Up up and away

Rating: 7/10 (29 November 2012)

It is amazing to me that you can take a chunk of metal, mixed in nuts and bolts and attach some engines and you can fly pristinely across the sky. More importantly are the pilots that guide these crafts through the air. Flight is quite a movie, it chronicles the self assured pilot Whip Witaker (Denzel Washington) as he takes the controls of a typical flight from Orlando to Atlanta. Along the way, the flight hits some turbulence and begins a free fall. Whip keeps the calm and uses all his skills to guide the craft. The scene is riveting and I caught myself closing my eyes, is it going to crash or not? After the big event the investigator come in and seek a scapegoat, was the incident caused by mechanical malfunction or pilot error. This movie is full of suspense and is one hell of a ride.