Flight

"Flight" starring Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle

"Flight" is the story of airplane pilot Whip Whitaker (Washington) who miraculously saves his airplane from what appears to be certain disaster and in doing so saves the lives of nearly everyone on board.  The opening 30 minutes of this movie are as good and as edge of your seat as they come.  Whitaker is immediately hailed as an American hero for his heroic actions, things start running amiss though when a routine blood test comes back positive for alcohol.  The movies honestly starts to drag a bit at this point as Whitaker comes to terms with his substance abuse issues for the last 90 minutes or so.  Still, overall, an excellent movie, I highly recommend.

I give it 4 out of 5 stars (*****).

On a side note, look for Nadine Velazquez, she really steals her scene in the start of the movie.