Captain Phillips - Reviews

...one of the most emotionally draining climaxes of the year.

...Captain Phillips is riveting. Though he remains unfortunately convinced that violently shaking his camera is the best way to achieve visual urgency, Greengrass nevertheless excels at pressure-cooker scenarios.

This unbearably tense hijack thriller is based on the true story from 2009 about a Somali pirate attack on an American container ship...

Both Greengrass and Hanks are on award-deserving form in a riveting, emotionally complex and hugely intelligent dramatisation of a real-life ordeal.

Captain Phillips ventures out to high seas and takes the audience along for a tense, claustrophobic ride.

This unbearably tense hijack thriller is based on the true story from 2009 about a Somali pirate attack on an American container ship...

...one of the most emotionally draining climaxes of the year.

...Captain Phillips is riveting. Though he remains unfortunately convinced that violently shaking his camera is the best way to achieve visual urgency, Greengrass nevertheless excels at pressure-cooker scenarios.

Both Greengrass and Hanks are on award-deserving form in a riveting, emotionally complex and hugely intelligent dramatisation of a real-life ordeal.

...eminent udført og åndeløst spændende i Greengrass’ vanlige nærmest dokumentariske stil...

...kommer for os i Danmark til at stå som en interessant og tilpas anderledes ledsager til Tobias Lindholms Kapringen.