Review 397: Sully

Sully is a truly brilliant bio-pic, one of Clint Eastwood's best films and a showcase for another brilliant performance by Tom Hanks.

Based on the memoir Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow. On January 15th, 2009, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger (Tom Hanks), captain of US Airways flight 1549 is forced to make an emergency landing on the Hudson River, in which all 155 passengers and crew survive with only minor injuries. Sully is hailed a hero by the press, but the incident leaves him with PTSD and the ACARS launch a full scale investigation into how the crash occurred.

The plot is fantastic. It's a brilliantly told story of heroism about one man who made a an impossible choice. A choice that was enormously risky and could potentially endanger many lives and the fact that he actually pulled it off is unprecedented and a testament to his courage and bravery

Clint Eastwood's direction is superbly precise, the cinematography is beautiful and captures of the beauty & prestige of 2009 New York, the production design is brilliantly sleek, the costumes are terrific, the score by Eastwood, Christian Jacob & The Tierney Sutton Band is the make up is rich and fantastically detailed, the locations are fabulous, the flying sequences are outstanding: Clint Eastwood really makes us as an audience feel the weight and the movement of plane    the stunt work is just jaw dropping, the way the emergency landing is shot, crafted and  is astounding

The acting is simply superb, Tom Hanks absolutely nails the role of Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger

Aaron Eckhart

Laura Linney

Anna Gunn

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The Anonymous Critic.