aviation of uncertainty

Rating: 7/10 (14 April 2013)

Robert Zemeckis's first live-action movie in over a decade poses a moral conundrum: what if an airliner starts nose-diving and the pilot manages to land it so that he saves most of the people on board, but it later turns out that he was drunk while operating the plane (and had cocaine in his system)? Denzel Washington is the alcoholic, cocaine-addicted hero whose actions threaten his career. Zemeckis lays out the action very well, although I'd say that John Goodman's character is actually the best one in the movie. In the end, "Flight" isn't a masterpiece as much as a good look at the choices with which one is faced in a very unpleasant situation. It's the sort of movie that any ethics course could use to discuss moral conundrums. I recommend it.