Purely a movie about addiction: Very boring movie if alcoholism doesn't affect your life.

Rating: 5/10 (24 December 2012)

After seeing the previews for this movie, it seemed like it was billed as a suspense/drama, with intrigue. Let me tell you that it was none of these things. Flight is a movie about addiction/alcoholism for people with addictions, people in AA, and people in Al-anon or living with addicts. It is nothing more and nothing less.
As movies about alcoholism go, it was as good as any and probably better than most, and if you have ever had this problem or lived with someone who did, you may enjoy it, but don't think for a moment that this movie is about anything else. it is not an action/suspense/intrigue/thriller or anything of the sort. It is a profile of an alcoholic dealing with his alcoholism. The story is exactly the same as every movie on the topic that came before it; only the character's names and jobs have changed plus the budget and actors are bigger.
If you do not have issues with addiction and addiction is not a part of your life, I expect you will find this movie as boring as I did, except for the few minutes in the beginning where the plane takes off and crashes. Don't let the previews fool you into thinking that there is some kind of intrigue with the damage to the airplane; there is not. A screw stripped its threads and that's it. The whole big secret was the alcoholism.
So, I think a lot of people will love this movie, but I am writing this review as a cautionary tale to those people whose lives are not affected by addiction, so that you do not waste over two hours of your time, as I did, watching another movie about an alcoholic who finds redemption.