Rushing Captain Phillips
In case you haven't noticed, I'm trying to catch up on a year of movie reviews in the week of/after the Golden Globes and before the announcement of Oscar nominations. Lots of people have seen the excellent Captain Phillips. As well they should! Tom Hanks is fantastic in this movie. Unlike in Saving Mr. Banks, you never forget that he is Tom Hanks. But the much talked about last scene of the movie which is harrowing and amazing (and all the more so for being partially improvised, with Hanks playing against a non-actor) is all the more so for us knowing that if it's Tom Hanks in this situation, it really could be any of us. It's directed by Paul Greengrass who is a quite perfect choice. He started out as a documentarian, moved to doing documentaries like the quite excellent Bloody Sunday and United 93, jas done action-oriented feature films like Green Zone and two Bourne movies. So here, he gets to take a real story which is full of ways to show off h...