Unbelievabely bad

Rating: 3/10 (29 April 2013)

I cannot believe this movie gets above 7 stars. I am a HUGE fan of Zemeckis (Contact was really an awesome piece, not to mention some other memorable ones), I quite like Washington, and I am fond of airplane movies. Regarding the aeronautical side of the story, the accident is simply unrealistic to say the least; plus, the script takes for granted that the audience doesn't understand anything about anything to do with planes, physics, flying and so on. So why bother ?
A crash investigation is not conducted like shown in the movie. Who cares, right ?
Let us admit that, the plot and some of the characters (Goodman) are mere caricatures that I laughed in a few occasions.
The religious insinuations, the idiotic ending and the heavy handed addiction problematic made me wonder how such a good director, a gifted actor and so much money could be wasted on this kind of projects. But, hey ! Looks that a lot of people liked it !
Good for them. Even better for the Hollywood mediocrity factory.