Battle Royale vs Captain Phillips
Captain Phillips has the higher audience score (7.5/10 against 7.3/10 for Battle Royale). Battle Royale is the shorter watch at 1h 53m compared with 2h 14m. Battle Royale is the older of the two (2000 against 2013). Both are action, drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Battle Royale
Captain Phillips| Battle Royale | Captain Phillips | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.3/10 | ★ 7.5/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 2013 |
| Length | 1h 53m | 2h 14m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, Thriller | Action, Drama, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Kinji Fukasaku | Paul Greengrass |
| Main cast | Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Takeshi Kitano, Taro Yamamoto, Masanobu Ando | Tom Hanks, Max Martini, Chris Mulkey, Catherine Keener, Michael Chernus |
Synopsis
Battle Royale
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Captain Phillips
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
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