Awesome movie. The story of Captain Richard Phillips and his crew of the MV Maersk Alabama, a huge cargo ship that got hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009.

Tom Hanks plays Captain Phillips, so you know what kind of performance you can expect (the end is truly breathtaking stuff). He plays against Muse (new comer Barkhad Abdi who plays his part just as well as Hanks) who is the leader of the hijacking. The event plays through an intense few days and knowing too much will dull the sense of emergency and suspense on your first watch. It’s a well paced 2 hour experience that’ll leave you tingling.

With Paul Greengrass directing a movie on the ocean I was concerned Captain Phillips would be a free-for-all camera pitch and roll fest. He reeled it in though and comes through with what I think might be his best work to date.