Parents guide

A man is hit once in the head with a large wrench and injured. We see blood flowing from a wound.

Several men attack another man with a knife and stab him in the hand. We see a bloody wound.

Bilal walks on broken glass his feet begins to bleed out.

Captain Phillips is hit hard on the back with a rifle-butt multiple times throughout the film.

A man attacks another young man; he punches and chokes the man, but is pulled off by two other men and hit in the head. We see a bloody gash.

A man is tied up with his arms above his head. Bloody marks are later seen around his wrists when the ropes are removed.

At several points in the movie, a man is briefly beaten by four other men. In one scene, he is hit in the stomach and a gun is held to his throat.

"Shit" is said at least once and appears twice in subtitles.

3 uses of 'Jesus' (followed by 'Christ' on at least one of those occasions) and 2 uses of 'Goddamn'

In the pirates dialogue, you can hear the F word a couple times, but easy to miss.

Elmi drinks from a jug. It's assumed to be a type of alcohol. Pirates light and smoke cigarettes. They are also seen chewing khat leaves.

At several points it seems like the Somalis are going to kill Phillips.

This movie is very intense and suspenseful as there are lots of moments where Somali Pirates hold men at gunpoint yelling at them that they are going to kill them.

Every scene that takes place in the lifeboat is very claustrophobic.

Three of the four Somali pirates are extremely menacing as they are constantly waving their AK-47s around and screaming at people.

The entire movie is very intense after the first 20 minutes or so. The main character is under constant threat, as are dozens of other supporting characters.

Pirates fire machine guns at several people at different points in the movie.

The final 30 minutes of the movie are incredibly intense and features some fairly strong violence. The ending may also be emotionally intense for some people.