Film Review – Sully

“Sully” has a fascinating challenge of dramatization to master, tasked with shaping a story out of 208 seconds of mid-air confusion. Especially under Clint Eastwood’s direction, there isn’t much hope for the film to command attention, with the helmer’s measured style at odds with the urgency of the potential plane disaster that’s inspired the movie. The saga of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger is admittedly thin for a big screen investigation, but Eastwood manages a healthy sense of tension and reflection to power the picture, emerging with his strongest effort since 2004’s “Million Dollar Baby.” Eastwood is traditionally careful behind the camera, but he wisely allows star Tom Hanks time and space to register every emotion in the book, delivering an outstanding performance that allows “Sully” to transcend its inherent oddity and become more than a surface investigation of media-fed heroism. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com