Black Rain vs Captain Phillips
Captain Phillips has the higher audience score (7.5/10 against 6.6/10 for Black Rain). Black Rain is the shorter watch at 2h 5m compared with 2h 14m. Black Rain is the older of the two (1989 against 2013). Both are action, drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Black Rain
Captain Phillips| Black Rain | Captain Phillips | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.6/10 | ★ 7.5/10 |
| Year | 1989 | 2013 |
| Length | 2h 5m | 2h 14m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, Thriller | Action, Drama, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Ridley Scott | Paul Greengrass |
| Main cast | Stephen Root, Michael Douglas, Andy García, Luis Guzmán, Richard Riehle | Tom Hanks, Max Martini, Chris Mulkey, Catherine Keener, Michael Chernus |
Synopsis
Black Rain
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.
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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