Flight 4K 2012 Ultra HD 2160p

Experienced pilot Waitaker miraculously avoids a plane crash and makes an emergency landing, saving the lives of nearly all the passengers on board. He becomes a national hero, but the more details about the crash come to light during the investigation, the more questions arise: what really happened?

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Plot. Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington), the captain of a passenger jet, leads a life that’s far from easy or “glamorous.” One day, during one of his typical days, he wakes up in bed with a flight attendant after a wild night, gets high on a mix of cocaine and hard liquor, and sets out to fulfill his professional duties as a pilot. He’s an extremely experienced pilot, but he can’t seem to overcome his addictions. A rainy day promises a challenging flight, but the situation begins to feel like a disaster when the plane’s systems fail. Whitaker manages to pull off the unimaginable and land the plane as it spirals toward the ground. However, even in this situation, six people lose their lives. After being admitted to the hospital, the captain regains consciousness as a national hero who saved countless lives, but even here, things aren’t so straightforward: by law, someone must be held accountable for what happened, and traces of his “addictions” are rightly detected in Whitaker’s blood. Now he faces trial and the threat of life imprisonment. A highly talented lawyer and his friends try to save the protagonist’s skin, but he himself cannot shake off the addictions that incriminate him, becoming increasingly entangled in the problems piling up on him and the web of his own lies. The proceedings proceed with mixed success, but in the end, Whip—fallen in so many senses—will have to give what may be the most important testimony of his life: an answer to the dead, the living, and himself.

One might reasonably expect a standard, feel-good “story of redemption and redemption” from a film with such a plot. However, Robert Zemeckis seems to have grown tired of making Christmas fairy tales, and he has made "Flight" a film that is by no means childish—a rather complex movie with a protagonist who is not exactly likable. Whitaker isn’t to blame for the crash, but he is guilty of heavy drinking and drug use—almost at the controls of the massive passenger plane. Yet, throughout the film, he can’t really shake his addictions (which he needs to do because of the impending trial and the media spotlight), ignores pleas and offers of help, and just lies, drinks, lies, and snorts—even when he absolutely shouldn’t.

So what is this movie really about? Don’t think it’s all that bad—the conventions of the “redemption film” will still make themselves known, but I won’t reveal how. "Flight" is a film about the difficult struggle with oneself, a struggle familiar to many people. It’s about true freedom, which is achieved when a person can truly take responsibility for their actions and keep their passions in check. It’s about lies that kill and that cannot provide true shelter to those who try to hide behind these illusory walls. One of the film’s key aspects is its religious interpretation of the situation. In this regard, "Flight" suggests that coincidences aren’t coincidences at all—they’re part of God’s predestination. If you’re not particularly fond of religion, I’m happy to report that these ideas aren’t overly prominent in the film.

The film’s ideological component doesn’t feel particularly intrusive, and Whip himself is so actively sabotaging his own life throughout the entire movie that I, for one, felt ready to shout at him from the theater: “Come on, man! At least today, you’ve got to stay clean!” That said, "Flight" can’t really be called dynamic or thrilling, though at certain moments the tension does reach a high level. The crash scene, however, is executed very well and realistically. Thus, Zemeckis has directed a drama without straying too far into other genres—even the film’s brief “love story” element gets largely lost in the overall narrative.

The acting is one of the film’s strengths, and I wouldn’t be surprised if old-timer Washington ends up on the shortlist for the upcoming Oscars.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (84.2 Mb/s)
Resolution: 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10+
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Info Audio

#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
#English: FLAC 2.0
#Czech: Dolby Digital 5.1
#Hungarian: Dolby Digital 5.1
#Polish: Dolby Digital 5.1
#Russian: Dolby Digital 5.1
#Thai: Dolby Digital 5.1
#Turkish: Dolby Digital 5.1

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