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10 out of 11 people found the following review useful:
my weekly paycheck exceeds the budget of this movie..and im unemployed, 21 April 2004
Author:
V-Man from Brooklyn, NY, USA
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
ok lets see where do I start, I love watching action b-movies because I
like
to see what they can do with a low budget, and to get a laugh out of the
stolen stock footage and poor acting but this movie takes the
cake.
What we have here is a poor clone of Executive Decision.
SPOILERS:
Standard plot, terrorists take over the plane, a unit is sent to eliminate
them. Predictably, just like in Executive Decision, our hero team uses an
air hatch to transfer to the 747. Yet what is the most surprising thing is
that they didn't use the Executive Decision footage of that scene, rather
it
looked like a computer merging since the resolution and color saturation
of
the 747 far exceeded the SR-71.
Anyways back to elite unit of commandos who in a real gunfight would shoot
each others heads off with their positioning. They make their way into the
plane and attack the terrorists with a deadly barrage of.....handguns. And
the battle ensues as the good guys shoot 2 times and hide, then the
terrorists shoot 2 times and hide, then the good guys shoot 2 times and
hide, etc.. until this intense battle ends when the terrorists decide
instead of ducking they will wait for the good guys to come out and shoot
them, which they did all at once, yet for some reason there are no bullet
holes or blood stains on the commandos.
Lucky for us, our main hero Ice-T is alive and only his leg is wounded,
but
in his poor attempt to act, he gasps for air as if he had run a 2 hour
marathon. But wait.. a stewardess saves the day and they prepare to land.
But wait, the bad guy has revived so he gets thrown out of an open door at
30,000 feet and clings at the door while a fog machine covers him with fog
to simulate clouds. Yet at 30,000 ft the stewardess leans outside and
closes
the door without any problems or gusts of wind disturbing her clothes. As
if
that was not bad enough, it could have been a good scene had she pretended
to be "scared" and closed the door as if she was at 30,000 feet instead of
a
stationary plane on the ground. Whats that called....oh
yea...ACTING!
And as we approach the runway with all this turbulence shaking the plane,
from the inside it looks as if they're on one of the most smoothest
flights.
The least they could have done is shake the camera star trek style. I
understand that the budget is bad, but this movie is so bad they overlook
the smallest details which dont cost them anything. My rating - action:0,
comedy:0, unintentional comedy:10. Watch only if you need a good
laugh.
7 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Ughh, where do I start., 19 February 2004
Author:
jgmandel from Washington D.C.
This is now officially the worst movie I have ever seen. I don't even know where to start. People who bought this movie would have been better off if the box was empty. If you are the type of viewer who watches action or military movies for technical accuracy, do yourself a favor before watching this film and kill yourself- because half way through, you'd wish you were dead. I'm no engineer- but i'm pretty sure if you open a door to a 747 at 30,000 feet, you wouldn't be able to lean out of it to close it. And I like Ice-T, but he must have been hurting for a paycheck he accepted the lead role for this miserable piece of crap. I want the two hours of my life back.
9 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
Missed the first 30 min - and thanked God on my knees for that, 8 November 2004
Author:
poeight
To be honest, I didn't like "Executive Decision" - which was obvious
the template - very much, but compared to this piece of crap, it looks
like a masterpiece of art.
Not only that the people moving in the film (the term actors would be
an insult for all other actors) should attend more acting classes, the
guy who build the setting hasn't even seen an aircraft from afar. It is
so ridiculous, that on a 747 only 3 flight attendance are aboard, but
this is only the tip of the iceberg. The film is full of illogicalness
(e.g.: use sleeping-gas, then don't use it, then use it anyway), which
dropped my rating finally to the bottom.
You can have more fun in rearranging you sock drawer or in drilling a
hole in your knee and fill it with milk.
10 out of 14 people found the following review useful:
They should have hired a technical advisor., 2 February 2004
Author:
bobfitz821
One Stinko of a movie featuring a shopworn plot and, to be kind, acting of
less than Oscar caliber. But to me the single worst flaw was the total
misrepresentation of a jet aircraft, and especially a 747. Some of the
major blunders:
1. No Flight Engineer (or even a flight engineer station.
2. Mis-identifying the F-16 interceptors as F-15's (no resmblance
whatsoever).
3. Loading passengers into an "aft baggage compartment" supposedly
accesible
from the cabin - Even if such a compartment existed, placing that much
weight that far aft would make the aircraft unflyable.
4. Hollow point bullets that "won't damage the aircraft".
5. The entire landing procedure was so bad I wanted to
puke.
6. An SR-71 (of all planes) with a pressure seal hatch
7. Opening a cabin door outward - into the wind - in flight!!
Ah nuts, it was just a truly lousy movie. Gotta make the list of bottom
10
of the year.
