Aghast as I was to be greeted by a female full frontal within 20 seconds of tucking into my popcorn, it was in fact the characters, not the content that really let Flight down for me. Sure, the film does drag in places, and at more than two and a quarter hours it is a little over-long which seriously doesn't help, but the biggest downer in the whole thing is in fact the lead character, which despite taking the shape of Denzel Washington, takes more than a fair amount of effort to like even remotely. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your perspective), that seems to be nothing to do with Denzel's acting, which as usual is brilliantly solid, but does mean that it's rather a trial to keep caring. That, and with yet more gratuitous shots of injections proving yet again that Hollywood cares little about those of us with trypanophobia (yes, that's a real thing), Flight fails to really make an impact in quite the right way.
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| Director | Robert Zemeckis |
| Cast | Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly, John Goodman |
| Length | 138 mins |
| Post Credits Scene | No |
| TFC Mash-Up | Take the first disaster from Knowing, add the boring legal bits from Jack Reacher. Season with a few brief moments from United 93. |
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