Captain Phillips vs Clear and Present Danger

Captain Phillips has the higher audience score (7.5/10 against 6.7/10 for Clear and Present Danger). Captain Phillips is the shorter watch at 2h 14m compared with 2h 21m. Clear and Present Danger is the older of the two (1994 against 2013). Both are action, drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Captain Phillips posterCaptain Phillips2013 VS Clear and Present Danger posterClear and Present Danger1994
Captain PhillipsClear and Present Danger
Audience score★ 7.5/10★ 6.7/10
Year20131994
Length2h 14m2h 21m
GenresAction, Drama, ThrillerAction, Drama, Thriller
Country–United States of America
DirectorPaul GreengrassPhillip Noyce
Main castTom Hanks, Max Martini, Chris Mulkey, Catherine Keener, Michael ChernusHarrison Ford, Henry Czerny, Miguel Sandoval, Benjamin Bratt, Willem Dafoe

Synopsis

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.

Clear and Present Danger

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's…

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