Sully (2016)
2016
PG-13
On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain "Sully" Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all...
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"Apollo 13," "Cast Away," "Captain Phillips," and Clint Eastwood’s "Sully" just gave us the reason why we should never travel with Tom Hanks. It follows the story on what really happened on the "Miracle of the Hudson" as US Airways Capt. Chelsey Sullenberger decided to call a water landing in the middle of the Hudson River with zero casualties.
The film details how the event affected Sully's personal life, as well as the investigation of how this could have been prevented. Like "Deepwater Horizon," the events related in Sully played out as the exclusive news in the television on the not-so-distant past.
Sully is a beautifully-balanced film that offers a new take on the genre. It avoids classic disaster tropes into something new - the storytelling. Eastwood and writer Todd Komarnicki's narrative employs in a non-linear structure. And it's mind-boggling to see the perspectives of each character, even the bit-players. There's no time for wasting the 90-minute runtime, no time for melodramas in the end. It’s tense and tight. The storytelling is straightforward and simple notwithstanding its different time periods.
Hanks is not alone in his travel. Aaron Eckhart is remarkable as first mate Jeff Skiles, while Laura Linney gives a small yet powerful performance as his wife Lorraine.
VERDICT: What works incredibly great is how Eastwood and Komarnicki have given us a way of delivering disaster, while still holding to the psychological side and human scale of it.0 member like this review.
