Good (76/100)

Rating: 7/10 (11 January 2017)

This movie tells the true story of the airplane pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger (played by Tom Hanks), who, in 2009, had to land in the Hudson river after a bird strike that disabled both engines. And though he was able to save everyone on board, people started doubting if he did the right thing and whether or not he could have made it back to the airport.
The film starts after the event had already happened and we see the consequences of it both in the media and in Sully's personal life and the actual event is told through flashbacks throughout the movie. One of the complains I heard about this film is that there are too many flashbacks and most of them are not needed. I partially agree with that: they show several clips of the accident always with something more (or less) each time they show it and most of them don't add much to the one showed before, so I think some of these should have been cut. There's another unneeded clip that shows Sully learning how to fly a plane and one showing him in the air-force landing a jet (though it's not needed, this one is pretty cool).
I found acting in this movie to be mostly okay. Tom Hanks and Aaron Eckhart are both great as the two main leads but the rest of the actors were not that good.
Here in Brazil this movie is called "Sully: The Hero of the Hudson River" and that basically tells you everything about how the movie want us to see Captain Sully: as a hero, and the ones that are "agaist" him: as the villains. And that's my biggest issue with this movie: there is a clear "right" side and "wrong" side. The people investigating if he did or not the right thing are portrayed as villains and thus we don't ask ourselves if what he did was right or not. I think the film would be much better if we kept asking ourselves who's side is the "right" one! That happens briefly in the fist act but it just stops! And the villains are not even good villains they're just blend!
Clint Eastwood's direction is really good for the most part; There's one scene that I found it sort of weird: Anna Gunn's character is the only one talking and there's two other people in the frame with her and she's almost out of the frame and every time it cuts back to her it's this exact same angle!
Most of the characters, with exception of Tom Hank's and Aaron Eckhart's, I found to be kinda generic though the movie focus is mostly in the main leads. But surprisingly one character that gets too much screen time is the guy from the air traffic control, he has two pointless scenes and he is by far the worst actor in the movie!
It has good suspense (mainly in the ending scene) and a good atmosphere, result of the really good cinematography.
This film has good acting (for the most part), good atmosphere, cinematography, suspense and it's overall a good movie. Check it out for yourself.