I'm not an airline pilot, but I am a commercial pilot, so I know something about these things. Here is a brief list of hilarious errors that I didn't see mentioned elsewhere.
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Opening scene, airliner in flight is 1,100 miles from US coast with 97 minutes of fuel. Uh, that's not going to work. At its max cruising speed of almost 500 knots, the fuel will run out at 800 nautical miles, which is 920 statute (or Hollywood) miles. Ain't going to make it anyway. Also, you are required to have reserves beyond expected time.
When the cabin pressure changes due to a bad-guy bullet hole somewhere (with the requisite falling masks fiasco) , it would reduce the cabin pressure, not increase it as they show.
The Raptors are intercepting the NYC-bound flight while they are 6 miles from some place in PA. Uh, what took them so long, how did our airliner make it to PA instead of NYC, and once caught, why are afterburners needed to keep pace with an airliner?
One night shot shows the airliner proceeding westbound, but with the moon to the north of it. Nope.
The "Heavy from Atlanta airspace" airliner nearly hits our airliner. Looking at the FAA map of ATC Centers, it would have had to fly through Washington, Boston, and NY Centers to get there - a long way from Atlanta.
After the passenger revolt, everyone is silent. If it were me, I'd be getting a beer from the liquor cart and giving a few Hoo-Ya's!
Baldwin directs the airliner to "Runway 2882". There is no such place. Runways are designated by just two digits, corresponding to the first two numbers of their magnetic heading, e.g. Runway-28 is aligned with 280 degrees. I think Alex's compass is wound up too tight! (Or maybe it's Rusty.) (Sorry; too soon?)
That mythical runway is "10 miles due south" but they "don't have enough fuel to make it". Must be the plane turned into a large rock. From 30,000 feet, the airliner should be able to glide about 60 miles.
Then the starboard engine runs out of fuel. Because this is Hollywood, that means that it must of course immediately catch fire, burning, uh...
At touchdown, we see a wonderful head-on shot of the plane landing. But in addition to there no longer being fires from the engine or tail, the 767 has miraculously turned into a Boeing 737.
The final plot twist involving the "good guy" is unbelievable. Plus, he neglects to instruct the heroine how to use the brakes, so it's fortunate that the 230,000 pound aircraft decides to coast to a stop on this little emergency airstrip without any of the theatrics that normally occur, even on big airports.
This movie - what a hoot!
The bad: this movie is cheaply made and one can tell, Everything from the leading credits, to the sound, to the photography, all these technical aspects are way below average. It's quite cringeworthy to watch these cheap special effects, it's as if we are watching a seventies disaster movie, with lots of ridiculous fake effects.
More bad: what's even worse though is that the many supporting actors unintentionally are becoming a laughing stock, by the really terrible, yet funny way they (try) to act.
And as the final blow this movie simply never ever achieves to thrill for one mere second.
Not any good then? It's absolutely a new low for Alec Baldwin, who is starring in this disastrous flick. Although I must admit his performance was still kinda convincing, because he is still a good actor, running on lower ground though...
Second, it was hilarious that the terrorists suspected/knew the one guy was a traitor. "One thing goes wrong? We have a traitor!" Why do you suspect him? Why do you think there's a traitor? Never explained.
Also, I found it appalling how INSTANTLY they wanted to shoot down a passenger plane full of people. Really, that was their first option? And then they end up shooting down a completely random, innocent plane.
This movie had potential, the concept is great. The execution was terrible and left me very disappointed.
There hasn't been a plane thriller for a while now. The genre had its heyday in the late 90s with Passenger 57, Executive Decision, Con Air, Air Force One, Turbulence and finally had a small revival with Red Eye, Flightplan and Snakes on a Plane. If you enjoyed those, don't get your hopes up. This is bottom of the barrel junk, murkily lit to hide the budget limitations, badly paced and with plot holes big enough to fly a 747 through.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers must be in dire need of cash. This is the second low budget junk movie with him released in a month. He's not the worst actor out there, but I'm not sure he can carry a film. At least not one of this quality, but then again who could.
Alec Baldwin... well we know why he'll take any paycheck he can get now. I think the graphic artist doesn't like him very much. They wisely changed the poster for IMDB, but google the main cover the film, and you will see a hilariously bad photoshop of Baldwin that looks like some grade school kid just figured out the skin smoothing effect on photoshop for the first time. Normally his agent (if he still has one) should have cought that before it went public. But as with most of these direct to streaming movies, no one gives a damn about anything.
If you value your time at all, you'll find a better film to watch.
I am sure if there was a go found me to be able to produce this film, Alec Baldwin most have been the biggest donor of the funds, otherwise this couldn't be released at all.
I mean, this is the baddest film of this year so far. Poor sound, bad script, scholars acting. The bad guys portrait as simple and bad as possible. The pilot's son is like a cartoon implant. The Doctor as many of the other characters are kind of extracted from a bad theatrical representation.
And I thought The Mother and Fast X were the baddest films this year. But this one surpass them by far.
I managed to restart watching twice just to see how bad it will end and actualy ends even worse. Even Snakes on plane and some Sharknado movies make more sense. OK, there's some action inserts but nevertheless it's wouldn't change anything in plot even without them.
I give moive 2 stars just because it is too bad to have 1 star. It's nice from time to time to watch such bad movies just to remember, how bad they can.
