Flight

Movie: Flight

Genre: drama

Synopsis: Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) is a veteran airline pilot.  His skill as a pilot are unmatched.  This skill enables him to accomplish a seemingly impossible landing of an airliner after a catastrophic mechanical malfunction during a flight.  Unfortunately, Whip is also a lover of drugs and alcohol – and had used both the night and morning before the flight.  What ensues is the battle over whether he will be remembered as the heroic pilot or the criminally drug-user pilot.

My two cents: Another great Denzel Washington movie.  Denzel’s character is fascinating as he resists the idea that he is an out-of-control junkie.  As good as he was, I think John Goodman steals the movie as the Whip’s flamboyant drug-supplier. On a side note – I have long thought that the plane crash scene in Tom Hanks’ Cast Away.  The crash scene in this movie might just be better than the one in Cast Away.

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