Flight Reviews
Cinema Sight
Not the most compelling portrait of addiction, but it's a satisfactory one.
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| Original Score: 3/4
3AW
The powerful pull of the bottle is conveyed with considerable force...The character fits Washington like a tailored strait-jacket, possibly because he's worn it before.
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| Original Score: 4/5
We Got This Covered
Robert Zemeckis boldly returns to live action with a soaring drama that exceeds expectations thanks to Denzel Washington's Oscar-nominated performance.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Birmingham Mail
If you've got the nerve, buckle up.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Matt's Movie Reviews
In John Gatin's script not only have Robert Zemeckis and Denzel Waashington found an outlet to profess their spirituality, but they also deliver some of their best work.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Flicks.co.nz
An extremely entertaining watch, if not a wholly empathetic experience.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Flick Filosopher
[E]nds up saying, [Expletive] those people who want more than a nice risk-free complacent ending.
Uncut Magazine [UK]
Zemeckis - who hasn't directed a live action film since 2000's Cast Away - shoots the film as straight as possible. But that's not to say it's without wit.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Crikey
In Flight Zemekis and co. have achieved something braver than the familiar "drugs are bad mmmk" chestnut, creating one of Hollywood's most vivid portrayals of a functional alcoholic character, and asking us not to judge him not by his addiction.
Rip It Up
There's no doubt that audiences used to him as Malcolm X or 'Hurricane' Carter will be appalled by the sight of him completely off his face.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Observer [UK]
Zemeckis generally sustains the tension, though the movie is overlong and the full implications of the drama are never fully confronted. But Washington is always there, a substantial antihero with a genuinely tragic dimension.
Irish Times
t is hard to think of a film as weirdly paced or as oddly structured as Robert Zemeckis's largely successful return to live-action drama.
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| Original Score: 3/5
This is London
Here, after the truly alarming crash sequence, there are no special effects, just deft and committed film-making, letting us see steadily in long takes.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Contactmusic.com
With another deeply committed performance, Washington brings badly needed complexity to what is otherwise a contrived, overstated drama about addiction.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sun Online
Thankfully, anchoring it all is Washington.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Mirror [UK]
It veers between wonderfully tense and grippingly intelligent and is brimming with a series of terrific performances.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Express
Some of the plotting is a little neat and simplistic but this is finely-made, adult filmmaking that makes you think.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Telegraph
However hampered it is by its own beery bloat, Zemeckis's film is morally provocative and bookended by genius; perhaps it is the first psychological disaster movie.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Guardian [UK]
Denzel Washington's natural gravitas seems all the more fascinating when tainted by sins and secrets in this tale of a functioning-alcoholic pilot.
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| Original Score: 3/5
ViewLondon
Watchable addiction drama anchored by an Oscar-nominated lead performance from Denzel Washington, though it never really tops its terrific opening half hour and it's at least twenty minutes too long.
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| Original Score: 3/5
