Flight Reviews

The only thing Zemeckis could have done to make Flight more of a chore to sit through beyond its stunning opening sequence, have a kid kick your seat-back for the protracted remainder of the flick.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Goes out of its way to ask intriguing questions, and then goes out of its way to answer them in a pat, cloying manner ... That doesn't fly with me.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

If you leave after the first 20 minutes, you'll see a great nude scene and a harrowing plane crash without being subjected to the after-school special about alcoholism that comes later.

Full Review | Original Score: D+

A borderline farcical approach to addiction that's so heavy-handed it could be added to the weight program at a gym

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

For Zemeckis, Flight is still a spectacle, with Washington's ability to emote as the magical special effect. Instead of using it sparingly, he once again goes big. Too big.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

"God help me" cries Denzel, as he contemplates his ruinous addiction but it might have been better if he'd helped us by instructing Zemeckis and Gatins not to be so heavy handed in the religious symbolism department.

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Alas, director Robert Zemeckis opts for the least exciting arc - a voyage into the Days Of Wine And Roses.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A typically compelling lead performance from Denzel Washington buried in a muddled, overwrought story about addiction and redemption.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

FLIGHT stumbles along for a punishing two hours and twenty minutes, barely ever making any nods in the general direction of drama beyond the intense opening plane crash.

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Fooled me into thinking it was going to be smarter and more honest than it turned out to be.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

Denzel Washington flies a plane upside. But most of the time he's high on drugs and alcohol. "Flight" gets you through the door with the promise of thrills and chills. There are a few. But mostly it's just a crash-and-burn soap opera.

Full Review | Original Score: D

Despite Washington's monumental performance, Flight doesn't get enough mileage out of its addiction drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 59/100

The film sheds much of the life and complexity it shows in the beginning, devolving from a morally ambiguous story to a story all about its moral.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10

It has one amazing sequence in the beginning and a fine performance from Washington, but the way it deals with alcoholism is like a glitzy afterschool special.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Talk about your Hollywood endings...Flight could be held up as a textbook example.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Enjoyable in the Hollywood-popcorn fashion that director Robert Zemeckis is famous for - see "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," skip "Forest Gump" - "Flight" is a drama that would have been better without Zemeckis's kneejerk proclivity for cheese.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

John Gatins' script certainly has good intentions, but as we all know, that is what they used to pave the road to hell.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

A highly pedigreed Lifetime movie about a heroic pilot who's also a raging alcoholic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

While the film around him is generally cheesy and obvious, Washington is to-the-bone real.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

Flight isn't a bad movie, but it isn't a good one either.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4