fluglotse1

I don't know where to begin. I was a controller in both Tower and Radar (in three different countries) and even dealt with a hijacking or two. The radar controller, in a dark windowless room clears the airliner for takeoff. Ridiculous. The baggage screener getting called away at security and the passengers just keep moving through to their flight. The controller speaking to the aircraft as if each controller handles a specific aircraft and not the airspace. Some of the shots of ATC screens seemed realistic enough but not much more.

The producers could have hired one controller and one pilot as technical advisors and this might have been more watchable for me.

Had this not been a true story, I would have rated it at least a star lower.

A guy from a hillbilly background with bad family history, including a drug addicted mother makes something good out of his life. Glenn Close and Amy Adams are wonderful. Everyone else - how did anyone ever put them into a movie? Are they related to the producer? Probably. A well-trained Labrador shows more emotion than any of these fakes.

I was ready to turn this movie off. It's a period piece. Cromwell's in charge, the King was executed and a brutal war recently ended. I was bored. I would have rated it a 5, but the solid acting brought it up to 6.

About two thirds of the way through, there is a plot twist or two which were quite unexpected and gave the movie a bonus star. Try to stay until the credits run, as there is an epilogue which makes me now question if the movie was based on a real person.