British filmmaker Paul Greengrass brought a visceral documentary style to such powerhouse movies as “Bloody Sunday” (2002), “United 93” (2006) and the best of the Jason Bourne adventures (“The Bourne Ultimatum” and “The Bourne Supremacy”).
Now he does it again with this exciting depiction of the actual hijack attempt of an American cargo vessel by a handful of young Somali pirates in 2009. “There’s no Al-Qaeda here,” the pirate leader Muse (Barkhad Abdi) assures the captain of the Maersk Alabama (a grizzled Tom Hanks). “This is just business.”
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 7:03pm