It has been exactly 40 years since Martin Scorsese dazzled us with a wild journey and not attached through the belly of New York during a single night in the 1985s After hours. It is therefore not an accident, and certainly a form of tribute from director Darren Aronofsky to include the star of this film, Griffin Dunne, in a small role of support in his last, The NYC East Village-Set Caught the flight, An surprisingly entertaining film, almost slightly commercial of the filmmaker behind Pi, requiem for a dream, the wrestler, the whale, the black swan, the mother!, Among other heavy heavy dramas that have defined his career. Everyone needs a chance to relax and have fun, and even if it is also quite dark in places, definitely violent, This is in fact the end of summer relief from the real world that Aronofsky often lives.
Attribute to his star, Austin Butler for having delivered a sympathetic mess of a guy by the name of Hank Thompson who loves his mother and shows a wonderfully human side for this type of action film charged with crime by also putting the well-being of a con of Maine named Bud, even as his own life is constantly threatened when he innocently accepts to look for the animal’s door. This guy is an emigrant punk rocker Mohawked loving the rhythm of England who, it turns out that it is bad news for Hank. Russ (an unrecognizable Matt Smith apparently) has a number of bad guys after him in search of a kind of key that unlocks something very desirable to all those who Hank, now involuntarily taken in all of this, meet because of his agreement with good heart to take care of Bud.
Hank is a guy who manages, a bartender whose life and the ambition to play baseball have been changed years earlier when, driving drunk, he pushed his car into a tree, killing another player and seriously injuring his knee and ending his dream. Now, with the help of girlfriend Emt Yvonne (Zoe Kravitz), he tries to stay sober and get into a relationship that seems to be very good for both. But, with the Puerto Rican compatriot Colorado (Benito Martinez Ocasio Aka Bad Bunny), when two Russian Russian thugs invade the Russ Pad in search of him and the key, they meet Hank, the fighter almost with renal failure and landing in the hospital. After this meeting, he is aware that he is above his head, especially when looking for the key buried in a shitty toy creaking in Bud’s litter box. A relapse in alcohol consumption does not go well and attracts it in the company of the wise police detective Elise Roman (Regina King) which is hot on the path of drug money hidden by Russ and warns an imminent danger of much more deadly actors, in particular the notorious orthodox Jewish brothers (Liev Schreiber) and Shmully (Vincent d’Onofrio). During this nightmarish trip, several people find themselves dead, Russ also returns the key, and Hank, with Bud by his side, goes further into the rabbit burrow.
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Based on a 1998 novel written by Charlie Huston who also wrote a script in the same year, Flying Allows Aronofsky to point DP and Libatical DP and DP cameras in every corner of a New York that he knows so well, developing in many other places, including Brighton beach, heavy in Russia, and a particularly well -drawn and edited Chase sequence (Andrew Weisbaum is the editor) at Shea Stadium. To Butler, it is a role of cinema affirmation after the character has transformed himself as a elvis and in Dune. His presence on the screen is magnetic and we really care about the guy who carries his emotions on his sleeve, but also offers action skills to be credible enough to simply stay alive with half the New York criminal basement apparently in pursuit. An obstinate king and a compassionate kravitz provide good support, just like all the bad guys in a way you might expect, or not In the case of Schreiber and Onofrio who take us to the heart of deeply orthodox Judaism in a fun detour of the intrigue in the last third of the film (Carol Kane even briefly presents himself to a great marriage sequence as a mother). But it’s the Stealer Tonic scene like Bud, and his, uh, budding Bondage with Hank who wins our hearts. Fortunately, even if there are injuries to the location of the cat, Aronofsky does not to show It is an intelligent decision because I have a cat identical to this one and Weezie would have been horrified. Thank you on behalf of all animal lovers for softening what was more brutally described in the book. However (Spoiler alert) There is a happy ending for Bud.
Also scream at the work of the production creator Mark Friedberg who really captures the era and the appearance of the East Village towards the late 90s and adds enormously to the authentic sensation of time and place. The producers are Jeremy Dawson, Dylan Golden, Ari Handel and Aronofsky.
Title: Flying
Distributer: Sony Pictures
Release date: August 29, 2025
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Scenario: Charlie Huston
Casting: Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreber, Vincent d’Onofrio, Benito Martínez Ocasio, Griffin Dunne, Carol Kane, Nikita Kukuahkin, Yuri Kolokuahkin, Yuri Kolokuahkin.
Notation: R
Operating time: 1 hour and 47 minutes
