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7 out of 10 people found the following review useful:
Wooo!, 15 July 2000
Author:
Dan Brusca (mail@danbrusca.com) from Nottingham, England
This is one of that strange breed of films - the cliche ridden, made for TV
that also happens to be fantastically entertaining!
No scenes of tedious plot exposition and no dead-weight back story dragging
it down, just a damn fine airplane disaster flick with genuine excitement
and a likeable cast.
Good work fellas!
3 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
A Great Airplane Disaster Movie, 26 August 2006
Author:
susan7 from Lansdowne, VA
The story line is interesting, if somewhat improbable. Some would say
down right impossible. But that should not detract from the film. It is
no more improbable than the story lines of any adventure movie - James
Bond, for example - or many of the fantasy films that are so popular
these days. So we should not judge the film on how realistic we think
it may or may not be, but on how entertaining it is.
I found "Final Decent" to be very entertaining. It had action; it had
romance; and it had suspense. In fact, I would call it the best of the
Airplane disaster movies. That's enough for me. I liked it. And I am
saddened that it was never available commercially.
Where's the DVD?
3 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Surely unrealistic, but pretty funny Tv-movie, 13 August 2001
Author:
emilian77 from Italy
This movie is not much realistic, sure. It is more realistic than airport
79
(that movie where a Concorde is far more manouverable than a military
jetplane!), but it is obvious...
Indeed, I have to say that this Tv-movie is full of nice ideas in the plot,
movie ideas, OK, but also funny for this reason. So, if you like the
catastrophic genre, take a look at this very economic movie.
But don't expect a realistic movie: no one has realized, up today, a really
realistic movie about the airplanes.
2 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Not that bad at all, 27 November 2003
Author:
Tim (TiminPhoenix@aol.com) from Phoenix, AZ
Now granted, if you are one of those types that complain because your ice
water was served cold and wet you might not like this. But if you go into
with the knowledge you are not in some USC film class, you can enjoy a
lazy
afternoon watching this.
Urich is his usual engaging self. This actor while in some pretty broad
roles always managed to keep his performance low key.
He does so as the pilot of this doomed plane. There is a question of
potentially sacrificing the lives of some to save the others, a nice
little
addition to your standard disaster movie.
2 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
The Greatest Comedy Drama Ever!, 26 April 2002
Author:
jwinters-2 from United States
You've got to watch this movie! It is so bad it actually is great.
You've got your crazy but gutsy captain who of course is having an affair
with his worn out used to be gorgeous copilot. And of course the mid air
collision occurs when the captain's enemy and rivalis along for the ride to
geYou've got your ex Vietnam Vet who is can't handle the pressure of another
mid air collision and crash landing. Then you've got your old crazy Army Air
corp buddy who is flying the chase plane and trying to well I can't tell you
what he's trying to do. The plane keeps going up, up and well and then
you've got your greedy and immoral corporate engineer and then you've got
your Ice Station Zebra cold and then Lucky saves the bad guy from drowing so
they can land the plane! aND IT DOESN'T END --- IT JUST GOES ON AND ON!
You've got to watch this. It's great! YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING! DID THEY
ACTUALLY SHOW THIS ON COMMERCIAL TELEVISION AND HOW IT WAS EVER SHOWN ON
CABLE.
3 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Don't trust the vote-You could do a lot worse!, 15 February 2001
Author:
rubenfransson from Oslo. Norway
Final Descent isn't an original flick.-But first and foremost a solid movie, without all the usual mistakes we're all so sick and tired of! The acting is solid. The plot and script works. The technical aspects seem credible. The outside-shots of the airplane are good. and the special effects are actually flawless. -On top of which Robert Ürich delivers a fine performance as usual. All in all:-A good version of an old idea. You won't be disappointed. I give it 4/6!
0 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Q For Question mark, 23 June 2001
Author:
(seanz2001@hotmail.com) from London, England
Fortunately I only saw the last 30 minutes of this excuse for entertainment. It was so bad it was watchable, special effects derisable, totally unbelivable story and unconvincing acting throughout, was that babies smile real or was it a special effect. There was a big Q on the tail of the plane which I felt symbolised Q for questionable film.
1 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Plane Stupid..., 6 February 2009
Author:
statistician_t from Switzerland
Although I have rarely flown myself, I am keenly interested in
aviation... and this film has added to the precious laughing stock in
aviation cinema.
1. Why is the captain doing the ground checks? Why does he even measure
the oil levels in the engines? With turnaround times as low as 15
minutes in commercial aviation this is not a typical pre-flight check.
2. WHY does the captain KICK against the aircraft tire? Strange kind of
pressure check. Or anger management :-)
3. The cockpit has a crew of 3. All large, western, two-engined jets
built since the 1980ies have a crew of 2 people. Now try a guess at how
old the movie script is.
4. A helicopter manages to fly alongside the crippled airliner. Must be
a fast one... and the captain's words to explain the "maneuver" to the
passengers are indeed hilarious ones!
5. With arrested elevator rudders it is always possible to lower the
nose of the aircraft. It happens, for example, when any aircraft moves
slower than the stall speed.
6. The elevator rudders have hydraulic actuators. After the collision
with the business plane it would, most probably, have severed the
hydraulic lines and thus make them useless for steering, but it would
NOT fix them in certain position.
7. The fire in the aft galley was a stupid idea. It was designed to
show that only gentlemen ask for the extinguisher and fight the fire,
regardless of who was actually trained to do that – the flight
attendant.
8. At the time of collision, the aircraft's elevators would have been
in a neutral position. The film could have ended here...
9. The flight engineer (the third person in the cockpit) has three bars
on his uniform. In reality, flight engineers have two.
10. Why does the captain slash the cabin casing with an axe to examine
the damage behind? I thought it would have been the flight engineer's
duty, as he is already supposed to perform technical checks before and
after flight.
11. In any aircraft, there is no unused space. At least commercial
airplanes cannot afford the luxury of a compartment that can be filled
with tons of water.
I could go on and on... but at last I laughed hysterically about how
the screenwriters imagine aircraft disasters! Woooohooo! Most aircraft
disasters happen in such a short time span that you simply cannot make
90-minute flicks out of them. But you can always fill 90 minutes with
mind-boggling and insane crap, irrespective of the genre.
1 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Beyond formula, 8 September 2004
Author:
bernie-50 from Arlington Texas
A brand new jumbo aircraft that fly its self is being piloted by a
cowboy who hates computers. Keeping an eye on him is a rival for his
girl (the other pilot). Sure as shoot'n second plain private and
piloted by a 200hour pilot. Turns in to the jumbo jet disabling the
ailerons in an upward position. This is just the beginning.
This movie is closer to the original Airplane movie with the exception
that all the people just half expose their past a little at a time as
the disaster proceeds. The ending is predictable and the constant
problems are part of the formula. However tithe actors make a very good
mix and do there jobs well enough to make you forget that it is a
movie.
1 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Whoa, one bomb of a film, 29 May 2001
Author:
dechupa from Iceland
one of the worst films I have EVER seen, but extremely funny (not on purpose
though).
Every scene that contains anything to do with; aircraft, romance, script or
acting is badly messed up.
I recommend this film for all pilots, it´s so bad that you should burst into
laughter at some point in the film (also see Airport 79:the Concorde, for
the same reason).
Anyone else, avoid this film like the plague (except for fans of B-movies,
of course)
enjoy
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