6 out of 7 people found the following review useful:
Did anyone think to ask a pilot...?, 6 April 2005
Author:
av8or233 from United States
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
What a complete piece of trash. Plot notwithstanding, when a movie's action revolves around airplanes, you'd think the writers/producers/director (or ANYONE!) would do a little bit of homework as to at least a FEW of the details. The mistakes were so glaring that I was fuming by the end of the movie. Here are just a few: I'm glad I missed the SR-71 sequence - certain to have been worse than the "Air Force One" F-117 spectacle. Commercial airlines usually have their logos painted on the aircraft rather than BOEING 747 – likely the (cheap) use of some Boeing advertising/publicity footage by the director. Exposed wiring connected by wire nuts is mediocre at best for house wiring, much less multi-million dollar aircraft avionics wiring. Airplanes like the 747 rely on pressure alone rather than ship's supply oxygen to maintain breathable air, and if they did rely on an on-board supply, the canister would be far bigger than fist sized. Medical tape is not a suitable substitute for a threaded hose connection. Those were F-16s, NOT F-15s. Mach 1+ (speed of sound) would be difficult to attain on a static engine run up for takeoff (watch the airspeed indicator). "Standard formation" is simply keeping the formation inside one nautical mile, "route" formation is what they were flying - not the most useful formation for an intercept. "Acquiring missile lock" is not likely to get an airline pilot's attention - they have no radar detection or countermeasures. "Wait for my signal" is not inter-flight communication for preparing to fire anything. Depressurization from a door opening in flight is not grounds for an immediate steep left bank. Yelling into a headset does not make it transmit. Magnetic headings are given as "headings" not "bearings," and headings are between 001 and 360 degrees (compasses in the air are just like compasses on the ground!), so turning left (not "port" – that's a boat thing) from a "bearing" of 618 to 502 is just stupid. It is in most cases impossible to just "turn the yoke left until the correct heading is reached" – that sort of thing will result in 360 degree rolls until the yoke is centered again. The likelihood of a flight attendant immediately finding and successfully engaging the autopilot is only slightly greater than the likelihood of her actually landing the jet safely. Airplanes don't stall immediately upon pulling the throttle back, and 747s have more than one little lever to control the multi-engine thrust. Flaps are lowered in increments usually just prior to and immediately following landing gear extension, not seconds before landing (good way to crash). Wheel brakes are required to stop an airplane, simply pulling the throttle(s) (this time a different lever in the movie) to idle will just allow you to go off the end of the runway at a slower speed. Did I mention that those fighter aircraft were F-16s and NOT F-15s? Guess I did… And that's just what I REMEMBER from recently watching this horrific movie.
7 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
Most Hilarious Ripoff I've Seen Lately..., 5 January 2005
Author:
jackburden from Austin, TX
Spoilers? Maybe a few details, but nothing too plot related. Not like
it would matter with this movie.
Air Rage blatantly rips off the mid-air infiltration premise of
Executive Decision. Ice-T leads a team of four "elite" commandos who
wear baggy black shirts that we can only imagine must conceal invisible
body armor as their idiotic tactics (similar to what 3rd graders use
when playing Star Wars on the playground) lead them to absorb a hail of
gunfire.
What entertained me the most about this flick was the use of look-alike
has-been actors. You'll immediately recognize Cyril O'Reily as someone
who once acted in a movie that you really liked, though it was so long
ago that you probably won't be able to place it (it was Porky's). Here
Cyril plays a decent knock-off of a Bill Paxton character. Most
Hilarious is porker Gil Gerard, who's so fat that you will never
recognize him as TV's Buck Rogers. Instead of evoking his mildly heroic
character past, Gerard gives us a passable performance of the crusty
fat tough guy persona, which was clearly imagineered for John Goodman.
Finally, Alex Cord gives us a nice hybrid look-alike performance as a
Chuck Connors/Kirk Douglas type. In the 10 years since New Jack City,
Ice-T's acting has deteriorated remarkably. It's not acting so much as
regurgitation of lines that he might have actually memorized.
One of the items that plays into this movie is a CD-ROM of classified
information. It's being hand carried, and it's apparently and
unbelievably not encrypted, despite the security-savvy aura of Gerard's
NSA character. What a joke. I'm severely doubting that the information
purported to be on the CD would ever even all be assembled into a
portable format.
Despite being in a closed aircraft without silencers, the gunfire is
about as loud as canned air, and causes nary a person to flinch, so
apparently no foley budget. The assortment of weapons chosen is pretty
funny. The flight attendant's use of a coffee pot is about the most
realistic depiction of violence in the film. When she takes intuitively
to the mini-Uzi pistol, which has got to be one of the worst pistol
designs ever, that's just too stupid. A true elite team would carry
MP-5s for this type thing or maybe SOCOMM .45s, or even customized Hi-
Powers if they were really old school, or maybe something FN 5.7 if new
school... The lame-o standard issue 92Fs are totally unbelievable,
having lost most of their cool after Lethal Weapon I. The bad guys,
supposedly experienced soldier of fortune types, have an assorted
mixture of absurdity, like the aforementioned mini-Uzi pistol and a
Tec-9 with the infamous non-functional barrel extender that isn't a
silencer.
