Overall a well formed dramatic biographic film.

Rating: 7/10 (6 December 2016)

In the biographic film, Sully, director Clint Eastwood pays tribute to pilot Chesley Sullenberger, the man responsible for the "miracle on the Hudson." Tom Hanks, a renowned actor plays the role of Sullenberger well and respectively. The plot focuses mainly on the events that took place after Sullenberger's historic landing with the investigations focusing on the investigations that took place afterwards.
Overall, the film presents a fantastic take on the untold story behind the events that unfolded on January 15th 2009. The pace of the film proved to be excellent through the use of flashbacks to give insight on the plot occurring during the present. Emotionally, the film proves to be quite the drama with scenes of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression eating away at Sullenberger. Despite the investigations against him, Sullenberger persevered through the setbacks that appeared against him, and as an empowering character, he captures the audiences heart.
Although the dialogue in the beginning gave me a shaky feeling about the writing for the film, it eventually became a well written screenplay that captured the emotions needed for the drama. Tom Hanks takes center of the film with his phenomenal acting as Sully. By meeting with the real life Chesley Sullenberger, Hanks obviously was able to adapt to the emotions needed.
My only problem with the film would have to be the abrupt ending. It felt forced and was cliché with the fade to black ending. All of the emotion throughout the film built up towards the end, but for what? Between the fantastic cinematography, special effects, editing, and emotion, the film deserved more closure at the end to create a powerful ending.
Undoubtedly, both Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks worked together to create a unified film describing the event that occurred on January15th 2009. Through post-traumatic flashbacks of the plane potentially crashing into New York to the constant stress over being fired due to an investigation gone wrong, emotions drove the movie into becoming a dramatic biographic film.