Sully (2016)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger	Tom Hanks	½
Jeff Skiles	Aaron Eckhart
Lorraine Sullenberger	Laura Linney
Dr. Elizabeth Davis	Anna Gunn
Tess Soza	Autumn Reeser
Donna Dent	Ann Cusack
Mike Cleary	Holt McCallany
Charles Porter	Mike O'Malley
Ben Edwards	Jamey Sheridan
Michael Delaney	Jerry Ferrara
Doreen Welsh	Molly Hagan
Jimmy Stefanik	Max Adler
Jeff Kolodjay	Sam Huntington
Larry Rooney	Chris Bauer
Pete the Bartender	Michael Rapaport

Review

A somewhat world-weary Tom Hanks is playing real-life pilot hero Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, a man whose feat of saving the lives of 155 passengers and crew by landing a motorless Airbus A320 in the Hudson River is turned by NTSB into a question of why he didn't also save the plane by returning it to the airport. The problem with this film, which has a heroic and fascinating story at its core, is that it gets lost in back-room power-struggles and bureaucratic discourse, which not only is all too familiar in American films (powerful organization vs. powerful organization with protagonist stuck in the middle), but also smothers any nerve and vivacity that Sully has (the film, not the man, although it may be true for both).