Captain Phillips (2013)

Captain Phillips rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.8/10· 517K votes

Rotten Tomatoes93%

Metacritic82%

TMDb7.539/10· 7K votes

With 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.8/10 on IMDb and 82/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Captain Phillips

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Cast of Captain Phillips

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  Tom Hanks

  as Captain Richard Phillips

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  Barkhad Abdi

  as Muse

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  Barkhad Abdirahman

  as Bilal

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  Faysal Ahmed

  as Najee

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  Mahat M. Ali

  as Elmi

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  Michael Chernus

  as Shane Murphy

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  David Warshofsky

  as Mike Perry

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  Corey Johnson

  as Ken Quinn

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  Chris Mulkey

  as John Cronan

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  Yul Vazquez

  as Captain Frank Castellano

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  Max Martini

  as SEAL Commander

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  Catherine Keener

  as Andrea Phillips

Captain Phillips facts

Budget

$55M

Box office

$218.8M

Our take on Captain Phillips

Paul Greengrass's 2013 thriller recounts the true 2009 hijacking of the US-flagged cargo ship Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates, the first American vessel seized in two centuries, and the ordeal of its captain, Richard Phillips. Shot with Greengrass's trademark handheld urgency, it turns a confined standoff at sea into a taut, procedural pressure-cooker that resists easy heroics. It suits viewers who like grounded, fact-based tension and character-driven suspense over spectacle, and those interested in the human cost on both sides of a desperate standoff. Restrained yet gripping, Captain Phillips rewards patience with a harrowing final stretch and a portrait of ordinary people pushed to the edge.