Besides just being a generally good time at the ****** — thrills, laughs, feels, the whole spectrum in 96 brisk-as-January-in-New-York minutes — Sully fills in two fundamental pieces of the story that, for all its round-the-clock news coverage, we only thought we knew too well.
Foremostly, it resolves the most frustrating thing about watching The Miracle on the Hudson unfold back in 2009: the improbable fact that we didn't get a view of the splashdown itself. Sure, there was some smeary security footage that came later, but to really appreciate the physics-defying precision required to keep that Airbus A320 from breaking into 1,549 pieces in the water, you need to see it up close and clearly. Read more...