Though its competently constructed, the film places more emphasis on the uninteresting aftermath than the actual 'miracle landing' itself.

Rating: 5/10 (2 December 2017)

Though the source story makes for an interesting anecdote and the real life 'Sully' certainly deserves the praise being thrown his way, this move adaptation feels entirely unnecessary given that the true events it is based upon can be wholly recapped in about three minutes primarily because that's just about how long they actually took, and where the feature makes its first misstep is in placing more emphasis on the ensuing investigation than the actual 'miracle landing' itself, assuming that its audience will actually doubt for a second whether or not the protagonist pilot made the right call when he chose to (totally successfully I might add) place the lives of his passengers above the monetary value of the plane he was flying; so what you end up with is a piece that gets its main event over with within the first few minutes and then revisits it a number of tension-less times, including once more in full during the finale with no new information added seemingly to stretch the run-time to that all important 90-minute mark, before battering you over the head with a corporate investigation to which the results couldn't mean less from a character standpoint or an emotional investment one either - it's simply competent film making but nothing more, thanks mainly due to the fact that its story isn't really as suited to this medium as it is to filling a lull in conversation, but even then its a little too late to be bringing it up now. 5/10