Sully: Review

• Here's a NON-Spoiler review. Last night I finally got to see Sully, my first movie in a month. This movie was really really good, I enjoyed it a lot. Let me get the obvious out of the way, Tom Hanks is remarkable as usual. Tom Ha is shares my favorite actor spot with Harrison Ford. So saying that Tom Hanks was really good in a movie is kinda cliche. I love Tom Hanks. He can make me almost cry at the dumbest things. He is awesome.

• So let’s talk about the story. I’ve been looking forward to seeing this movie. the trailers looked really good. I knew little bit about the real story. I remember seeing it on the news the night before we had a flight the next morning to Disney World. And I really love Tom Hanks as I said, But my biggest worry going into this movie was how we were going to be shown the plane crash. I was worried that it was going to be in chronological sequence, that we were going to see the plane crash and then he was going to be questioned and that was going to be the movie. But what I was hoping for was that it was going to be intercutting between the past and the present. And that we would see him being questioned and then we get pieces of the flight and then towards the ending we were finally going to see the crash on the Hudson.

• And that is mostly what it was like. They did intercut between the past and present, but I think it moved a bit too quickly to the crash. The crash happens and it's unexpected in that moment during the movie, which made it just a little bit more underwhelming than I had hoped for. It's possible the crash would have been a bit more riveting if the movie had been longer by maybe showing more of Sully's personal life and giving us some more time to build anticipation for the crash. But I really did enjoy the flight scene. I just wanted a little bit more out of the actual touchdown on the water. That’s pretty much my only complaint, Except for the music. I really didn’t like the music in the movie. I found it extremely generic and cliche.

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• The movie has great dialogue and good cinematography. I really enjoyed Aaron Eckhart. He played the co-pilot. I thought he brought a lot of the humor and I really enjoyed his acting more than I did in The Dark Knight.

• Something that a lot of people including myself were thinking when they saw the trailer was that the movie was about Sully being in trouble for drinking while piloting the plane. That made a lot of people worried that it was just going to be another version of Flight starring Denzel Washington. That is not true at all. The questioning wasn't about his drinking. His drinking was brought up one time in the movie.

• I went into this movie having never seen a movie that Clint Eastwood had directed. So I had no idea if Clint Eastwood directing this movie was going to be good or bad. I actually really enjoyed Clint Eastwood’s directing. He did a great job at capturing what it would be like watching this crash happen. This is a plane flying really close to NYC and landing on the Hudson. If we were actually watching that it would be HUGE and breathtaking and I really feel like Clint Eastwood captured that very well. And those scenes are definitely incredible. Some of them made my stomach hurt just thinking about being on the plane.

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• I like how the filmmakers understood that people are going into this knowing that the plane crashes. It’s not like some true story movies where they try to surprise you with something that you know already is going to happen. He did a great job at making me care about the character of Sully. I really liked that character and the way the audience got to know him.

• Another thing that Clint Eastwood did that I really liked is that he made the passengers actual characters that you got a little bit attached to, and we got to see their perspective of the crash. The passengers and the rescue team and all these people surrounding the crash actually had flavor to them. And the movie really needed that.

• Sully is one of my favorite movies of the year so far. So I definitely recommend seeing this movie in theaters, especially in IMAX if you can, before it leaves theaters.