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****
Dir: Clint Eastwood (12A, 96 mins)
Tom Hanks is effortlessly excellent once again, in 86-year-old Eastwood’s retelling of the shocking landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2008. Hanks plays the captain of that flight Chelsey Sully Sullenberger, whose decision not to return to the airport when his plane started to fail, saved the lives of 155 passengers on board and possibly hundreds of others. The film allows us to horrifyingly witness the possibilities of that happening as the event is retold from different perspectives throughout its lean running time, including Sully’s imagining of what could have happened. Following the event, Sully is forced to justify his actions to the National Transportation Safety Board much to his ongoing anguish. The cast are excellent, Laura Linney does wonders as Sully’s wife, Aaron Eckhart backs up Hanks as his co-pilot and Eastwood as ever tells his story directly and grippingly.
Opens Dec 2