A good film. NOT great. NOT awesome. NOT perfect. NOT his best performance.

Rating: 6/10 (24 December 2012)

I enjoyed this film. Really. But to place it as high as many reviews here do simply does not make any sense to me. When I go see a film I want to be entertained. It doesn't have to be simply random violence. It doesn't have to be full of sex. It doesn't even have to be a true story.
Without giving away any spoilers I find the film comes across with a very simple and overused formula. Man with addiction. Man causes death. Man struggles with addiction. Man can walk away from the incident without harm, but man decides to be noble at his own risk of harm. Quite boring actually.
Like I said. I enjoyed the film. It could have starred ANY other and even unknown actors and it would have been the exact same. The stars in this version did not add anything in particular that would make it memorable.
I am a big fan of Denzel, but his portrayal here is nothing spectacular as to when I compare it to most of all his other films. It was just fine.
Go see it, but do not expect the hype that this film seems to get.