{"id":678,"date":"2013-12-16T18:10:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T07:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=678"},"modified":"2013-12-16T18:10:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T07:10:13","slug":"review-captain-phillips-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/12\/16\/review-captain-phillips-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Captain Phillips (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not known to be the biggest fan of Tom Hanks, but I have to say that <em>Captain Phillips<\/em> has<a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/captianphilips.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-680\" alt=\"captianphilips\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/captianphilips-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> changed all that.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows the hijacking of an American cargo ship near Somalia by pirates which actually happened. I am sure a great many parts of the films have been teased by Hollywood to provide a ripping tale (I remember the actual story being somewhat more mundane from the newspapers), but taken as pure entertainment the film is great.<\/p>\n<p>Hanks gave an admirable performance leaving a lot of of his all-American-Boy schmaltz on the sidelines, his rendering of Captain Phillips was highly believable and evoked great sympathy.<\/p>\n<p>The irony of half the american fleet surrounding a small life-raft was not lost on me and I&#8217;m sure I detected a few of the musical themes from <em>Team America: World Police<\/em> in there! But then I suppose that&#8217;s just Americans isn&#8217;t it. This is probably my only criticism I guess, all in all a very watchable film.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not known to be the biggest fan of Tom Hanks, but I have to say that Captain Phillips has changed all that. The story follows the hijacking of an American cargo ship near Somalia by pirates which actually happened. I am sure a great many parts of the films have been teased by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/12\/16\/review-captain-phillips-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Captain Phillips (2013)&#8221;<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}