Flight

Flight

Rating 6 out of 10

Denzel Washington is one of my all time favorite actors.  He has made a few bad movies but has never been bad in a movie.  Denzel is great in this movie.  The movie for me was just okay.  I was hoping for great.  It's basically a movie about an alcoholic that happens to fly planes.

Denzel plays airline pilot Whip Whitaker.  Right off the bat we see Whip in a hotel room after a long night of drinking and drugging and sex with one of the flight attendants.  He gets out of bed, does a line of coke and puts on his uniform to head out to the airport to fly 106 souls from Orlando to Atlanta on a very bad weather day.  He has done this many times and thinks he has it under control.  Mechanical problems with the plane sends it into a steep dive that certainly will kill everyone on board.  Whip pulls off a miracle and saves all but six on the plane.

Problems start when a blood test after the crash show Whip was very drunk while he was flying the plane.  This is a bad thing.  He can go from hero to serving jail time in a heartbeat.  He needs to clean up his act in a hurry. We get to see the demons of a person with a bad drinking problem.  Some people find this more interesting than I do.

One cool thing about the movie is much of it was filmed in the Atlanta area.  One of the main characters lives in the Georgian Terraces apartments.  I put the roof on that complex several years ago!

As I said some may like this movie more than I did.  At just over 2.5 hours I think it could have been 45 minutes shorter.  Denzel is very good as you would expect and keeps the movie moving along.  Sadly another movie that would be better saved as a dvd rental.