Movie should be called Alcohol and not Flight

Rating: 7/10 (15 September 2013)

A good performance from Denzel Washington as the alcoholic flight captain starts with him having a sex scene with a 10+ bodied white prostitute, bushy beaver and all, and getting up in the morning for a couple of hits of liquor before he goes to work. Unfortunately, it's a shitty day and his 'plane soon flies into a nightmarish storm and develops problems that eventually, after a hair-raising few minutes that might put a few million Americans off flying ever again, Denzel is forced to fly upside down to try to rectify them. Finally, he wakes up alive and is rushed to hospital where, horror of horrors, he faces an investigation. There is a way out by blaming it his dead co-pilot, but he does not take it and confesses to alcoholism, getting a heavy prison sentence that will wreck his life. The movie is really about alcohol and not flight, and the title should really be changed. A good outing by Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis. It apparently made $60m profit.