No Jet Lag In this One!!! Must See

Rating: 8/10 (2 November 2012)

Flight 2012 Robert Zemekis
Flight lands in theaters today and I just walked out of the theater on a high after seeing this modern day real life story. There will be no jet lag from this drama that portrays the main character "Whip" played by Denzel Washington with a performance to be talked about. Flight takes you on a journey about an addict coming to ties with his lifestyle and the need for the constant adrenaline rush and using substance to cope with life's trials and tribulations. . The story depicted closely resembles real-life events occurred in 2001, when Canadian Captain Robert Piche skillfully glided a fuel-less Airbus 330 to a safe landing, saving 306 passengers from a certain crash. Becoming an overnight hero, he quickly learned the other side of fame when a journalist exposed his long forgotten criminal past and private life. However the plane never flew inverted. The film mirrors his life story, not the events of the landing Robert Zemekis best known for Back to the Future, shows great use of symmetry between flying high in the air and needing that adrenalin rush, compared to getting high from chemical substances dealing with life. This is one of Robert Zemkis's first live-action movies since Cast Away as well as his first rated R movie since Used Cars. This movie has strong language, drug-use and sexual content, which is needed to show real life and what it is like to overcome drug addiction. Denzel Washington gives us an academy award performance from what I will think he will win over Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln. Although I feel Lincoln will probably take the best picture award this year, being directed by Steven Spielberg, Flight will defiantly be in the running. This may be the best performance of a drunk I have seen in a long time without the cliché slurring and stumbling over one's self. You can tell Denzel did his homework on how to play someone who just drank a case of beer and two fifths of Vodka. Flight is 2 hours and 18 mins long but you are glued to the screen from the very beginning and I even felt myself clinching to the seat as if I were on the plane itself. Flight shows the struggles and challenges of an addict and what can be lost from drugs and drinking. It shows how addiction will have its consequence without you even knowing it and that there will come a time when you have to come to grips with reality and stop lying to ones self. It is a movie of today and even has the first Iphone I have seen in a movie in a long time. I give this movie a 88 out of 100 based on my popcorn chart that I would like to start if anyone will give me a freelance job to review movies. I wish to one day have my own review in a paper such as yours with my own column. I am a recovering addict which I feel why this movie hit me so hard, but I am clean and sober now for 6 months and starting my new life. I would recommend everyone from all walks of life to see this and experience first hand the life of an addict, and what it can take from you, but untimely in the end its about what you can take from it.
Jeffery S. Klosowski Freelance Writer.