Gracie Mae's Reviews and Writings :-): Movie Review: "Sully" 09/02/16

This is a movie review for "Sully", first released September 2, 2016 at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, USA. We watched this on April 19, 2020. The reason we watched this movie was because we had seen the news about the incident where there was a plane landing on the Hudson River back in 2009. This movie is based on that incident.

Genre: Biography, Drama

Run Time: 1 Hour and 36 Minutes

Official MPAA Rating (According to IMDB.com):

G / General Audiences

PG / Parental Guidance Suggested

PG-13 / Parents Strongly Cautioned

R / Restricted

Not Rated

Trailer

Notable Cast

Tom Hanks ... Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger

Aaron Eckhart ... Jeff Skiles

Valerie Mahaffey ... Diane Higgins

Delphi Harrington ... Lucille Palmer

Mike O'Malley ... Charles Porter

Jamey Sheridan ... Ben Edwards

Plot

A lifelong career pilot goes to take a normal flight from LaGuardia (New York) to South Carolina. Right after take off, however, there is massive failure. They lose engine power. How can they find a way to save all those on board? How can they find a way to not crash into the buildings as they had no power?

This is based on a true story. This also deals with the aftermath of the incident, the investigations, etc.

Rating Criteria

0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.

1/5 – Barely worth any time.

2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.

3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.

4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.

5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.

4/5 - *SPOILERS*

This is a very good movie. I never got information on the actual landing aside what was on the news. It was interesting to see what actually happened and the interrogations/investigations that the captain and co-captain had to go through. Of course, there would be that kind of thing after the fact, considering the fact that the Hudson River landing was one of the first successful water landings without any engine power whatsoever. And the fact that it happened within two minutes of take-off was very interesting. I would definitely suggest this movie for those that like biographies or movies based on real life.

I knocked down the rating only because they fragmented the telling of the story so much that it made me wonder what was past or "future". If they had put it merely chronological, then it might have been easier to understand, but that wouldn't make it as interesting to some viewers, right?

Check this out. This is an actual video of Captain Sully's recollection of the incident. (Makes me cry to hear his story...)

"Captain Sully's Minute-by-Minute Description of the Miracle on the Hudson"