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.

The Bone Collector

Name: The Bone Collector

Genre: Crime/Drama/Mystery/Thriller

Cast: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Philip Noyce (Director)

Synopsis: Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) is a forensic expert who has written many investigative books and has been connected with a cop conviction. During a case in his past he got himself injured and now has become quadriplegic. Dr. Barry came to meet Lincoln and asked him about his request that is he still persistent for suicide. He agrees that he will help rhyme next week. A cab driver kidnaps a couple Alan and Lindsay Rubin from the airport who were about to board a cab to go home. Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie) finds the man near a civil war era railroad area. She sees a finger, a pile of sand, a note and a bolt near the track. See stops the track passing nearby so that evidence should be deteriorated and took photographs of them. The woman kidnapped before is being taken to some underground tunnels and then handcuffed to the underground pipes. Sellitto and Solomon visit Rhyme and ask him to help them in this case to which Rhyme agreed and hearing the description he said that it is a case of Kidnapping and ransom. He asks them that who has collected these evidences and which he came to know that a local cop named Amelia. He called her and asks her that she had natural instincts for forensics and asked her to assist in this case. She didn’t want to assist but her boss forces her that she had to do so as Rhyme has asked. Rhyme after going through in detail of all the evidences he had got sure about the area and asked Amelia to investigate the area having tunnels near downtown Manhattan. Killer was about loose about to loosening steam pipe’s bolt. It has come to even Lincoln’s attention that at 4pm at that area, steam is to be released through those pipes and asked Amelia to run and look for steam pipes near there. Amelia did hear some sound near the tunnels but till she reached her, she was fried by steam to death. Amelia sees the body of the women and runs from their as she couldn’t see the dead body. The killer leaves another clue as a piece of wood, hair clippings and a bone shard which the police took from there. Amelia ran from there but Lincoln was forcing her to tell more about the crime scene.

A student was being kidnapped by a cab driver as seen by his girl. The cab driver takes that kidnapped student to an abandoned place, bound him with chains and starts torturing him. After thoroughly observing the clues and evidences Rhyme tells the Police investigating team that they should look for old stockyards and slaughter houses. When they reached there they found that the boy is being bitten badly by rats. Amelia on this crime scene finds a matchbox, an old piece of paper and a chunk of flesh missing from boy’s leg. Cheney tells Rhyme that he is off the case but Rhyme tells the team to investigate the case and move ahead. Cheney finds who the taxi driver is through the finger prints but later on found that he is also dead. Ortiz, one of the people of the investigative team tell Rhyme about the homicide that has remained unsolved with flesh missing too and derives that the killer to wants to bring this to their notice but no one noticed it before as they all seems to be linked. Rhyme then suddenly start getting shocks and passes out. Amelia sees this and asked Thelma about this to which she came to know that Rhyme has asked for assisted suicide. After some time Rhyme wakes up.

A grandfather and granddaughter took a cab. A police officer stops the cab to check the cab’s papers but the driver shot the Police officer and moved ahead. Selletto reports this incident to Rhyme and Rhyme thinks that this may be their victim. Rhyme observes the clues again and asks Amelia to find a book called “The Bone Collector” in a book shop as he had read it before and thinks that the murders being committed here are almost same as they were in that book. In the book has shown, an old man and a girl are being tied to a post over the water. Rhyme links the smell coming from the old paper was of diesel from the refueling station on Staten Island. Amelia went there with the team and found both an old man and his granddaughter hanging from a post but in the water. The old man died but the girl survived. Amelia finds some clues near this scene where she finds a map, a bone and a piece of metal which almost looks like a part of cop’s batch. The map leads Amelia to a subway station where she finds an abandoned train whose number is 78499. She remembers that she had seen this number but don’t know where and tries to remember them and soon remembers that it is the same number as Lincoln cop’s batch number. Dr. Richard came to Rhyme’s house and kills Cheney and Thelma. He tells Rhyme that Rhyme was the very reason that he went to jail and he will kill Rhyme as revenge. Richard got his hand injured during the bed override mechanism activated by Rhyme. When Richard was about to kill Rhyme, Amelia came there and shoot Richard. On Christmas Eve celebration on Rhyme’s apartment, Rhyme meets his sister and niece with other colleagues and Amelia too came there for celebration with Rhyme now has dropped the idea of assisted suicide.

Review: A decent movie with an average performance by Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. It can be said that, the performance of Denzel Washington was a little above average but not more than that. The story of the movie is a great but the director couldn’t make it on the catch of the eye on the audience. There were a lot of twists and mysteries in the movie but the director couldn’t able to capitalize on the story of the movie as to be produced by the movie itself. Music of the movie was also an average one. What disappoints the most is that the story develops during the first of half the movie which makes you think that movie is going very well doesn’t relate to the climax the movie presented.   

Stars given: 2.5 out of 5.