'Flight' is a nightmare. It shows what happens when people who aren't emotionally or physically stable take on responsibility for other people's lives, and the repercussions of this.
Especially in the last few days it's a film very close to the bone, and can conjure up a tear in a way it would never have done 14 years ago.
Whip Whitaker has a serious problem with drugs and alcohol. Usually he doesn't let it interfere with his job as a pilot, but one morning after a particularly heavy binge he is involved in a plane crash that kills six people. It is only down to his quick thinking that he manages to save the others on board, and although he is initially hailed as a hero for this, it soon comes out that he is completely responsible for the other deaths.
A hard film to watch, but Denzel Washington always gives a fine performance and he doesn't disappoint.
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