Contrived, fictitious, unreal, and ingloriously political

Rating: 2/10 (12 August 2017)

This film is simply filled with claptrap, and right-wing nut job claptrap at that. The juvenile rendering of the NTSB agents as cartoon character villains is a disservice of all those who try to protect the skies from airplanes deprived of their correct servicing and from terrorists as well. The film clubs the viewer over the head - or at least tries to - with the notion that the government and the media are evil, out to get heroes like Sullenberger. Abandon government regulation, the film cries out, led by the film's "hero," the near senile Clint Eastwood, with his Fox News-rendered illusions. What is most disappointing on an emotional level is the unreal rendering of the man Sullenberger himself. As Hanks plays him, he has not a shred of a personality, is nothing but a stoic, jaded, unhappy misanthrope, which the real Sully isn't, as is seen at the end of the film, when he is actually shown smiling with his former passengers, something - smiling, that is- that he doesn't do throughout the entire film. Tom Hanks and Laura Linney should be ashamed: the nadir of their careers.