Flight Soars!

Rating: 8/10 (2 November 2012)

I am usually very hard on Denzel. His roles are boring and the same characters each time and he plays each of them the same way each time. Put aside "Glory" which he was great and "Training Day". And then his political affiliation was not desirable.
I think Denzel or his manager may finally be getting it....Denzel made a statement many years ago that he would not do any intimate or romantic scenes with a woman of another race. He stuck to it for many years but it lessened the staying power of some of the movies, i.e. "Pelican Brief". "Flight" and the scenes added to the movie, so that we could see how deeply he was in his alcoholism. He is a good actor and he did well in this one. I don't know if the statement is "he is back"...but it may be more apropos to say he or his manager/agent have learned what it takes to make a whole movie. Flight was a little long, but in looking at each part I can't see what could have been edited to shorten the movie.
My only issues are; there seems to be a disconnect with his drinking and the flying of the plane versus the actual issues.
Yes it is absolutely not acceptable that he should drink, be drunk or high flying or driving any thing. In this movie, I fault the Air Traffic Controllers. Shouldn't they have known the weather was that bad and not allow the plane to take off?
Secondly, 40 minutes before it lands, "he tells us later, the plane comes apart in mid air" this is when we the audience thought all was clear with the weather..maybe there should have been scenes of a botched maintenance inspection, this part was a little disconnected.
I love the music score and I would be remiss if I didn't say "Mr. Don Cheadle" in this and as always is a great actor! and again he proves that in Attorney role. "Flight" may not get Denzel another award but its relatively entertaining.