The movie opens the morning after the crash in the Hudson River. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) awakens from a nightmare of crashing his plane into a building. Soon thereafter, he has a meeting with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which is standard after all crashes. Though Sully is celebrated in the press as a hero for having successfully landed the disabled airplane in the Hudson River, the NTSB proves to be less impressed and think he needless ditched the aircraft. Computer models show that he could have made it back to LaGuardia.
I had expected a movie that opened with a bunch of people boarding a plane followed by a dramatized crash and rescue, and then maybe the aftermath; the usual disaster movie stuff. This is more of an after action report that reconstructs the events. The contentious NTSB turns this into something of a court drama with Sully trying to save his career and reputation. The real NTSB is disappointed by the negative and inaccurate characterization of them in the film. The movie is a character study, a mini biography, of Sully in the wake of the crash and one cannot but be impressed.
Great movie and thumbs up!
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