Expected Better

Rating: 6/10 (14 February 2013)

At the beginning it was like watching two different films... One about a plane, the other about sleazy women with drug problems who make porn for drugs. This was an absolute put off. The very first scene is of Washington laying in bed with a naked whore. This had no relevance to any of the film whatsoever and I couldn't help but think that the directors just threw that in as an extra thing to have in their film... nudity. I did not once think that I would be going to see a film so heavily full of alcohol, sex and drugs... There are more scenes of alcohol than the plane! Also, during the film, Washington has to have a walking stick due to his injuries... In different scenes he has it then it magically disappears. In all fairness I believed that the film would be about a flight that went wrong... Instead I watched a lot of hardcore drug use, alcohol abuse, sex and profanity. The film was good but lacked substance and as a result I found it to be quite shallow for the first forty minutes. However, after the first forty minutes were up the film started to merge its story lines together and it ended better than expected. A lot of the film was predictable but nonetheless there was some great acting and special effects in this film. Flight is nothing to shout about. The most thrilling part of the film is when the plane starts to lose control... I was clutching onto my chair! Very realistic but somehow I don't think it would be quite as possible in reality :) six out of ten.