Review of Pushing Tin

John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton along with Angelina Jolie star in this air traffic controller, relational drama that attempts to envelope for the excitement, thrills of intensity of the day to day landing of airplanes along with the strong backstory of the relationships and in this movie the quirky dynamics of interpersonal and marital turmoil. However, the movie is stretch thin with both its conventional as well as its edgy Thornton character. By the end, the movie's mainstream, cute ending seems to dull the independent film character. While a nice decent attempt, Pushing Tin isn't quite as sustained in its entertainment value as Ground Control (1998) with Kiefer Sutherland.