Should have stuck more to the real story

Rating: 5/10 (1 February 2017)

The crash/rescue scenes were very moving, but the rest of the film wasted too much time on repetitive depictions of Sully's feelings in the aftermath (just one scene would have been enough to tell us that he's uncomfortable with the attention) and the completely made-up witch hunt by the authorities.
There was a lot of actual heroism among the passengers, and it would have been much better to depict that. One young man, for example, went back down the aisle to help the woman with a baby, and he pretty much carried them to the exit when she fainted in his arms.
Plus Laura Linney was utterly wasted as Sully's wife. She's far too good an actress to just perform endless variations of "Oh my darling, you did everything you could."