![]() But the hothead of the group, Najee ( Faysal Ahmed), knows better, insisting they hold out for millions since all these ships are insured for just such an incident.Īs Muse and the youngest pirate, Bilal ( Barkhad Abdirahman), are injured and a big U.S. Whenever they sense any games are being played, the pirates go into paroxysms of ranting and raving and, soon enough, Phillips offers them the $30,000 in cash he has on hand to call it a day. Thus ensues a cat-and-mouse game in which the crew hides in the engine room while Phillips, called “Irish” by the bony, buck-toothed ringleader Muse ( Barkhad Abdi), tries to stall for time. Discouraged by increasingly rough seas, one skiff turns back, but the other perseveres, enabling four pirates to climb aboard using a ladder they hook to the ship’s side. As the Alabama moves very slowly and has limited maneuverability, there’s not much the crew can do but slowly shift course and fire big water hoses at the marauders - rather incredibly in these waters, a merchant vessel carries no arms. VIDEO: Tom Hanks Negotiates With Pirates in ‘Captain Phillips’ TrailerĪs it happens, the alert Captain Phillips notices the two boats bearing down on him just as he’s conducting an attack preparation drill. The director has long since mastered relaying exposition as economically as possible and, visually, he and ace cinematographer Barry Ackroyd make the tiny open motorboats that pursue the hulking, graceless container ship look like minnows bird-dogging a whale. The usual Greengrass skill is evident with the diverse settings and mix of languages and accents, the combination of technologies high and low, the laying out of logistics and constant movement from place to place and the outer limits of human resilience and endurance in dealing with severe threats to them. Dozens of mostly skinny guys in their teens and 20s eagerly volunteer for action in short order, enough to man two skiffs are selected. On the beach in the pirate city of Eyl, Somalia, voyages of a different sort are being organized by shouting, rifle-toting young African men recruiting crews to hijack large vessels out at sea and bring back money as well as hostages who might be exchanged for very large ransoms. It’s “just business,” as so many criminals throughout history have said. choppers and warships, the taut screenplay by Billy Ray ( Shattered Glass, The Hunger Games) essentially makes no mention of religion, al-Qaida or the war on terror, concentrating on the more essential reality of impoverished young men, some of them fishermen, pushed to extreme measures by the big bucks bandit bosses offer for Western hostages, for whom they can demand millions. ![]() ![]() Still, for a story that pits locals versus Americans in the Middle East and boasts a climax that involves Navy SEALs, U.S. ![]() With his irrepressibly kinetic style, Greengrass could probably make the opening of a cereal box exciting, so it was almost a no-brainer that he could successfully handle a story like this, which features not only logistical challenges but the sort of volatile political backdrop he has favored in most of his work. New York Film Festival Reveals Main Slate Including 'Poor Things,' 'All of Us Strangers' and 'Anatomy of a Fall' ![]()
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