Airworthy - worth a rental/viewing

Rating: 8/10 (9 March 2017)

We live in Charlotte, where this ill-fated Airbus A320 now resides in an aviation museum adjacent to the CLT airport. I took my wife to see the mangled jetliner two years ago. She, not being from America, nor in America at the time of the accident, was not familiar with the January 15, 2009 water landing on the near-frozen Hudson River next to Manhattan.
When looking for a decent rental at our local Red Box yesterday, she asked if this movie (Sully) was about 'that' plane. I told her that it was, and we went ahead and swiped our debit card and took the DVD home.
I was expecting an average (5-stars-out-of-ten), solid, but probably not exceptional Eastwood-directed movie ... and was pleasantly surprised. We both found the acting to be superb. Hanks didn't 'overplay' his real-life, heroic-yet-modest pilot. I especially liked his reflective and anxious moments alone. Moreover, I thought that this movie was a fair rendering of the man, the gut-wrenching 5-minute flight, the media circus, and the governmental inquisition aftermath.
My wife scored it an 8.5 (she thoroughly loved it) and I gave it a 7.5 (maybe I'm too critical in my old age). Thus, 8 stars it gets from us. You could certainly spend $1.61 and two hours much worse.