Hanks delivers quality, Eastwood delivers old man Hollywood clichés

Rating: 6/10 (30 March 2017)

This is a great story and Hanks and Ekhart deliver strong performances, and that really should be enough to make a great movie but sprinkled throughout it are cliché shot after cliché dialog. Sully jogs, and 'thinks', almost getting hit by a cab driver who delivers a cliché cab driver line. Lot's of cliché 'thinking' shots cos we've got to know that Sully is 'thinking'. It just comes across as uninspired obvious film making and we should be seeing better from Eastwood and whoever wrote the script. Eastwood and script writer also choose to manufacture confrontation when in the original story it wasn't there, showing they fell short on the skill and ability to tell an exciting story about decent good people doing good things in difficult situations without making stuff up. Artistic license is in how you tell the story, not the details of it. Maybe it's time Eastwood retired to day time telly making,