Flight (2012)

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Flight is a great example of everything coming together- screenplay, characters, acting and special effects. This movie is about addiction and the main character who happens to be a pilot and a raging alcoholic. So bad is the situation that his wife has left him and his sons do not have an iota of respect for him. Also, he drinks on the plane- a plane he is piloting! The crash sequence is quite jarring and anyone knowing the work of Robert Zemeckis would know he is a master in creating realistic looking CGI sequences. This is a great scene but what follows is equally fascinating. The pilot is brought to the court in charge of manslaughter(he manages to save most but not everybody on board). Washington is great as the central character. Go watch flight to see a nuanced character study of a flawed individual.

Ok, pretty good. Sadly, as usual with these kinds of movies, there only seems one alternative for growing the heck up, and apparently that's religion. How about a movie that focuses on creating positive change that actually embodies fully responsibility and individual acceptance without leaning on something else... that would be a change.. Ending a serious addiction is a good theme for a film. Pushing religion at us throughout the entire thing is fairly cliché and boring. I could see it coming but really hoped we had something a bit more full bodied to go with.

This is by far one of the best movies iv ever seen. Any movie Denzel is in is good but this one is one of his best by far.

I feel this is one of the best psychological portraits of a drunk. And simultaneously I believe this is one of the best performances of Denzel Washington's entire carreer. I have seen ALL his films, from the eighties till now. This performance just makes me silent, in awe... I wanna advice the fans of other very popular Denzel Washington actionmovies to think twice though, because this is not a regular fun packed action movie at all. It is more suited for the arthouse movie lover, who is into subtle portraits of human shortcomings. This is an intelligent, slowburning movie with lots of room for dialogues. I love it, but the masses might find it boring.Denzel Washington's character is severely addicted to alcohol, but he is in full denial. While being drunk he shouts: "I choose to drink, because I dont speak to my wife and son anymore. But I choose to not speak to them anymore and therefore I choose to drink". Does this make any sense? To an alcoholic it perhaps does. Booze is harder to get clean of than many other harddrug, like heroin for instance. Booze is everywhere. Temptation to start drinking again lurks around every corner. Only the alcholic himself can decide to make a clean start. First he must acknowledge though that he is a drunk. Then he must have something to live for, when being sober. Otherwise the temptation to surpress the inner mental pain wont go away after being sober and will trigger another drinking rampage. And another..Director Robert Zemeckis isnt know for dramas at all. A few years later he made "Allied" with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, another great subtle portrait of deceit. And deceit is what lies beneath any addiction too, because one has to fool oneself into believing that drugs are the cure to make any pain go away.It does for the short term, that's why drugs are so evil, they lure you in with their promise of quick relief of any pain, but drugs slowly destroy your soul in the long run...I wanna give lots of praise for the soundtrack, editing, photography and direction. This is one of those dramas in which everthing just worked out perfect. Powerful and subtle. Evil and rejoicing. Doomed and hopeful. Those extremes come to mind, thinking about "Flight". I believe this to be the masterpiece of director Robert Zemeckis.In memory of Ed Limato (1936-2010)