Captain Phillips (2013) in Movies

This will get a lot of comparisons to Zero Dark Thirty and most of them are probably warranted, although I felt this was able to get more to the point and was overall way more involving, tension-wise. Tom Hanks does a wonderful job and yes, especially in the last ten minutes. As is typical with Greengrass revisiting real-world events, I'm going to assume that most of the people I didn't recognize (read: everyone in the film but Catherine Keener, who's basically a cameo role in the beginning) are actually professionals in whatever position they're portraying. Greengrass did that when he made United 93 and I thought it was a masterstroke. Professionals have a language all their own and they know it and they also serve as their own consultants. This movie has that feel about it; procedural, yes, and almost documentary. Here it works. Quite well.