Flight isn't an easy sit. It doesn't offer up comforting answers to the many questions it raises or deal in exaggerated platitudes an audience might find simplistically comforting.

Flight proves, in a bad way, that believable characters are essential for all good movies.

While his performance here is perhaps not as introspective as it had the potential to become... it is off kilter from his more usual fare these days making it that much more memorable and compelling.

The movie emerges as less a drama about an airplane crash and more a character study about a man who won’t admit his problems to anyone, including himself.