A movie that forces you to watch from another perspective.

Rating: 8/10 (30 April 2014)

'Flight forces you to view the safe crash from another perspective' that's what I summarised the movie with. In the first few scenes of the movie you see a drunk pilot saving a lot of lives, but still losing a few. My reaction immediately was: "What a great pilot, saving so many souls". The movie however, suddenly turns dark and forces you to view the crash from another point of view; from the dead passengers. Even though, technically, the plane was not in 'tip-top' state and not ready to be flown, the pilot wasn't in good state either. You, as a viewer, slowly start to realise the technical problem wasn't even the biggest problem: the pilot was. As the pictures start rolling by you realise that "the pilot wasn't great, he wasn't good." He pulled some nice tricks to keep most passengers alive, but still, putting so many lives at risk is even a bigger problem. The slow realisation, as you can call it, is one of the strong points of this movie. Even though I don't think Denzel Washington is one of the best actors there is, he did a great job with this film. An outstanding job.