Wordiezett So much average

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Stewie Griffin Sometimes the movies that show up on Netflix are a gamble. Hadn't heard of Life in Flight, thought I take a chance. Ugh, I lost this bet. I GET the movie, its just poorly done. Cliché story, bad script, cliché characters, overdone sets, overdone costuming. I mean, what the hell was Kate wearing in her opening scene? This movie just tried way to hard. I don't know who financed the movie and I don't know how it got into Tribeca, but the writer-director needs to put this one behind her and focus her filmmaking talents on more substance, less cheese. I admit I didn't watch the whole movie because I couldn't, every second of it was killing me. Let's start with the first scene with Catherine and Will in bed. How can she still be lying in bed if she's that agitated about starting her day. Will notices the look on her face, but puts the moves on her anyway, instead of asking "Hey what's up? Why so stressed?" Why make it that she's a megabitch and him totally clueless in the first scene! It just doesn't work. The obviousness made me want to wretch. Another 17 minutes and I was done. Just awful!

orson-13 Patrick Wilson seems born to these sensitive professional male roles that require a rethinking of the smooth path the character is on. Director Tracey Hecht has a firm hand on an interesting and large cast and her script meshes the characters deftly,creating some drama without knocking heads. The film is realistically and interestingly placed within the world of architectural design and construction while at the same time offering an older New York office milieu kind of story. Without being cliché wealthy types, the main characters are likable genteel professionals on the way up, but reconsidering some avenues of personal and professional fulfillment. Amy Smart is charming, Wilson spot on, and Lynn Collins solid. Cinematography is excellent as are sets and locations. It's a truly unpretentious film and so may not be exciting enough for some.

MBunge I once read a comment from Jim Shooter, the former Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics, that it was okay to tell a "day in the life" story as long as it was about the day you discovered penicillin or saved the world from an alien invasion. There's some truth to that. Heaven knows a lot of storytellers love to wallow in the mundane, keeping it real or getting all meta or something. Every so often, though, it's nice to experience a film that isn't about people getting killed or boy getting plot-hammered together with girl while a joke goes off every 20 seconds. At less than 80 minutes long, Life in Flight manages to satisfy that craving without overstaying its welcome.Will Sargent (Patrick Wilson) is a New York City architect with a constantly aggravating construction project on one hand and a constantly striving wife (Amy Smart) on the other. Will is on track to merge his company with a larger, ritzier firm. His wife is happy about that. Will…not so much. He has mostly consigned himself to it, until he meets Kate (Lynn Collins). She's a designer herself and the two of them click from almost the first words they speak to each other. While Will and his wife are living in different emotional hemispheres, it's like he and Kate are next door neighbors. Kate thinks there's something going on between them while Will tries not to admit that to himself. Then she finds out he's married and the day comes when he has to sign the merger papers and both of them are forced to stop living their lives the way other people want them to.Patrick Wilson and Lynn Collins are both elegantly normal. Yes, the drama of their characters isn't like they're living in a war zone or trying to escape from a horde of zombies, but they let us see it's as important to Will and Kate as all our dramas are to us. Nobody else except Amy Smart really has more than an extended cameo in the movie, so the whole shebang rests of Wilson and Collins making us care about Will and Kate. They succeed by diving into the somewhat shallow waters of two people who are unhappy without having much cause to be and making the viewer feel the commonplace depth of his or her own life.Now, I wouldn't say everything works here. Kate invests a whole lot of emotion into a guy she barely flirts with. You also can't escape the realization at the end of Life in Flight that you've watched the world's most sympathetic view of a guy going through a midlife crisis where the film ends just as he's about to start cheating on his wife. I'm not sure if it was intentional but it made me stop and reevaluate how I felt about the whole thing. And while Amy Smart plays a bitch whose bitchiness is beautifully calibrated to a inch before something Will would feel entitled to object to, the two of them are so out of sync it's hard to believe they would have ever had a second date, let alone got married and had a child.If you're looking for a distraction, this probably isn't it. It you'd like a mirror to help you see your own life a bit more clearly, take a look at Life in Flight.

stockpicker01-1 Just saw the premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, with all the people there (and all the blocked off seats...us $15 ticket buyers could only sit on the side or the last two rows) you would have thought it was some big to-do. But honestly, about the worst movie I've seen in a long time. Every possible bad movie cliché is in this one, including the flock of birds referred to in the title (spoiler alert...the birds turn out to be...PIGEONS!!!). And then the obligatory shrewish wife, unhappy husband, the other woman, so and so forth. The directors' commentary afterward was completely inane..turns out the characters are supposed to be on some continuum of fear that we all have, which is why the characters have similar names like "Kate" and "Catherine." I didn't see that one coming!How this movie ever got made is beyond me. Fly far away from this one.