Awful

Rating: Null/10 (2 June 2013)

This is an awful film. Why couldn't a good lawyer have suggested that the two vodka bottles were opened prior to the suspension of the bar service? They were ordered by a customer. Then the bar service was suspended and the bottles and contents discarded. It could then have been argued that the .17 blood alcohol level of the dead stewardess was therefore unexplained. Perhaps she had a drink in the airport bar? This would have saved her relatives embarrassment and prevented the need for another lie from the central character. This is only one of many flaws in this film. Since when does cocaine not make someone's nose run? Could anyone put in a formal appearance in that state? Why was the hotel room door not secured? Couldn't they have paid someone to sit with him through the night, after spending tens of thousands on the legal work? Or given him a sleeping pill and got him to the hearing in a reasonable state?
Because the film had so many flaws - including the fact that aircraft being flown inverted is at the remotest edge of possibility - I found it unwatchable. . To play around with and sentimentalise alcohol abuse and forget that all legal successes involve some degree of lying, unknown factors and 'no comment' is to portray the central character is very different from the everyday person when he is in truth behaving rationally. A reasonable outcome which was satisfactory to everyone could have been achieved by the lawyer.