Other than that this is 97 minutes (or however long this film is lol) of your time thoroughly squandered. Just go watch Plane with Gerard Butler and Mike Colter again instead. Even Danielle Pineda wasn't insufferable (unlike her bad takes regarding the character of Faye Valentine in the much maligned Cowboy Bebop Netflix show that was unceremoniously cancelled after the first horribly cringe season)
What is this movie, and if this was filmed before Baldwins issues, who does he owe? Not even Nicolas Cage would take on something this cheap for a quick buck, it's just trash filmed in an aeroplane hanger. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is certainly suffering for his sins having to take this type of low budget lead, and it's clear he's only doing it 'for the cash', it's all anyone's doing. If there was a casting director they surely need to be blacklisted, their choices were appalling.
Generic everything, poor effects, stupid twists, and the worse most intrusive score I've heard in a long time. It's a slog at 93minutes.
Don't board this one.
But i can give props to the twist near the end tho.
And lastly the fact that the movie is called "97 Minutes" but it's only 93 minutes long is a bad sign lmao.
The movie is about a hijacked plane that will crash in only 97 minutes when its fuel runs out. Against the strong will of NSA Deputy Toyin, NSA Director Hawkins prepares to have the plane shot down before it does any catastrophic damage on the ground, leaving the fate of the innocent passengers on the plane in the hands of Alex, an undercover Interpol agent who has been embedded in the terrorist cell.
THINGS I LIKED: I've mentioned before that I'm a fan of Jonathan Rhys Meyers and feel bad for him that he just can't book the big Hollywood blockbuster movies. I loved him in the popular TV series "The Tutors", but ever since then, he's been pumping out only B movies.
I've always gotten a kick out of Alec Baldwin. This movie sure was an easy paycheck for him.
Other cast members include MyAnna Buring, Jo Martin, Michael Sirow, Pavan Grover, Anjul Nigam, Slavko Sobin, Danny Bohnen, and more.
The director used some really cool camera shots. It had to have been tricky to film in such tight quarters as an airplane cabin.
There's an interesting conversation between two characters about Shakespeare's Hamlet that helps us understand a character's motivation.
This kind of movie always makes me wonder what I would do in that situation.
There's a fun twist at the end. I figured there would be one but it was different than what I thought it would be!
Like every movie made nowadays, the heroes are mostly women.
I liked the song at the end of the movie by Livingston.
THINGS I DIDN'T LIKE: One of the problems is that we only get to know one of the characters, so it's a hard sell to want us to care about most of the people on the plane.
Some of the dialogue is really dumb.
Who shoots a gun on an airplane? That's insane because it could cause the plane to immediately crash.
The ending "change of heart" was absolutely ridiculous.
There are some filters used on several shots that made the film look hokey.
Due to the title, I thought there would be more shots of clocks, timers, and other count-down moments.
TIPS FOR PARENTS: Some profanity, including F-bombs Lots of blood and splatter Many people get shot and often die brutal, bloody deaths.
Violence with various weapons, as well as hand-to-hand combat.
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Action Boring Acting boring Plot boring
Hijacking is the main plot of the movie using 3D printing of toy gun use as real gun Why are they using toy model guys if one guy carried a real gun why not others.
They can easily place a nuke on a plane but they can't get real guns inside the plane there is no logic on that.
Bring down the hijacked plane using raptor F22 but finally they bring down the other passengers plane no one what happens to them silly loss of innocent lives.
At last Fight between Jonathan and another guy that looks like real action skills even the kid can understand they are playing.
Finally the villain aka hero changes the mind and saves the world and safely lands.
Guys if u really want to waste the time go for it i strongly suggest you do not do anything by not watching this film to waste time.
Apparently, they would not even let him near a water pistol during filming.
The plot is perfect for him - pure nonsense. I can't wait to see his next flop. Gotta love karma, shooter...
I heard that the cast and crew wore bulletproof vests during the production. The catch phrase during filming was: " guns don't kill people- Baldwin kills people."
His next movie is with Armie Hammer and Lori Laughlin - it's called Damaged Goods.
You still may not be entirely convinced - it does have good actors in it though and the action is decent. You can enjoy the ride (or flight for that matter) - just do not expect this to be something it is not.
Every aspect had me shaking my head. The acting was over the top or monotonous or both. I guess they were making it up as they went along because this sermed to be lacking a director.
The dialogue wasn't inaudible or incomprehensible, was preposterous.
There clearly was no casting director, I assume the rolls were filled on a first come first served basis. Every character had similar traits and attitudes. Reality was not part of this production. It felt like they knew this was a trainwreck and did the least amount of work to rush and get it over with.
Ten minutes into the film I was checking the counter. Honestly, I stopped at the halfway mark and have zero motivation to see what happens. Really Sad.
A standar plot of a hijacked plane.
All things u have seen again and again in those kind of movies.
The fighting scene, oh my God, was awful.
I trully think that i could hit more realistically .
Them hitting each other, so slowly and oyt of target was hilarious.
The only good thing was the plot twist.
I didnt see that coming for real... and that is the main reason i am giving this movie a three out of ten. Lol..... Guys , do your selves a favor and dont waste time watching this movie.
Go watch something else.
When a plane heading for New York is hijacked by Russian terrorists. Hawkish NSA Director Hawkins (Alec Baldwin) wants to shoot it down before the plane hits American space. His underling Toyin (Jo Martin) toys for a more restraint solution that would save the lives of the passenger.
Toyin has help as one of the terrorists in the plane Alex (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is an undercover Interpol agent. He is helping a former medic on the plane to revive the injured pilot.
Maybe Alex could regain control of the plane and kill off the terrorists. In his way are some of the other passengers who plan to take their own action against the terrorists on the plane.
This is a cheaply made and cheap looking film that seemed to have been shot in England. The movie is a bit of a dud. It has a little bit of Passenger 57 and Die Hard with a twist. Not sure adding elements of United 93 was bad taste or not.
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