Sully is a
full Tom Hanks show, with perfect execution by the star director Clint
Eastwood. Hanks’ snowy hair and mustache to match jump at you from the moment
the movie gets going.
Based on a real-life incident, this biographical drama makes the best of its
story and raises a glass to the heroes of the skies whose job is to get us from
one destination to another.
The plot is
based on the book Highest Duty, written by Chesley Sullenberger (Sully)
and Jeffrey Zaslow.
Like I said above, it’s a full Tom Hanks show, with him taking control of the
movie. Every scene he was in was masterful. Not that the supporting cast of
Aaron Eckhart and Laura Linney weren’t also good in their delivery, but Hanks
stole the show.
Everyone involved made sure you had a safe flight from the first scene to the
last. The movie received accolades from critics and did well at the box office,
making more than three times its production cost. However, the movie faced
criticism from the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board), who saw it as
portraying them as villains, as they were placed in a negative light—as
prosecutors of the innocent.
They’re right about how they were portrayed in the movie as the villains, but
it’s hard to take any sides as I haven’t read the book detailing the incident.
The many CGI
effects this movie had on display are worth seeing, and the movie’s pace is
well done.
The movie
focuses on the event that happened on January 15, 2009. US Airways Flight 1549
(an Airbus plane) took off from New York heading to Charlotte Douglas
International Airport. Barely after takeoff, the plane struck a flock of
Canadian geese, damaging both engines.
With no engine power, Sully couldn’t follow the directions from the tower to
land the plane on the possible tarmacs given and had to land it on the Hudson
River.
All 155 lives on
the plane were saved, as well as the flight crew, but the plane was damaged.
After the incident, the NTSB questioned Sully’s decision to land the plane on
the river and argued that one of the engines was still operational.
Sully stood his
ground and stuck to his story but had to face a board that would determine if
the incident would be deemed heroic or a pilot error.
Sully is a
good movie to see—that’s certain.
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