Hudson we have a problem........

Rating: 7/10 (1 December 2016)

On January 15. 2009, flight 1549 left New York but shortly after taking off an accident wrecks the plane's engines.
The titular Captain decides that the plane won't make it to the airport so he chooses to land in the Hudson River.
And even though none of the passengers were seriously injured, Sully finds himself under intense scrutiny by governing bodies, whose investigation reveals that the plane could have made it to the airport and one of the engines was still working.
Sully still maintains the engines were out and if they tried to go to the airport they would have crashed........
When you have an amazingly talented director like Eastwood, who rarely puts a foot wrong, and an amazingly talented actor like Hanks, who rarely puts a foot wrong when he isn't portraying a Dan Brown character, you would be forgiven for thinking that this would be one of the films of the year.
But even though Sulley is a gripping film, and has excellent performances from all, the high expectations this film has been carrying since it was green lit, leaves you with the feeling that this could have been so much better than the finished product.
Hanks' portrayal of Sulley is more about his physical attributes and facial expressions rather than his delivery of the script, he's at this strongest when he is silent, assessing situations, for example, when he goes into a bar and his face is all over the television.
It's proof that Hanks is a bonafide legend, and one of the greatest actors living today, and he embodies Sulley so much, you forget that you are watching Hanks.
But where the film falters is the money shot of the whole film, the landing and what precedes it. It just isn't as thrilling and as tense as it should be, and the fact that some of the CGI is amazingly flat, doesn't help the proceedings.
But the film is solid, and there are some scenes involving aircraft that must have. Been a risk for the studio, but their decision to allow the, in the film really pays off.
It's not the masterpiece many were expecting, but it's a solid enough biopic, with tremendous performances.