After years of making performance-capture animated movies, director Robert Zemeckis returns to live-action filmmaking with the new drama Flight, starring Denzel Washington as a boozehound pilot who pulls off a daring rescue of his doomed aircraft. But no sooner is Captain "Whip" Whitaker (Washington) branded a "Captain Sully"-style hero by the media than the investigations into the cause of the crash threaten to not only derail his career, but also send him to jail.
Despite Zemeckis delivering a plane crash set-piece as frightening as the one he crafted for Cast Away, Flight is not an aerial drama (although I did get a kick out of a video tape of Top Gun, another Paramount pilot movie, sitting on Whip's desk at one point). Flight is a story about an alcoholic coming to terms with his affliction and facing up to the lies and destruction they've caused to himself and others. There's a religious element to the movie -- something that's also a component of Alcoholics Anonymous -- which leads to a lot of heavy-handed discussion about fate and God's will.
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