Denzel gives an awesome performance in a movie that feels like it doesn't have much of a middle, but the bookends are pretty fucking awesome.
Nadine Velazquez, of My Name Is Earl fame, opens the movie buck ass naked in all her glorious glory. Then we get an absolutely riveting sequence involving a drunk Denzel trying to land a plane that has gone all goofy.
From there the movie sort of....I don't wanna say meanders, but it just feels like stuff put in to bridge the gap till the last act, especially the relationship Denzel forms with Kelly Reilly. It just doesn't feel organic.
But there are enough good scenes in the middle to make it worth sticking around for the 3rd act where Denzel is once again his masterful self.
It's a good movie that doesn't quite have the sizzle to become a great movie, though Washington gives it his best shot. John Goodman is also fantastic in a very limited role.
So yeah, Flight never reaches the stratosphere, but it's a fun ride none the less.
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