Like watching a grandpa get bullied on children's TV

Rating: 3/10 (15 December 2016)

This film just didn't seem credible from the very beginning. Rule number one in screen writing is "show, don't tell". Yet the only thing Captain Sully, or anyone else for that matter, is talking about is their feelings.
It felt like I was watching a live action Disney Channel TV-movie with the obvious, over-acting bad guys, that are coming after the morally strong and extremely likable good guy for "no reason". They want us to root for Sully so bad, that they compromise the integrity of the film. Why does it seem like the two investigators hate Sully? Why do they want to crush him? And suddenly, after realizing the painfully obvious (that a human takes longer to think and execute than a computer), they love him and give him praise in a personal note. It just doesn't make sense. Every single piece of dialog in this film is overly pathos garbage. I found my self turning in my seat from the cringe worthiness.
It's clear that they wanted me to be moved by this film. They wanted it to portray humanity, and they might have succeeded; had the writer not been Todd Komarnicki, who did a job comparable to that of an intern staff writer on the Disney Channel.