Sully is a Clint Eastwood directed drama which follows the pilot Chesney Sullenberger during the investigation into the forced water landing in the Hudson river in 2009.
Tom Hanks is brilliant in everything, but not everything he is in is brilliant. Sadly this is the case here. I found Sully to be boring, repetitive and, at times, even emotionally manipulative. I understand why director Clint Eastwood decided to show the landing several times from different perspectives because without it, an already short film would be even shorter. But instead of finding it engaging or exciting I didn't want to see it at least three times.
While there were parts I liked, there were a lot more parts that I didn't. Tom Stern's cinematography is well done, and, of course, Tom Hanks is brilliant. I also liked Aaron Eckhart as the co-pilot, but his moustache kept distracting me. Apparently it is real but it looks really fake and took me out of the film even though it shouldn't have(similar to Alexander Skarsgård's hands in The Legend of Tarzan).
In short: Sully was uninteresting and repetitive but has some redeeming factors.
I'm doing terrible at writing reviews when I say I will so they will all be shorter until I catch up, as I have something I really want to write about.
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