A Real Hero....vs. little paper pushing people......

Rating: 8/10 (9 September 2016)

This movie is engrossing and deserves a high vote.
It is based on true events, when a passenger plane needed to make an emergency landing in a city lake. Without doubt the hero of the event was the planes captain.
Believe it or not there are a lot of people especially world wide who never heard of the events portrayed in the movie as at the time it was a sensation all over the planet.
At first I was puzzled as to why the movie makers instead of putting the attempted plane landing at the center of the picture, concentrated on the awful bureaucrats from the airline safety board who were it seems trying perhaps unfairly to find the captain at fault.
However my research suggests that from the perspective of both the captain and co-pilot they felt they were being investigated in such a way that if they could be blamed for what happened, they would be; hence the movie takes the point of view of the captain and co-pilot.
Both the attempted landing and the investigation are certainly compelling viewing.
The lead actor gives a fine yet restrained performance.
Even if the decision to land on the lake was not the only alternative the captain is a Real Hero.
All in all, I give this picture 7 and a half, rounded up so:
8/10.