Big Disappointment after an Awesome Beginning

Rating: 2/10 (15 December 2012)

If Oscar's had a category for a best start in a movie, Flight would make the all time short list. And after the first 15-20 minutes, it is all downhill (pun intended), filling no promise it had committed, moving from one story to another, never deciding what it wants to be at the end, but shooting off not quite subtle messages/discourses all along the way. The tempo falls, every next scene becomes predictable, acting becomes extreme to save a bit of the catastrophe, clichés run on top of one another. And in such long, slow moving movie, there are still bits and pieces left untold. Actually you realize in afterthought, what you perhaps hoped a pinch of thriller added into movie was just simple, humor error, without which this movie could not come to an end, which itself was a lame message.
Gosh, this is simply one of the big disappointments of 2012.