Tom Cruise carries the hell out of this film. Don't get me wrong, the story is incredible, but the camerawork is awful and I found it very distracting. There's a scene where they're in a diner and it looks like something out of The Office. Shaky, then zooming in on the person's facial expression. Other moments looked amateurish as well. On the contrary, the flying scenes were pretty great.

Most of the acting here is also pretty subpar, but I get a strong feeling that it stems from bad writing rather than bad acting. I've seen a lot of these folks in other films and from what I remember, they're pretty good. (Caleb Landry Jones, for example, is a phenomenal actor, and even his performance here felt off.)

Supposedly they were working with a budget of 50 - 60 million dollars. I gotta ask... Where'd it go? I don't see it. If you told me this flick was made with twelve million and change, I'd believe you.

I hate to be such a Debbie Downer, but yeah, a 7/10 almost feels too high. Had it not been for Cruise, I'd be putting this at a 5. So much potential here left untapped. I hate seeing these incredible true stories fall into bad hands.