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<\/a><\/p>\nDirector: \u00a0<\/strong>Robert Zemeckis The flight is destined to be a troubled one.\u00a0 After steering the plane through a turbulent take off that is rattled by stormy weather, the engine malfunctions and Whitaker is forced to make an emergency landing.\u00a0 When the plane begin to nose dive, he steadies it in spectacular fashion by flying the plane upside down.\u00a0 It’s a feat so audacious that you wonder if its based on a true story.\u00a0 I googled it.\u00a0 It’s not.<\/p>\n As Whitaker navigates the plane towards a paddock to make an emergency landing, he clips the steeple of a church in a literal symbol of the salvation he so badly needs from his demons.\u00a0 When the planes crashes to a halt, over a hundred lives are saved and just six are lost.\u00a0 He is hailed in the press as a hero but as an investigation is launched into what went wrong on the flight, Whitaker knows it is only a matter of time before his addiction and condition during the flight are uncovered.<\/p>\n Flight<\/em> is the long awaited return to live action films for Robert Zemeckis, the man who gave us Forrest Gump<\/em> and Back to the Future<\/em> but has spent the past decade doing children’s animated films.\u00a0 And with the opening scene of Flight<\/em>, its clear he’s definitely back in adult film territory, perhaps gratuitously so.<\/p>\n As for the film’s central conceit – should we forgive a man’s transgressions if he ultimately does good and saves peoples lives? – it is a pretty cut and dry proposition in my eyes.\u00a0 Of course Whitaker deserves to be punished.\u00a0 He is flying a plane while drunk and high!\u00a0 The fact that he saves the plane in such acrobatic fashion does nothing to mask his gross misconduct.<\/p>\n
\nWriter: \u00a0<\/strong>John Gatins
\nCast: \u00a0<\/strong>Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Don Cheadle, Nadine Velasquez<\/p>\nW<\/span>hip Whitaker is an airline pilot with years of experience, a cool head under pressure and a chronic drug and alcohol addiction.\u00a0 In the opening scene of Flight<\/em>, we see him having sex with a crew member, snorting a line of coke for breakfast and then heading off to the airport to pilot a 747.\u00a0 He swigs some vodka on the way.<\/p>\n