Synopsis: Airline pilot (Denzel Washington), against all the odds, manages to land a plane with a technical fault saving most of the passengers but it turns out he had been drinking
Stan verdict: Feel like there was a better film trying to get out of this one. The trailer implies, or at least it did to me, that it would focus on the manslaughter case against him because he was drunk vs the fact that he did what no other pilot could. Instead the central tension seems to be about whether he is going to have another drink or not. Even if you factor in whether he will tell the truth or not at the enquiry, I don't think it was quite as interest a film as it could have been.
There is also a love interest storyline with a junkie, who injects, who seems to get clean without any struggle. Don't think losing that would have been a great loss.
Denzel Washington does put in a great performance but overall I thought it was disappointing.
Ratings:
- Stan's: 50%
- IMDB: 74%
- Metascore: 76%
- Rotten Tomatoes: 73%
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