Would Have Been a Great 45-Minute Film

Rating: 6/10 (6 January 2017)

Disappointing. By exaggerating the evil of federal agencies & including too many of Sully's "nightmares" that could have happened to his flight, Eastwood scratched out a feature-length film of 1 hr. 36 min. The scenes of the actual disaster are wonderful, but you can palpably tell where he's padding-out scenes & scenarios to stretch it out. A little very good movie within a so-so feature-length film. I was worried about this movie when it came out--it had generally good reviews, but I could tell from what I read that Eastwood resorted to what seemed to be flabby scenes, and so I waited till it came out on DVD.... And lo and behold! What I feared turned out to be true. Great in parts, flab in too many others.