Fasten your seatbelts and securely stow your tray tables away: after an extended sabbatical in the uncanny valley, Robert Zemeckis’ first live-action feature in over a decade is taxiing down the runway. The story of an alcoholic pilot thrust into the media spotlight after a heroic crash landing, Flight takes off in incredible style thanks to a jaw-dropping mid-air disaster scene, only to hit turbulence soon after as a result of a long-haul running time and seriously off course script. But leading man Denzel Washington (Unstoppable) manages to steer things to safety, delivering his most impressive performance since Training Day.
2000′s Cast Away was the last time Robert Zemeckis was behind a traditional camera, the oft celebrated technical innovator – also known for the Back to the Future trilogy and the Oscar winning Forest Gump – having spent the first ten years of the millennium in the realm of motion capture animation. The fruit of his labour was the underwhelming threesome of The Polar Express, Beowulf and A Christmas Carol (the most recent of which, although proportionally more refined than its predecessors, was doomed to be overshadowed by James Cameron’s Avatar, released just a months-and-a-half later).
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