Review of Flight (2012) by Breakingbrad — 24 Jan 2013

Flight is a film that should be commended for its bravery and how many risks it takes, and for showing that Denzel Washington is one of the most deep and honest actors in cinema. It has been about 12 years since we have had a live-action film directed by Robert Zemeckis, director of films such as Forrest Gump and Back to the Future, and he has returned with a triumphant film about substance abuse and lying to ourselves and others around us.

We are given a protagonist named Whit Whittaker, and he is a deeply flawed human being. I mean he drinks, he uses drugs, and he has lost his family because of it all. This man really has nothing going for him, and as the film goes on we see Washington dig deep into the role and make this one of the most mesmerizing and sad performances I have seen in a long time.

This movie is that kind of movie that makes you never want to drink alcohol again, similar to films such as Ray or Walk the Line, and it shows a man just go through hell because he has an addiction that he just can't stop.

But I actually felt some pity for this man as well, because we can tell at some level he is a good man and wasn't always like this, in fact he was a great father and great husband from what the movie shows us.

Zemeckis truly snows how to reach the core of his viewers and give them a truly remarkable film. I will admit that I wish I had seen more of John Goodman's character, and that they could've dug deeper into the stories of some of the passengers on the plane, but these are just small complaints about a fantastic film This movie makes you appreciate your own life and how some things in life might just be an act of God that we can't control.