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Cast : Tom Hanks, Laura Linney, Aaron Eckhart
What was it about?
The story of American pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who heroically landed a troubled aircraft full of passengers on the Hudson River
My two cents:
Since Eastwood had a big box-office success with āAmerican Sniperā, he decided to once again tell the story of another American hero. Well, even though āAmerican Sniperā was quite popular, to be honest, I actually didnāt care much for this movie and I thought that this story was actually much more interesting. Still, I didnāt really like the approach they chose to tell this true story. Basically, the tricky thing was that the crash and the rescue altogether didnāt even take an hour so they had to add some stuff to reach a decent running time (eventually, it was still only 96 mins and the shortest film directed by Eastwood). Eventually, they tried to focus on the fact that Sully was, at first, blamed by the NTSB of reckless flying but, even though it might have been true, it didnāt result in something really interesting. Indeed, what the guy did was just simply amazing, he saved everyone for crying out loud and it felt like a waste of time to spend so much time on the NTSB arguing otherwise.
My rating: 6/10
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