Review: Flight
Both Flight’s director Robert Zemeckis (Cast Away) and headlining star Denzel Washington (Training Day) are known for their Academy Award-winning dramatic turns. Together, they clearly hope Flight will earn them such praise yet again. Washington makes the strongest case for award-season gold, giving us more of a character than his past few roles.
However, the film as a whole, while entertaining enough for one viewing, is nothing more than decent; a lengthy, repetitious movie than assumes it is of high quality, but puts forth little real effort to achieve such ambitions. Like last year’s The Iron Lady, the film Flight features a good performance unfortunate enough to be delivered in a mediocre film. As a side note, John Goodman (Argo) is, as he is in almost everything he does, a phenomenally entertaining addition to the cast.
The Final Word: Wait to rent it.
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