“The Pirates Of Somalia” (*1/2 out of four) was a heavy-handed adaptation of Jay Bahadur’s novel showing him (Evan Peters) as a journalist who in 2008 ventured over to Somalia to immerse himself with various pirates and tell their story from their points of view. Opening scenes are wry and sardonic and have a good sense of humor but film soon sputters and goes downhill; Peters is annoying in the lead, both Al Pacino and Melanie Griffith are wasted in token roles, and Barkhad Abdi plays a gun-toting pirate for the umpteenth time. Film even shows various scenes from his breakthrough film “Captain Phillips” which was a movie with a lot more tension and style.