Say it Isn't So

Rating: 5/10 (22 November 2013)

Wait, you mean I have to scrounge around for jobs, but other people get to make a living from this crap? Yes, Washington has a certain gravitas that worked well in this role. It's the only reason I made it through.
Unless you're just making a movie about nihilistic criminals like Reservoir Dogs, you have to give me a reason to care. Here we have some weirdo heroine-whore and a shallow drunk loser. We hear that he learned to fly in small planes on his dad's farm, yet he was in the Marines. Does this mean he was once a disciplined patriot or a naval aviator, or what? Do you want to watch a loser drink, pass out, fall down, and drink some more for over two hours? Then stay away from this clunker. There was one good scene with a cancer patient smoking a cigarette in a hospital stairwell. He gives a little perspective on life and does it memorably.
The worst cop out of this film and perhaps in film history, is waiting until the last scene to have a kid ask our mysterious character,who he is, and have him answer that he doesn't know. It's like telling us that the writer should be excused for the lack of character development, because the character doesn't know himself. Please.....
What could have saved this film, is if at least one time, the guy broke down and hysterically unleashed his guilt for a life ill spent.
I will admit that the initial cockpit scene had some decent intensity.