Stephan_fr

This series is NOT about what you think - and thankfully was filmed before Hollywood became all "Hollyweird". It's about being stuck in a place with people you may not like, and it puts you right in the middle. No wonder Slate & and the other usual suspect hated it. It's also absolutely brilliant, but deeply flawed.

Visually it's near perfect, the way people talk, move, etc, it's spot on. But what's not spot on and a total fabrication are officers like "Captain America", who simply wouldn't exist in this context. As for bad officers, there are plenty, but not all concentrated in one unit - in other words, this battallion won the 'stupid lottery' for the sake of keeping the story going.

There's also an over emphasis on war crimes that goes unpunished, if everyone acted that way the US marines woiuld have disbanded a long time ago. Mistake happen, and there are some criminal elements in some ranks, but not at this insane, utterly deranged level.

Overall, it's hard hitting and brilliantly filmed, it's a winner for sure but shame they didn't make the story as realistic as the guns and locations.

I was expecting to give this a 4, but after watching it twice and realizing it was designed to be watched twice, it convinced me to write this review.

Rare are the movies that stick with you - but this one did for over 15 years - and on the second watch, it didn't disapoint. The sound design truly stand out, the script is sublime, and every actor is at their peak.

Hollywood never makes good films anymore and I feel the whole space peaked in 2006 before A24 came on the scene. This - however - is a masterpiece. It's not perfect, but it's very close to.

I won't spoil it - it's extremely engrossing, well acted and well scripted. And for once, a Hollywood movie has a message and it's not the one you're thinking. Brilliant - makes you feel all the emotions :0.

The real captain philips' crew has denounced this movie as pure nonsense, as the real philips was both arrogant and fooling as HE insisted to sail near the somalian coast despite warnings. He never tried to save his crew like the movie depicts.

In this movie however, he is some bleeding heart hero who spends his time bonding with pirates who are more akin to bumbling fools , holding no ressemblance to the real deal. In fact, the movie is designed to make you feel bad ... for them!

The real deal however, was a different story - when this happened pirates tried to bring 54 hostages from around the world as human shields. They had no respect for human life and would have gladly murdered everyone on board AND the 54 filipinos & thais citizens (which are never seen in the movie) if it wasn't for the action of Mr Perry who was the true hero (he single handedly strongarmed the leader).

... but I guess Perry didn't sell his life story for millions like Philips did.

As for the movie itself, it's the usual hollyweird propaganda - 'terrorists are just misunderstood and kinda funny in a weird way', 'all authority is bad', etc.

Terrible, abject and sadly well recieved by gullible audience.