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| Roger Rabbit probably did a better job than Denzel in Flight |
Ground control to Denzel, here's why we are panning this flick:
- Because the crash should have occurred at the end instead of the beginning; it was fairly anti-climatic the way it worked out.
- Because having a crotch-close up in the first shot of the movie doesn't lend a lot of credibility to it.
- Because no human being could drink as much as Denzel's character and live.
- Because Denzel makes a truly awful and unconvincing drunk.
- Because a British actress playing a Southern crack-ho doesn't come off as very convincing.
- Because movies ought to a have a plot.
- Because the movie can't decide whether it wants to be Cheech & Chong or Days of Wine and Roses. Talk about sending mixed messages - it's wrong to drink but it's ok to be a super-cool coke head?
- Because they wasted a lot of talent. Denzel, John Goodman and Don Cheadle (who looked as though he wished he was anywhere else but in this movie).
- Because it was predictable - we knew exactly what Denzel would do for most of the movie including the big "surprise" confession during the hearing. Know why, because the movie was one giant cliche.
- Because an inside look into the porn industry is just one of several bizarre and meaningless redirects tossed into a movie that seems as though it was made up as they went along.
- Because only playing 3 to 5 seconds of really cool popular songs is annoying and none of that coolness rubs off onto the movie.
- Because making fun of people on chemo isn't cool.
We're thinking of suing the airline over our lost $31 dollars. This was a movie that was supposed to be about a heroic pilot but turned out to be about a silly alcoholic. At the very least, Denzel and Bruce Greenwood got a chance to catch up as this might have been their first project together since St. Elsewhere (a real show). Although Bruce and Denzel share 20 minutes on screen and seem to have the rapport of two strangers sitting in a waiting room, so who knows. And what was with the crazy religious co-pilot and his wife shouting praise Jesus - another wacky misdirection which led nowhere. Do yourselves a favor and don't book passage on Flight. Heck even the name of the movie seems to forewarn us that the makers of this dud wouldn't know originality if it fell out of the sky and crashed on top of them.
