"A ruthless, ripped-from-the-headlines seafaring thriller with a vintage turn from Tom Hanks," noted Little White Lies, while Empire Magazine called it "emotionally complex" and "hugely intelligent".

Captain Phillips - usually confused for Captain Jack Sparrow - takes on black - I mean Samalia pirates in this true story ...

From left: Paul Greengrass, Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi at an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences screening of ‘Captain Phillips’ in New York on Oct. 7, 2013.

Greengrass does something very similar in "Captain Phillips," his new fact-based film. It recounts the well-publicized raid by a handful of Somali pirates of a U.S. cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama ...