Rather average

Rating: 5/10 (31 January 2019)

The story of the pilot who successfully landed his damaged passenger plane into the Hudson river in New York, saving the lives of every person on board, is a great one. It's made good books and good documentaries, I'm sure. As for a feature film, I'm still not convinced, having just watched SULLY. This is a Clint Eastwood movie in which Eastwood seems on autopilot and largely disinterested in the material; there's none of the heart of LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA here. Tom Hanks does his usual nice-serious-authoritative role as the hero of the hour, making the best of it as only he can; the film's fragmented narrative doesn't work all that well, and the use of dream sequences and the like is a bit of a cheat. There's also some surprisingly sloppy CGI work that had me feeling like I was watching an Asylum film at times.