Great and Moving Movie Despite Inaccuracies...

Rating: 7/10 (10 January 2017)

I"m not one for besmirching Sully Sullenberger, the man saved one- hundred fifty-five lives that day he was able to use his experience to land safely in the Hudson River. The man is a hero. But while an excellent movie, I have to take an exception with it.
I never got around to seeing this movie while in theaters, so I had to rent it recently. It was interesting to see things from afterwards from the perspective of our hero. Cool and calm when the situation demanded it, but haunted about what might've happened, what he might've done differently. Usually when someone does something positively that's news worthy, that's all we hear about and then the news moves on. No one usually knows how, whatever the situation is/was, effected the individual afterwards.
But the exception I have to take is the NTSB being made to be the villain. I mean I guess you have to have a villain for their to be a movie, otherwise what's your hero going to fight or campaign against? The villains role should've been the birds the plane ran into, but their birds, they didn't strike the aircraft out of malice or ill intent. So you've gotta find a villain in order to make your movie. That's the NTSB. The NTSB did it's job, they investigated the accident - looked things over, ran some simulations and agreed with Sully that it was the best outcome. But the movie deviates from Sully's book, from the NTSB's investigation and makes them the villain needlessly.
The audience would've been better served with a documentary style piece, but they don't normally translate to big budget films. Guess when the story doesn't fit your intentions, you fudge the story. Which is why I'm giving it a seven out of a ten.