re: "Captain Phillips" is the most intense movie I've seen since _______?

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just telling the OP that it did not follow the real events accurately

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From all I've read, the major gripes come from the portrayal of Phillips. The crew said that he was negligent and in an effort to save time and money, he ignored the piracy risks and put the crew in danger with his route. Obviously the movie did not relay this same mesage, but I was never concerned with whose fault it was. I've yet to read anything that refutes the events in the movie from the moment the pirates boarded the vessel to the moment Phillips was saved. That is what made the movie. I couldn't care less about whether Phillips was a stand up guy because I didn't get the feelings that the movie was trying to portray him as a hero in the first place.