Flight

[chelle1973]

Saw this tonight at Odeon Wester Hailes....wasnt the best film i have seen, bit boring in parts! That said i do love Denzel Washington in anything!! The first 30mins were good & John Goodman should have been in it more! laughed out loud @ the Cee Lo comment! Amazing how alcoholics cope through day to day life without people noticing!! The screening was about 80/90percent full

6.5/10

[David]

This is really good. Admittedly there are one or two odd choices [spoiler]Snorting the coke before the 'inquiry' at the end felt uncomofrtable on a number of levels[/spoiler]but overall I thought Denzil Washington was excellent and it was a really interesting drama.

[jojojoanne]

Saw this tonight at Greenwich Odeon. I thought it was a great film! Cinema was packed.

[TheBoySeggy]

Good opening 25 minutes (although the opening scene served no purpose to me). Good final 25 minutes... everything in between was below par.

I saw nothing to see how Denzel got a Best Actor Oscar nomination - and I'm one of his biggest fans.

5/10. Flight never quite took off for me

[Beate]

Well that was a bit of a wasted evening. Luckily we didn't have to queue in the cold as we were arriving a bit late then had to collect our premiere tickets from the W Hotel, then grab a quick burger at McD and eat it so by the time we got there it was nearly 10 to 7pm. The one lovely surprise was that our seats were excellent, high up in the circle, and I could wave to valda from there. It took forever though to start, I know that that's always the same with a premiere but it's still annoying when you have to sit around and wait, with nothing but a water bottle to occupy your time. It finally started at 7.35pmish after a short introduction of cast and crew who weren't really allowed to say anything. I had seen Denzel and whatsherface Reilly on the red carpet but they always shoo you past so quickly that you can't grab a proper look.

The film - I hadn't expected that at all. I thought it would be a catastrophe film about a flight that went wrong, coupled with a bit of courtroom drama. Instead we got a drawn-out drama about alcoholism. It was so long, slow and dragged out, I looked at my watch constantly. Also, the sound wasn't very good and it sounded like everyone was mumbling. Couldn't understand some sentences and was mystified as to why other people started laughing. Also, as funny as John Goodman was, his scenes just did not fit with the rest of the film for me.

And to top it all off, I lost my lovely big red-brown scarf in the cinema. I was half-way down the stairs when I realised and raced back immediately, but it had gone. I made an usher look and checked that no one had handed it in but nothing. Wrote my details on a piece of paper in case it still turns up but not expecting much tbh. Which kind of person takes another person's scarf from a cinema without trying to find the owner or handing it in at Lost and Found?

I'd love to see Denzel in a Q&A tomorrow, but I can't sit through this again. Also, I haven't got any more scarves to lose.

5/10

[Horseknight]

Went to a packed showcase and waited until 6.55ish to get in!!

About the film, all I can say is that I am glad I didntn p*y to watch this. And I think there were excessive drug scenes.

[raj101]

Started strong, with the flight sequence and a drug using pilot shocker. The film started to peter out after that and I found myself nodding off, so I left just before the end, sorry! It just seems the wrong way to make a film if you ask me, starting with a huge bang and then whimpering away for the rest of the movie. Think Eastwood's Hereafter, and how slow (admittedly thought provoking, but slow) that was after the initial tsunami opening sequence.

Denzel looks suprisingly good but should keep his shirt on, his chest now hangs down around his love handles! Or perhaps it was weight added for thespian effect, I dont know. Hes a very good actor in my book, and if there wasnt a partial colour bar to some roles (which appears to be lifting now) then he'd have been perfect for dozens of A list star roles. The special effects were strong with the crash, but were not reflected in the cabin where very little turbulence seemed to result (apart for the bit with Denzel's crazy stunt, I wont say what he did!).

[stuartboy]

I'm afraid this went from Flight to shight in the space of 25 minutes. It was almost as if they blew the budget on the SFX and then realised they had another hour and a half to pad. It became immensely boring to watch and I'm sure the drug-taking scenes could have been implied rather than detailed. It was particularly graphic when John Goodman was giving explicit drug taking instructions. If you didn't know how best to take coke before you will now. On another issue, how miscast was he anyway? He was like a comedy role in his own little film that was completely unrelated and totally out of context with the mood of the actual film. He was more like a cartoon character. He might as well have been Yogi Bear.

I'd give this 9/10 for the first bit and 5/10 for the remainder.

[Beate]

I'm afraid this went from Flight to shight in the space of 25 minutes. It was almost as if they blew the budget on the SFX and then realised they had another hour and a half to pad. It became immensely boring to watch and I'm sure the drug-taking scenes could have been implied rather than detailed. It was particularly graphic when John Goodman was giving explicit drug taking instructions. If you didn't know how best to take coke before you will now. On another issue, how miscast was he anyway? He was like a comedy role in his own little film that was completely unrelated and totally out of context with the mood of the actual film. He was more like a cartoon character. He might as well have been Yogi Bear.

I'd give this 9/10 for the first bit and 5/10 for the remainder.

I completely agree. Take this blurb:

In this action-packed mystery thriller, Academy Award winner, Denzel Washington stars as Whip Whitaker, a seasoned airline pilot, who miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on that plane?

Action-packed: maybe at the beginning but then the story ground to a halt. There was no mystery. There was never a mystery as to his boozing and what happened on the plane, it was all shown in detail. Reading that blurb, you're forgiven to think that you are in for an exciting ride - not so.

And yes to everything about John Goodman - completeley out of context with the rest of the story - this really should have been cut.

[McG]

I was really looking forward to Flight but now I'm not so sure . . . I think Denzel Washington is a great actor and thought he couldn't do anything wrong Oh well, I'll still check in for the "flight" and go along for the ride