Adapted from the book by pilot Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, this is a worthy re-staging of the events of January 2009. By positing the event and the eponymous 'hero' as ordinary people doing the extraordinary in exceptional circumstances, and by presenting it in a very non-sensational manner, the film comes across as surprisingly unimpactful. Disaster movie tropes are mostly avoided - occasional gentle music cues are used, a couple of passengers are given pre-flight 'background', the post-landing passengers are remarkably calm - but a commitment to consistent naturalism might have paid more dividends. Any film that top-lines Hanks, Eckhart and Linney already has a lot going for it, and all three are terrific here, but in dramatic terms the film has oddly little to say.
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