After five years of stymied projects, Paul Greengrass has returned with something that should be right in his comfort zone: a fact-based drama set during a notorious disaster. It’s character-based and non-sensationalised, and politically tinged in its approach to the world. But this isn’t quite as sure-handed as usual, lingering on details that don’t add to the story and underselling some that do.

The film initially feels almost retro in its slow build, with ominous establishing shots of the arid brush and the tense hum of James Newton Howard’s score. You’d swear Greengrass was referencing Volcano or some other ’90s disaster movie, making a monster out of the wind itself. But then he and his co-writer, Brad Ingelsby, spend the next 45 minutes lavishing time and attention on the sorr

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