Tom Hanks is great, like always

Rating: Null/10 (20 December 2016)

Although this film got favorable reviews, it seems like many people were sort of lukewarm on it. It definitely didn't help that it reminded me of the atrocious Flight from a year years back. Maybe perhaps because of that I found this to be a very pleasant surprise. I do think some of the placement of scenes and transition from flashbacks to the present were a little awkward and disjointed, including the ending. It's not that the last scenes were bad, it just seemed like someone chopped off the last 15 or 10 minutes of the film and there's such an awkward fade-out that makes you really confused as to why anyone would choose to end it that way. Still, flaws and all I found this to be pretty absorbing and Tom Hanks is great, like he always is. A very nice surprise and I like how the film avoids being overly sentimental.