Review 397: Sully
Sully is a brilliant biographical drama, 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. It's about how Sully could be seen as a hero to some and The screenplay by Todd Komarnicki has a simple but effective through line of At the time this miracle happened, people were afraid that they needed that sense of optimism.
The media scrutiny that Sully receives as a result of his actions is overwhelming for him and puts pressure on him and his family. What are the reporters going to ask him? What's he going to say? It hugely impacted his day-to-day life.
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 The prospect With over 40 years of flight experience under his belt of His plane was damaged and he made a judgement call. It's so surreal for him and he has trouble separating reality from "whatever the hell this is" as he puts it. He saved 155 lives that day and yet he doesn't feel like a hero, he sees himself as just a man who was doing his job. "The right man for the job at the right time" as an interviewer puts it. Sully may have saved the lives of his passengers, but in doing so, he and his family lost their old lives. He just wants his old life back, he tries to resist the H-word, he doesn’t want to be looked as a hero.
Aaron Eckhart (rocking that mustache) is terrific playing Jeff Skiles, the co-pilot & first office of the flight 1549.
Laura Linney is also playing Sully's wife Lorraine. She was at home in California looking after her's and Sully's daughter when the crash-landing happened so she had no idea what was going on until she received a phone call from Sully She learned very quickly what had happened because it was all over the news Linney manages to turn the role of a stay-at-home wife and turn her into fully fledged three dimensional character that feels like an integral part of the narrative even when she isn't.
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 The prospect With over 40 years of flight experience under his belt of His plane was damaged and he made a judgement call. It's so surreal for him and he has trouble separating reality from "whatever the hell this is" as he puts it. He saved 155 lives that day and yet he doesn't feel like a hero, he sees himself as just a man who was doing his job. "The right man for the job at the right time" as an interviewer puts it. Sully may have saved the lives of his passengers, but in doing so, he and his family lost their old lives. He just wants his old life back, he tries to resist the H-word, he doesn’t want to be looked as a hero.
Aaron Eckhart (rocking that mustache) is terrific playing Jeff Skiles, the co-pilot & first office of the flight 1549.
Laura Linney is also playing Sully's wife Lorraine. She was at home in California looking after her's and Sully's daughter when the crash-landing happened so she had no idea what was going on until she received a phone call from Sully She learned very quickly what had happened because it was all over the news Linney manages to turn the role of a stay-at-home wife and turn her into fully fledged three dimensional character that feels like an integral part of the narrative even when she isn't.
Anna Gunn
Holt McCallany, Jamey Sheridan (whom you may recognise from TV's Homeland & Arrow), Mike O'Malley (whom you may recognise as Kurt's dad on Glee), Michael Rapaport, Jeffrey Nordling, Chris Beaur, Sam Huntington, Max Alder & Autumn Reeser round out the films eclectic cast
Sully
The Anonymous Critic.
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