A bit different from the trailer, but just

Rating: 7/10 (3 February 2014)

The story was interesting and worth telling, the people in it played well - indeed, it should have been a movie I appreciated. However most of the plot was spoiled by the trailer, leaving the film just going through the motions. The rest was the story of a man addicted to alcohol. In the end, none of the conflict between heroism and drunkenness that is implied in the trailer actually happens, they are just two different and simultaneous things.
Some questions are raised, perhaps, yet they are not technical, but about the personal experiences of the lead character, one that I couldn't empathize with. Had it been a film with a completely different backdrop, say a bus driver or a mountain guide or a teacher, the story would have been very much the same. So, then, I have to conclude that the plane angle was not that important to the value of the film. Then the slow pace gets you, the two hours and a quarter length.
To wrap it up, I felt like the movie was intended for people who already understand addiction and that I missed some important lesson from it because I didn't go through that myself in any severe manner.
Obviously it was a decent film, but not above average, I am afraid.