Sully Movie | Review, Story, Cast | 2016 New Hollywood Movies

Biographical Drama are all the rage in Bollywood in 2016, but have not performed that well in Hollywood this year, so far. Sully movie, starring Tom Hanks is scheduled to release on 9th September. With no mystery in the story and the outcome, performances of the actors, the writer’s take on the event, and the director’s skill make or break a movie based on a real life event.

Sully Movie Cast

With Tom Hanks on the screen and Clint Eastwood behind the camera, audiences can look forward to a riveting drama. Sully movie is based on the book Highest Duty written by Chesley B. Sullenberger the lead character in the movie.

Sully (2016)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney

Sully Movie Story

An experienced pilot and an ex US Air Force fighter Pilot boards the US Airways Flight 1549 with his co-pilot Jeffery Skiles. It is a routine flight, one of the many that Sullenberger has piloted over the years as he ferried nearly a million passengers in his flying career. But it is not.

The smooth take-off from New York’s LaGuardia Airport soon turns into a nightmare for passengers on board when a flock of flying geese shut off both the engines of Airbus A320 and stall the plane mid-air just minutes after take-off.

We cannot begin to imagine what must go through a pilot’s mind in these agonizing minutes as he sees the fast approaching ground and an inevitable crash. What do you do? Where do you crash the plane? Land full of buildings and people – how many will that kill? Water? Will that impact be lesser than the hard ground? How soon will it go under? Well, do you even have the control to steer the behemoth?

Thankfully, a trained pilot, a fighter pilot who must fly each sortie with a distinct possibility to not make it back is in the position to calculate the odds of survival much better than an average commercial pilot. We all know Sullenberger made a decision and landed the plane in the Hudson river – a decision later questioned by NTSB – and saved lives of all on board. But was it really a split-second decision? More importantly, how long was that split second when Sullenberger must have made innumerable simulations, must have mined all the knowledge from all his training, and must have made a firm, unequivocal decision to land the plane in Hudson river.

“There is something about the near miss like that makes you appreciate the life as you have it” ~ Clint Eastwood

Join Sully as he experienced these unique circumstances and arrived at a conclusion that saved hundreds of lives. The investigation throws up many questions and reporters look at the man behind the ‘wheel’. Right or Wrong, the incident is sure to become a case study for a long time.