Flight
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Starring Denzel Washington and Nadine Velazquez
Rating: B-
This movie wasn’t as action packed
as I thought it would be, but that’s not to say that I didn’t like it. I did a
little research before heading to the theater and from the pre-release reviews
I believed the movie would have a lot more flight scenes with Denzel Washington
at the controls drunk. Washington was drunk and high a lot during the movie,
but the plot line follows the fall out from a deadly plane crash that
Washington maneuvered. His expert piloting was never called into question as it
was reported on many times that no other pilot could have landed such a
disaster of a plane with such little loss of life. However, the theme of the
movie is the pilot’s alcoholism and the denial of his problem as he spun further
and further out of control. The film was on the long side, but you wouldn’t
know it after sitting in the theater seat the whole time. The story is engaging
from the first minute to the last. The acting is strong as Washington’s
character teeters between drunk and sober and manic and depressed.
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