Strangely unconvincing

Rating: 7/10 (10 December 2016)

Tom Hanks aces his portrayal of the eponymous Captain 'Sully'. His number two isn't bad either. As for everyone else? This is where you'll lose any sense of 'reality'. There are plenty of extras in this movie, its just a shame some of them, the majority of them in fact, have no sense of what 'acting' requires. These people neither inhabit the roles they have nor seem to appreciate what it is to be in a crisis scenario. Lots of hamming and flapping all to no good effect and productive of nothing more than pantomime on film. Script is partly at fault but Eastwood's direction must also be called into question. A worthy attempt at depicting a dramatic event. Just a shame it misses the mark.