A complete throwaway movie

Rating: 5/10 (22 March 2014)

"Flight" appears to be some object lesson of great moment about drug abuse, addiction and coming clean. At this it utterly flops. The upshot of the story in fact casts doubt on any notion that substance abuse had anything to do with the crash, and cockpit brilliance truly saves the day. The Nadine Velazquez character was utterly redundant and non- contributory to plot elaboration, and the father-son reunion is nothing if not trite. The character elaboration of Whip Whitaker is not worth the trouble because he is not an interesting character at all. This movie is devoid of nuance, of richness, of subtlety, and instead settles for hackneyed truths won with a false sense of effort.