Blood Diamond vs Captain Phillips
Blood Diamond and Captain Phillips are tied on audience score (7.6/10). Captain Phillips is the shorter watch at 2h 14m compared with 2h 23m. Blood Diamond is the older of the two (2006 against 2013). Both are action, drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Blood Diamond
Captain Phillips| Blood Diamond | Captain Phillips | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 7.5/10 |
| Year | 2006 | 2013 |
| Length | 2h 23m | 2h 14m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, Thriller | Action, Drama, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Edward Zwick | Paul Greengrass |
| Main cast | Jennifer Connelly, David Harewood, Michael Sheen, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Djimon Hounsou | Tom Hanks, Max Martini, Chris Mulkey, Catherine Keener, Michael Chernus |
Synopsis
Blood Diamond
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
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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