Movie Review: Sully (2016)

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Hello All,

    Sorry for lateness on this one. It’s a mixture of a weird day, and I also got held up on twitter with a bit of a rant. Anyways, back on topic, do you remember that the miracle on the hudson happened in 2009? Yeah, neither did I. I also honestly thought that the Denzel Washington movie Flight was inspired by it. Truthfully for me, this was a blip for me on the cultural landscape. So the fact that they were going to make a movie about it, to me at least, brought up a lot of curiosity in the sense of what they were going to do with it. So what did we get? Let’s find out together shall we?

Plot Summary - On January 15 2009, United Airways Flight 1549 crash landed in the Hudson river in New York. The film follows captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) and the subsequent investigation into what happened on that fateful day.

Pros - The cast is great, and the story is both well told and well paced. It’s a good looking film, and it does a lot to focus the story more on everyone involved in the accident and the following investigations.

Cons - This is really hard to word properly, but the thing, for me at least, this is really the type of film that is really worth seeing only once. With a film like this, one of the things to think about is the longevity of its popularity, and while there will be people who might really like this film (to which I say good on you, glad you like it) for me I can’t really picture myself going out of my way to see it again anytime soon.

Final Score - 7/10

It’s certainly a film worth watching, but more than once I leave it up to you.

Next: I will mostly likely catch up on Light Between Oceans, because the rest of the films this week do not look stellar…….

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