Airborne (1998)

Director:

Julian Grant

Writers:

Julian Grant (writer)
Tony Johnston (writer)

Release Date:

23 July 1998 (Canada)

Genre:

Action

Plot:

Bill McNeil heads a black ops team called "Mach 1" called in to retrieve a cannister of deadly viral...

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Cast

Steve Guttenberg	...	Bill McNeil
Kim Coates	...	Bob Murdoch
Torri Higginson	...	Sara Gemmel
Philip Akin	...	Romeo Cortez
David Fraser	...	Mr. Samuels
Colm Feore	...	Ron Simpson
Sean Bean	...	Dave Toombs
Philip DeWilde	...	Video Technician #1
Sara Sahr	...	Video Technician #2
Panou	...	Man #1
Yoav Deckelbaum	...	Man #2
John Jay Hebert	...	Pilot
Don Allison	...	Scientist
Linda Barnett	...	Waitress
Shawn Lawrence	...	Cop #1

Also Known As:

L'avion de la terreur (Canada: French title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and language.

Runtime:

Argentina:91 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Argentina:13 | USA:R (Certificate #35825) | Germany:16 | UK:18 | Iceland:12

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Trivia:

Climax scene used tanks and actual military crews from nearby Canadian Forces Base

Goofs:

Continuity: When McNeil, and Gemmel are retrieving the Virus from the storage area. It shows an exterior shot of Gemmel using what looks like a laser pointer to cut the hatch of the virus storage unit. It shows her cutting a huge circle that’s wider then the hatch, and an interior shot of the laser cutting a circle into the storage container. Yet in the next shot the hatch opens as normal with no evidence of the storage unit having ever been cut into.

Movie Connections:

Edited into Supreme Sanction (1999) (TV)

Laughable!

This film suffers horrendously from its direction "Julian Grant" , and its incompetent lead, Steve Guttenberg, who's putting a solid effort to win a Bruce Willis look-alike contest! The writing is reckless Hollywood action thriller; Sean Bean --whose one of my favorites-- David Fraser, and Kim Coates give a decent performance. The film is definitely below average. 3 out of 10! I wonder what Hollywood studios thought, actually giving the go ahead, to weak director such as Grant. And I'd say to Sean Bean "what were you thinking even considering participating in a film like this, after such great films like GoldenEye, Ronin, and Patriot Games!