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OK, three things up front about the movie. 1). As a right winger looking for Greengrass to let his pinko slip to show, I didn't see it. 2). In line with that Greengrass made the pirate leader Muse (pronounced moose-a), into something of a complex sympathetic figure without turning him or the rest of them into victims--give him a gold star for finesse. 3). The ones playing the pirates were all born/raised in the Somali area and emigrated to the U.S. This is the first and only acting credit, or any other information, for all of them on IMDb. Amazing, particularly Barkhad Abdi who plays Muse. Hanks' role is boiler plate until the end where he was required to step his performance up considerably.

I expected the movie to be a low key sort of ho hum retelling, but Greengrass' details and the continuously building suspense, even though you know how it ends, made it Bourne-like top notch for me. 9/10

FYI, the Maersk Alabama, starting 6 months after this incident, was attacked under the same circumstances 4 more times by Somali pirates in those same waters. But each time automatic weapons, and in at least one case according to Wikipedia, sonic weapons, were used. All were unsuccessful. I'm surprised they didn't post that tidbit at the end of the movie with the other post scripts--or why it took this incident to get them off their duffs.