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Captain Phillips: Steelbook Edition
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Extras:![2 Stars :2stars: :2stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2_stars.png)
Final Score:![4.5 Stars :4.5stars: :4.5stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/4.5_stars.png)
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Movie:
![4.5 Stars :4.5stars: :4.5stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/4.5_stars.png)
4K Video:
![4.5 Stars :4.5stars: :4.5stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/4.5_stars.png)
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Extras:
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Final Score:
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Looking back a little over a decade I find that I still have an affinity for Captain Phillips. Back in 2013 I remember all of the controversy thrown up over who was the villain or hero here, with the crew of the Alabama freighter claiming that the real life Richard Phillips was negligent in his duties to keep them a proper distance away from the Somalian coast, while the Maersk corporation were standing behind Phillips and his account of the whole thing. And to be fair, we’ll probably ever really know the TRUTH here as each side were financially incentivized to denigrate the other (TLDR summary, the crew of the ship could ONLY collect significant financial damages IF Phillips and/or Maersk were found guilty of actual NEGLIGENCE, which meant that they definitely wanted the Captain to look bad, and at the same time Maersk would lose out monetarily if Captain Phillips actually was negligent, so it was in their best interest to back him). But at the end of the day, whatever the truth is, Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Identity) crafted a massively successful film that has stood the test of time (so far), and Sony has FINALLY released it in 4K UHD for us today.
Captain Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) is a long time captain of Dutch freighter Alabama during the early late 2000’s and he’s heading out once more to carry a load of medical supplies and water across the horn of Africa for humanitarian aide. They’ve done this route a million times, but this was back in 2009 when Somalian pirates were raiding ships left and right. So far Captain Phillips and his crew had managed to evade or avoid entirely any pirate crews, but today was not their lucky day. A small group of 4 or 5 pirates managed to get past the meager defenses of the Alabama and actually take control of the ship. Luckily the officers managed to get the crew to safety in the Engine room before the boarding began, but the pirate captain Muse (Barkhad Abdi) is having none of this. His entire plan is to capture the crew so that his pirate “elders” can negotiate a ransom by the insurance companies who run the freight lines (back then, they weren’t sailing the high seas for treasure and booty, but simple insurance leverage by starving Somalian villagers).
I like to say that Captain Phillips is sort of two films in one, as the tonal shift of the second half is quite dramatically different than the first half. The first hour of the film is daring pirate invasion film, with Captain Phillips and his men doing their very best to thwart the pirates and stay alive. But the second half of the film changes directions rather quickly, shifting over to a “hostage negotiation” type of cation movie, with Navy Seals attempting a rescue of Captain Phillips who is on board the lifeboat with the pirates. Each half is fantastic, but Greengrass does a really solid job at fusing the two different tones of the film together making it seem cohesive, despite each half of the film feeling like it’s “different” than the other.
The flick is a nail biter from beginning to end, with Tom Hanks stepping outside of the vanity projects that he was prone to doing back then, and actually putting his heart and soul into the character. Whether you like Hanks or not, he did a great job as Phillips, and actually does an AMAZING job at the very end portraying PTSD shock when the Seals take him onboard their ship. Another kudos to Greengrass is that while I love his films in many ways, he was the progenitor of the modern day “shaky cam, quick cut edits” style of film making that had taken over the action landscape back in the day. Luckily for us Greengrass really tones down those tendencies of his, and gives us a smoother looking image that doesn’t jump around every half second.
Rating:
Rated PG-13 for sustained intense sequences of menace, some violence with bloody images, and for substance use
4K Video:
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Audio:
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Extras:
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• Capturing Captain Phillips
• Trailer
Final Score:
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Soooooooooo, 10 years later (or 10 years and 3 months to be exact, almost to the day) after seeing the Blu-ray for the first time, I have to still give the flick a solid thumbs up. Greengrass’s Captain Phillips may not be 100% accurate to the events (although the Seal Snipers triple tap near the end was supposedly SPOT ON), but it is one heck of a film. Sony’s 4K UHD looks and sounds great, adding a brand new 4K remaster, a new Dolby Atmos track, but sadly no new extras (the Blu-ray sports the same “meh” extras that we’ve had for the last 10 years). Overall, definitely recommended as an upgrade to our Blu-ray.
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Starring: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed, Mahat M. Ali
Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Written by: Billy Ray
Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1 HEVC
Audio: English: Dolby Atmos (Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Core), English DTS-HD MA 5.1, English DVS
Subtitles: English, English SDH, French, Spanish
Studio: Sony
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 134 Minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: July 16th, 2024
Recommendation: Great Watch
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