Oh how I wanted it to be good

Rating: 3/10 (12 December 2012)

Flight takes the real life crash of an Alaska Airlines plane and turns it into a story about alcohol and redemption.
The fiction is hard to take. It is not possible to control a plan with the jackscrew snapped and the elevator pushing down - which is what happened with Alaska. But Denzel pulls it off, you watch.
Aside from the complete unreality of the plane "flight", the movie just lags on and on. In a way, this movie promotes drug use. It says cocaine is good for recovery when you're on a major beer and hard liquor binge. Imagine someone watching and trying that theory out for real - and losing.
I also couldn't figure out why a heroin addict (they are everywhere in film and TV these days) was at an AA meeting. Last time I checked, heroin doesn't let you do anything but more heroin. Like I said, this film, quite possibly, is a promo for drug use.
To sum up, it's hard to like the character here, and when you don't like him, it's a bad sign. I really wanted flight to be good, but it wasn't for me. 3/10.