Flight (2012)

Name: Flight (2012)

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, Don Cheadle, Robert Zemeckis (Director)

Synopsis: Captain Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) of an airline wakes up in a hotel room in Orlando and was feeling very sleepy and with the affects of Drugs and alcohol still there. He boards his flight South Jet Flight227 as pilot. After a little turbulence disturbance and seeing the condition of Whip, Co Pilot Evans takes control while Whip mixes Vodka with juice takes a nap but suddenly wakes up after a massive jolt felt in plane. Seeing aircraft was going in steep down Whip starts giving instructions to Evans and lead attendant Margret and Whip gives instructions to roll aircraft upside down so that aircraft could be streamlined and become stable. During this incident Katarina in saving a child passenger lost her life. When Nicole was being taken out by paramedics from her home, she saw Flight 227 overhead upside. One of the engines of the plane fails and during that Whip realizes that he will not be able to land this on runaway so he with all his experience and knowledge makes a landing of the plane on Open filed in Clayton County, Georgia but during that bumping landing he lost consciousness and later on being taken out by a passenger.

Whip later on wakes up in the Atlanta hospital with some injuries. Charlie Anderson a friend of Whip and represents Airline’s Pilot Union told Whip that he was able to save 96 out of 102 people on board and 6 of them died as well out of which 4 were passengers and 2 were from Crew including Katrina. He also meet Nicole in hospital staircase and she promised that he come to meet him after that leaving the hospital. Later on Charlie and his attorney Hugh Lang (Don Cheadle) tells him that when he was unconscious in hospital NTSB performed a drug on him and which he was found intoxicated and that could send him to prison and alcohol, drugs charges. Hugh tells Whip that he will able to void the report on technical grounds but he has to take care of himself and he shouldn’t do anything stupid. Whip hearing this becomes angry and leaves from there.

He seeks out of for Nicole and finds her while she was having a tough time with her landlord but Whip gives him sound money and asked him not to pursue her again. Later on both of them become intimate. After attending the funeral of Katarina he meets Margaret and tells her that NTSB is on him and may ask her for testimony on that day. He asked her that she should tell them that everything was fine on that day and the incident our due to airplane technical problem but not by his drinking habit. He later on meets his co-pilot on that day and find that Evans is serious injured with both his legs and pelvis being crushed. Evans told that he knew that how you were drunk on that day but later on told that everything happens due to god will and its God’s will that he is here and he told that he will not tell NTSB anything about him being drunk on that day. Later on he with a bottle in his hand seeks out Nicole to go with him and they will leave this place and after being asked the true reason he told that he is afraid that NTSB is on him and his carrier will be destroyed due to that. Whip and Nicole had a fight during that Time. On next day when Whip was looking for Nicole, he reads a letter from Nicole and he came to know that she has left him and being in rage he destroys some there collective belongings and starts drinking again.         

Whip went to his ex-wife and his son but there too an argument broke between him and his son and he went from there media surrounded him and starts asking him questions but Whip somehow manages to get out of there as well. He went to Charlie and asked him to let him stay with him tell the NTSB hearing and he vows not to drink again. Before one night of hearing Whip was shifted to heavy guarded room in a hotel. At night his door starts banging and he finds his next door is unlocked. Next day when Charlie and Hugh came to his room and saw that Whip is fully intoxicated with beverages and they don’t know what to do. They call Harling to revive him from that intoxicated state to make him ready for NTSB hearing using cocaine. As the hearing starts Ellen starts explaining that the main reason of the crash was damaged jackscrew. She reveals that two empty bottles of Vodka was being found in the investigation of the plane. One of the crew members was found positive in the toxicology report and that was Katarina. Now Ellen asks Whip about his opinion that whether she has taken that Vodka. Whip on repeatedly asking same question couldn’t harm the good image of Katarina admits that he was the one who had drunk that Vodka. He is a regular alcoholic person and he had drunk on that day as well.

After 13 months he was telling his story to fellow people in jail and told him that he can’t say just one more lie which could let him walk out of that investigation unharmed but admitting truth on that day he feels free. He tells them now that he is a sober man and he is trying his best to maintain his good relations again with Nicole, his family and friends. In jail his son comes to meet him. He asks him to help him on a collage essay “The fascinating person you have never met” Whip asks him Ok. His sons starts by asking him question “Who are you?” to which Whip replied “That’s a very good question”.

Synopsis: One of the all time best movies of the Robert Zemeckis and Denzel Washington. An effortless and flawless performance given by Denzel Washington. Robert has brought the true direction which depicts the pin point. Story was absolutely brilliant and how it is directed was even more appreciable. Rest of the cast also good but more of the focus was given on Denzel’s character and he lived up-to that expectation damn well. Denzel performance in the movie has shown why this movie was dominated for Oscars for best actor although he didn’t won but his perform hell good. What makes this movie a whole different from rest of the others is the story which is quite different and as per the character Denzel brought his best performance suited to the character. This is a must watch movie for everyone and especially for those who are diehard fan of Denzel Washington.

Stars given: 4.5 out of 5.