redford (“All is Lost”).īattle of the budgets: if a tree falls in a foreign language must we ignore it?Īlthough Hanks’ captain does sweat and grunt and speak into a walkie talkie, the performance seems of a piece with his role as Robert Langdon in the big-budget puzzler/adventure “The Da Vinci Code.” Yes, Hanks doesn’t change his underwear for the entire movie, removes his shirt (really?), gets splashed with blood - and pulls off one good weep. So, is this “Zero Dark Thirty” off the Somali Coast? No, and that’s because, in the end, while the event itself plays out with horror and urgency, and an American everyman showed courage under fire, the point-of-view is so generic. The good Massachusetts-born merchant mariner survived the vicious 2009 attack by four seriously undernourished Somali pirates armed with automatic weapons en route to Mombassa, Kenya - aided in the end by a team of brick-built Navy SEALS who arrive like the cavalry to save the day. True, “Captain Phillips” succeeds as an edge-of-your seats thriller with Tom Hanks (or TOM HANKS) as the real-life Maersk Alabama captain Richard Phillips. Its conventionality surprised me given that it was the opening night film for the prestigious New York Film Festival and Paul Greengrass (“The Bourne Ultimatum,” “United 93”) directed. 2) VFX was average.It was not convinceable 3) Although here the villian is a fiction, still it didn't gave the goosebumps as it was being portrayed.Tom Hanks knows how to use a walkie talkie as Captain Phillips, everyman heroPerhaps it’s unfair to critique a movie based on a Danish film that virtually nobody in America has seen, “A Hijacking,” so let’s just begin with this: I caught up with “Captain Phillips” yesterday at The Moviehouse in Millerton, NY, with my son. Negative Factors of the Movie 1) Was there a heroine required? As although they avoided the conventional rom com situation still it would have been better without a heroine. 2) Avoidance of hero - heroine conventional love sequences 3) A different approach from Shakti Soundar Rajan is being adopted.At one end where such kind of science fiction, predator movies were seen a lot in Hollywood, an experimental approach in Kollywood should be applauded. Every character had its relevance and they performed well too. Positive Factors of the Movie: 1) Its not a hero centric movie. ![]() There they come across a group of beasts / predators against whom they need to fight and accomplish the mission. 2.5 / 5 Plot of The Movie: A group of soldiers goes to a uncivilized place named Sector 42, somewhere located in the north east border as per the instruction of the government to inspect & certify the place as a civilized place. Starring Aryan, Simran, Kavita Shetty in lead role. *** Captain Movie Review**** Directed by Shakti Soundar Rajan. ![]()
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