Browser’s Magnificent Seven

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THIS compelling study of one man’s battle against booze and drug addiction will keep your interest. Against the odds, he holds down a high-risk job.

Our hero Whip Whitaker, alias Denzel Washington, wakes up beside a leggy blonde, rubs his eyes, takes a slug of hard liquor, puffs a joint and snorts a line of coke. Then he puts on his airline pilot’s uniform and flies a plane from Miami to Atlanta. Wow!

Disaster strikes in mid-air, but Whip retains his nerve when everybody else is falling to pieces. He flies the plane upside down to extinguish a fire in an engine and crash lands the plane in a corn field with one wing sheared off. A handful of passengers are killed but he is initially a hero whose skill saved 96 other lives. An inquiry begins, his addictions become public and a lawsuit and rehab beckon.

A terrific performance by Washington holds this character study together and experienced director Robert Zemeckis makes the crash sequence a white-knuckle ride. It was an adult and witty script by John Gatins in 2012.

Time Out said: “Thanks to that dynamite opening and Washington’s effortless performance, it is an enjoyable, compelling slice of old-school melodrama.”

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