Flight (2012) Movie Review

FLIGHT (2012) MOVIE REVIEW 

The movie started with a bang, but ended with a bigger one. With Hollywood greats like Denzil Washington, John Goodman and Don Cheadle, you would expect this movie to attain a few Oscars for it's worth. However, although it was nominated, it only won the nominations.

This terrifying believable story revolves around Whip Whitaker (Denzil Washington) who is a drunk and relentless alcoholic who somehow happens to be a fully qualified pilot. After a big night with a flight attendant, who is on the same plane (Nadine Velásquez), they and everybody else on the plane crash due to what Whip is arguing was a failure in the plane's engines. While in the hospital, he befriends a drug attic named Nicole (Kelly Reilly). Throughout the movie, him and her begin to form a relationship, which as we all know in these types of movies, can lead to alot of drama and arguing. Although for the most part the plot is great, many people (including myself) though that Denzil's character was not likeable as he is often rude and is a straight up drunk. Besides this however, the story is fine for the most part.

One thing that must be mentioned is the crash at the beginning of the film. This is easily the best part of the movie as it shows off some rather impressive visual effects (this is shown off even better once the plane is upside down). There is more to this 140 mins ride as there are scenes that will often make you astonished and at other times, there are scenes that will make you angry, confused, happy and every emotion in between. Even though it managed to cram all these emotional scenes into one movie, it could have been cut down alot, at absolute maximum 2 hours as towards the end of the film, it started to drag on alot and mention characters that (at least to me) showed off very little emotion. 

As for the script, it was one of the best all year (so good in fact that it has the second best of the year, with the best going to Django: Unchained). Every word that came out of someone's mouth was just so beleiveable and John Gatins (Writer) did a very smart thing where he used every day language and use words that people would use without themselves realising it.

The acting was great, every actor managed to almost nail their assigned character spot on. Special notice should be put out to the main three men in the film, Denzil Washington, who played a beleiveable drunk, John Goodman, who played the good friend alongside Denzil and Don Cheadle who played Denzil's lawyer. All three of these men were great in their respective roles and stole the show in my eyes.

Although it is overrated due to the at very small times, poor acting and a not very likeable main protagonist, it still is a great film and defiantly  worth a watch sometime, just make sure you prepare for a long ride... 

 RATING: 6.5/10