
Whip Whitaker is a commuter airline pilot. While on a flight from Orlando to Atlanta something goes wrong and the plane starts to fly erratically. With little choice Whip crashes the plane and saves almost all on board. When he wakes up in the hospital, his friend from the airline union introduces him to a lawyer who tells him there's a chance he could face criminal charges because his blood test reveals that he was intoxicated with alcohol and cocaine. He denies being impair... (Full plot summary below)
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Whip Whitaker is a commuter airline pilot. While on a flight from Orlando to Atlanta something goes wrong and the plane starts to fly erratically. With little choice Whip crashes the plane and saves almost all on board. When he wakes up in the hospital, his friend from the airline union introduces him to a lawyer who tells him there's a chance he could face criminal charges because his blood test reveals that he was intoxicated with alcohol and cocaine. He denies being impaired, so while an investigation is underway, he is told to keep his act together. However, letting go of his addiction is not as easy as it seems...
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| Projection BoothRob HumanickOne would be foolish to expect anything less from one of our great humanitarian mainstream artists. |
| Cinemalogue.comTodd JorgensonDespite a strong lead performance from Denzel Washington, the uneven redemption tale stumbles down the stretch and ultimately fails to soar. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertThe film tackles serious issues of addiction, legal intrigue and personal responsibility, with Denzel Washington in top form as a heroic yet morally compromised protagonist. |
| Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonA movie that resonates deeply. Its moral autopsy of a crash and its aftermath of butt-covering and blame-shifting is ideally suited to our time. |
| New York TimesManohla DargisFlight is freakishly real; it's one of those big-screen nightmares that will inspire fear-of-flying moviegoers to run home and Google car rental deals and Greyhound schedules. |
| HollywoodChicago.comBrian TallericoAn adult-oriented drama that is so consistently entertaining and fascinating that it plays like a thriller even if the thrills aren't produced from traditional devices but from the sense that you're watching masters at work. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsFlight is exciting - terrific, really - because in addition to the sophisticated storytelling techniques by which it keeps us hooked, it doesn't drag audience sympathies around by the nose, telling us what to think or how to judge the reckless, charismatic protagonist played by Denzel Washington. |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldIn Robert Zemeckis' "Flight," we watch a master actor play a character who's always acting. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertNot often does a movie character make such a harrowing personal journey that keeps us in deep sympathy all of the way. |
| AALBC.comKam WilliamsAn instant screen classic destined to be deemed among the very best of Zemeckis, alongside Forest Gump, Back to the Future and What Lies Beneath. |