Flight "Crashes" With the Flight

Rating: 2/10 (5 November 2012)

If my husband and I had not been sitting in the middle of our row, we would have left. The flight scene at the beginning of the movie was incredible, but it pretty much stops there. It seems like Hollywood rarely cranks out really good movies anymore. Denzel Washington is as good as he can be in this role, but we found it hard to care about his character, and the movie did almost nothing to develop relationships; something truly key to any good movie. His character had one somewhat meaningful relationship in the movie, one which comes and goes virtually out of nowhere.
Never have I felt so "deceived", if you will, at what the plot of a movie was about. Any of the trailers you'll see pretty much focus on the flight and crash, but it's almost solely on the life of an alcoholic. It was so boring (after the "flight" ended)I felt like it was at one time a movie about an alcoholic and they added the "flight" scene to save the movie, literally, and added a good "70's" song and nudity to attempt to put the interest in. For the record, these are elements that do not interest me at all, but they seem to interest Hollywood, especially when there isn't really much of a story. I find it interesting that this film has the same director as Cast Away, which also began with a plane crash; but the movie wasn't really about the crash. At least in that movie, from the title alone, you had a much better idea what the movie was about.
The end is somewhat redeeming, although as I mentioned, it was hard to care much since you don't wind up caring for his character to begin with very much, not because he's an alcoholic, but because the movie pretty much thrives on his deprived state, and drags out his depravity. We got it,OK; he's an alcoholic!