Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Flight, dramma tradizionale su un pilota alcolizzato, che non riesce mai a trovare la sua cifra, il suo ritmo, dopo la prima straordinaria mezz’ora, che pone le premesse per un secondo ed un terzo atto, che non arriveranno mai.
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Luke Bonanno @ DVDizzy.com
- Excerpt: We won’t ever know whether the move to a variable field narrowly deprived Flight of a Best Picture nomination, unless the Academy one day makes their old voting numbers public. What we do know for certain is that Flight is among 2012’s most substantial and best-received films.
- Christopher Bourne @ Twitch
- Excerpt: Flight is crowned by a riveting and nuanced performance by Denzel Washington as the troubled character at its center.Unfortunately, where Flight fails to soar is in the areas beyond performance and special effects, where it disappointingly succumbs to the pitfalls of mainstream Hollywood convention.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: Minor cinema lifted up on the shoulders of one of the year’s best movie star turns.
- Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: Character study about a veteran pilot whose skills in a disaster make him into a hero but whose alcoholism sets him on a course of self-destruction.
- Enrique Buchichio @ Cartelera.com.uy [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Una buena película que toma elementos del cine catástrofe y del drama judicial para describir el camino de redención de su protagonista. Denzel Washington es, de hecho, la principal excusa para verla.
- Sarah D Bunting @ Tomato Nation
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Samuel Castro @ Ochoymedio.info [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Robert Zemeckis convierte a Denzel Washington en el mejor de los vehículos que ha manejado en su carrera
- Bill Clark @ FromTheBalcony.com
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The film begins with an almost giddy sense of recklessness mastered by Washington’s spot on performance of perhaps the ultimate functioning alcoholic before settling into a story about facing addiction that is sprinkled with too many untethered spiritual references.
- Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: …one gets the impression that the effects-inclined Zemeckis would rather be directing more technically oriented scenes like the crash.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: This is not an ambiguous portrait of a man; it’s a schizophrenic one.
- Dustin Freeley @ Movies About Gladiators.com
- Kimberly Gadette @ doddle
- Excerpt: Flight flies high due to Washington who rescues the film twice, as both the fictional hero and as the superb actor, etching a character awash in palpable guilt, denial and helplessness. He is Sky King, circa 2012.
- Panagiotis Gkaris @ Movies Ltd
- Excerpt: It is more than apparent that Mr. Washington is right on the apogee of his wonderful career. In total control of his expressions, emotions and kinesiology.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Intense and serious, it redefines ‘flying high.’
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Appears to poke, and not kindly, at how our society enables abusers of drugs and alcohol… until it stops being that interesting.
- Danny King @ The King Bulletin
- Excerpt: My current instincts tell me that ‘Flight’ is a pretty special movie, the kind of thing I will return to again and again because of its thrilling fusion of entertainment value and character-driven complexity.
- Oktay Ege Kozak @ Oregon Herald
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Matt Looker @ TheShiznit.co.uk
- Excerpt: Washington layers the film with his trademark authenticity and gravitas. Isn’t that just soooo Denzel?
- [New – 3/28] | Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Excerpt: At times gripping and tedious, “Flight” is an interesting, disjointed look at addiction and personal responsbility.
- Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope.com
- Excerpt: grim and uncompromising … Washington delivers one gutsy turn.
- Joe Lozito @ Big Picture Big Sound
- Excerpt: A highly pedigreed Lifetime movie about a heroic pilot who’s also a raging alcoholic.
- Carson Lund @ Are the Hills Going to March Off?
- Excerpt: At a certain point, it seems as if every one of Flight’s strengths is also hampered by a weakness, but fortunately nothing ever does pierce the surface of Washington’s beautifully realized character.
- Mike McGranagan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Flight is an addiction drama that manages to include all the usual elements of the genre while still finding a new context in which to put them.
- Matthew McKernan @ FilmWhinge
- Excerpt: Zemeckis is in control when directing CGI spectacle and the plane crash sequence is the best in the film, but he is hopelessly lost during the adult scenes involving emotion and conversation.
- Brent McKnight @ Beyond Hollywood
- Excerpt: After a compelling start, “Flight” fades into mediocrity
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: Doesn’t quite get off the ground.
- R. Kurt Osenlund @ Slant
- Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: It’s a complex scenario where the lines between right and wrong are blurred, and to its credit, the film never takes the easy way out.
- Tiago Ramos @ Split Screen [Portuguese]
- Jamie S. Rich @ DVD Talk
- Excerpt: Robert Zemeckis’ “Flight” does a tremendous thing: it manages to be both morally self-righteous and morally reprehensible at the same time, pushing a smug agenda while turning real-life problems into overly simplistic slogans, all to chase after some feel-good box office cash. It also has the funniest scene I’ve seen in a cinema all year.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: The best performance of Denzel Washington’s career.
- Marcio Sallem @ Cinema com Crítica [Portuguese]
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: At over two hours, Flight takes the long way home.
- Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
- Cole Smithey Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Enjoyable in that Hollywood-popcorn way for which Robert Zemeckis is famous— see “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” skip “Forest Gump” — “Flight” is a drama that would have been better without the director’s love of schmaltz.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: A mostly gripping character study of a man who’s half hero and half villain.
- Jean-François Vandeuren @ Panorama-cinema.com [French]
- Andrew Wyatt @ Look / Listen (St. Louis Magazine)
- Excerpt: The sheer spectacle of watching a protagonist hit rock bottom over and over (and spectacularly so) and the queasy thrill of never knowing how one should feel about his possible redemption make Flight a worthy entry in the tradition of grotesque filmic character studies.
