Sad sad movie but an Oscar nomination I think is in place for Denzel

Rating: 7/10 (4 December 2012)

The movie starts off very well, with an epic sort of a plane crash where "Whip' played very well by Denzel Washington, he will have been snubbed if he isn't nominated for an Oscar for this movie, successfully crash lands a plane full of people, only six are killed, several injured, things could have been worse though as is pointed out in the movie. When the scenario is repeated in simulation, all 10 pilots who take the simulation fail and kill everyone on board, here's the catch....Whip was both drunk and high on coke when he landed the plane. The remainder of the movie is about that aftermath and from there some may say the movie tones down, some may even find it boring, but me, I thought this was a well-done film. It's Robert Zemeckis' first live action film since 2000's Cast Away, in which he really depended on one actor. Flight hangs on Denzel's performance, which is nothing short of Oscar-Worthy. It's his best work since 2007's American Gangster and The Great Debaters, both for which he was recognized at the Golden Globes but snubbed at the Oscars. Flight at first starts off like this will be a story of Whip's redemption, and it is, but it takes a long long detour getting there....Whip quits drinking and doing drugs immediately after the crash, but then he starts again upon finding out he is being investigated in the crash. Whip's relapse is worse than ever before and I for one was getting mad by near the end the movie because it looked like the movie was going to be all about Denzel beating a major alcohol and drug related rap and doing so in complete arrogance and presumption......however, Whip does the right thing in the end. Whip's alcoholism provides a diversion for the audience to what is inevitable, much like thew way it also diverts Whip from the inevitable if he does in fact do the right thing, that Whip will go to prison. Which is what makes Flight such a great but very sad, movie by the time it is all over. I had tears uncontrollably streaming down my fact at the climax of the movie. Flight draws you in, it draws you in to the messed up life that is Whip Whitaker's played Oscar caliber well by Denzel Washington.