Dozens of mostly skinny guys in their teens and 20s eagerly volunteer for action in short order, enough to man two skiffs are selected. On the beach in the pirate city of Eyl, Somalia, voyages of a different sort are being organized by shouting, rifle-toting young African men recruiting crews to hijack large vessels out at sea and bring back money as well as hostages who might be exchanged for very large ransoms. 27, the Sony release will go out commercially Oct. Set to world premiere as the opening-night attraction of the New York Film Festival on Sept. Something of a companion piece for director Paul Greengrass to his superb United 93, which was based on the real-life takeover of one of the 9/11 aircraft, this immaculately made reconstruction of a chaotic incident will have a much better time of it commercially than the earlier film due to the presence of star Tom Hanks and because it has a happy ending. From Gravity to All Is Lost and 12 Years a Slave, ’tis the season for survival stories, and another good one joins this classy club with Captain Phillips, a pulsating account of the kidnapping of the captain of an American cargo ship by Somali pirates.
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