After a decade spent with cold marvels such as The Polar Express, Zemeckis is back to adult drama, giving Denzel Washington his meatiest role since Training Day, making a fine end to the New York film festival
When we first meet Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) in Robert Zemeckis's Flight, he is pulling himself from the wreckage of a hotel room decorated with minibar bottles, cigarette butts and the underwear of the flight attendant lying next to him.
This being a work day, Whip perks himself up with a line of cocaine, dons his captain's uniform, strolls down the walkway and straps himself into the cockpit of the passenger jet he is flying out of Orlando, bound for Atlanta. Things get a little bumpy along the way: his tailplane snaps, sending the plane into a nosedive, but Whip, by the same law that allows drunken sailors to walk in straight line on a keeling ship,...
When we first meet Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) in Robert Zemeckis's Flight, he is pulling himself from the wreckage of a hotel room decorated with minibar bottles, cigarette butts and the underwear of the flight attendant lying next to him.
This being a work day, Whip perks himself up with a line of cocaine, dons his captain's uniform, strolls down the walkway and straps himself into the cockpit of the passenger jet he is flying out of Orlando, bound for Atlanta. Things get a little bumpy along the way: his tailplane snaps, sending the plane into a nosedive, but Whip, by the same law that allows drunken sailors to walk in straight line on a keeling ship,...
- 10/15/2012
- by Tom Shone
- The Guardian - Film News
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