{"id":116,"date":"2014-06-17T18:42:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T18:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:46:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:46:27","slug":"captain-phillips-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Captain Phillips-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Captain Phillips-2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Paul Greengrass<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70243460.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1367\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70243460-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70243460\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70243460-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70243460.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed June 17, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Captain Phillips (2013) is an intense, gripping, action, thriller film nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I enjoyed the film, I do not think a nomination for the top honor is warranted.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen this type of film many times before and the underlining tone of &#8220;USA- good, other countries- bad&#8221;, whether intentional or unintentional, distracted me.<\/p>\n<p>Another distraction was that all the protagonists are white whereas all the antagonists are African.<\/p>\n<p>This is based on a true story but seems to be glorified.<\/p>\n<p>The target audience must have been older, white, conservative men, who would revel in this type of film.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Hanks is great and his performance during the final fifteen minutes of the movie should have cemented him an Oscar nod instead of the film<\/p>\n<p>The main villain, played by a complete unknown, Barkhad Abdi, was excellent, especially considering the actor had no acting experience.<\/p>\n<p>What a big break!<\/p>\n<p>Overall, an interesting, exciting experience, but short of the Oscar glory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oscar Nominations:\u00a0<\/strong>Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor-Barkhad Abdi, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Phillips-2013 Director Paul Greengrass Starring Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi Scott&#8217;s Review #28 Reviewed June 17, 2014 Grade: B Captain Phillips (2013) is an intense, gripping, action, thriller film nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. As much as I enjoyed the film, I do not think a nomination for the top honor is warranted. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=116\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Captain Phillips-2013<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11605,158,204],"tags":[4328,2254,12339,6330,4327,945,5166],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-films","category-action","category-bios","category-thrillers","tag-barkhad-abdi","tag-catherine-keener","tag-corey-johnson","tag-david-warshofsky","tag-paul-greengrass","tag-tom-hanks","tag-yul-vazquez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20157,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/20157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}