There was one touch of realism on which I would like to correct the
other reviewers: The flight attendant and Ice-T did lower the craft to
10,000 feet for "breathable air" before they opened the door. And I
also got the impression that the flight attendant was NOT able to get
the door closed, that she basically just gave up on that point. As far
as the landing, there was no mention of flaps until about 2 seconds
before touchdown. Sigh.
Only the Dukes of Hazard eluding Roscoe P. Coltrane at the "pass" could
shame this movie for use of stock footage. They obviously chose the
incredible (and retired) SR-71 because they couldn't get stock of an
F-117. Aside from the fact that they were mothballed already in 2001,
let's also forget for a moment that the SR-71 is not a pure stealth
aircraft in the sense of the B-2, and that at point blank range...
Well, I'm no expert, but I'm having doubts as to whether it would be
invisible on Radar.
As others have pointed out, the repeated references to "F-15s" when
they were showing F -16s was laughable. Details of the 747 were pretty
stupid. No airline would put that few passengers on a 747 to begin
with, not to mention everything else that was idiotic about it. Pay
attention to the use of exposed electrical wiring.
Wow. What a show. Catch it on Stars or something. Don't pay to rent it,
but do watch it for laughs. In contention for worst movie ever, right
up there with No Holds Barred, which at least had some originality.
5 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
spoiler alert ... but don't worry, spoilers can't make this movie any worse ..., 18 August 2005
Author:
kazaadude2000 from Philippines
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Besides all of the technical mistakes ....
How about a female flight attendant who's able to kill, all by herself,
4 out of the 7 terrorists (including ex marines), 2 of whom without
even using a gun. Then, she lands the plane perfectly. We're not
talking about Sigourney Weaver or Linda Hamilton; we're talking about a
regular, frightened, yet very well composed flight attendant. :D How
about the leader in charge of the assault/rescue squad, having a
full-proof (according to the logic of the script) plan of sleep-gassing
everyone and having someone from his team fly the plane. Only he
decides at the spur of the moment to change plans and instead lead an
attack on the terrorists, guns blazing, not knowing where the
terrorists are, or how many, and not securing a position of advantage,
so that his whole team gets easily wiped out. Yeah, that's using the
old noggin. Only later to decide to use the sleep gas anyway. And it
turns out useless for all intensive purposes.
Bad as this movie was, though, I couldn't stop myself from watching and
wondering, what next? :D I can't help but imagine all the excellent,
unemployed script writers thinking to themselves, it's not fair. lol!
:D
3 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
i still cant believe, 9 January 2008
Author:
Gosusager from Portugal
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
I ve finished seeing the movie 10 minutes ago..WoW i still cant believe
what i've watched.
This is absolutely the worst movie EVER. If i would list all the flaws
in the movie , this review would take me a lot of sentences.( very
funny flaws, because of being that bad though)
You got to be Amazed with the skill of the commandos assigned to rescue
the plane. they didn't even know how to move.
Ice-t is so bad actor... and the thing i don't understand, is how the
production wanted him to be like a hero, but he's a zero..
of course the major flaws will be the landing of an 747, needing only 3
or 4 tips from a guy in transmission to land the plane...amazing.. as
well as the dead bodys that had almost no blood at all..
But i strongly recommend of watching this movie, as its very
interesting to see how bad can something get
4 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Top 5 worst movie ever!, 26 August 2005
Author:
masterdrew from Netherlands
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This has to be one of the 5 worst movies ever made. The plot looked intriguing like that of Passenger 57. But with the latter movie it somehow worked a lot better. The plot has been worked out in the worst possible way. Just a few of the awful moments in the movie, A flight attendant is standing in the opened doorway of a flying 747 and trying to close the door without being sucked out by the 250 mile per hour winds?!? Thereafter the lands the aircraft from a few miles out starting at 8000 feet, thats impossible even for 747 pilots with thousands of hour experience. When on the runway (perfectly straight of course) she is instructed to pull on the flaps, HUH!! Come on flaps are there to ensure lift at low speeds, when on the runway you use thrust reverse on the engines and give maximum power! I can go on and on about little and mostly big mistakes in the movie, but then my reply would become the size of the English dictionary. This is a movie you want to miss, take my word for it!
2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
lord have mercy, 9 November 2006
Author:
David (classical2c@yahoo.fr) from montpellier, France
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
When i come on IMDb boards,I'm always fed up when i see a "the worst
movie ever" post.After watching this *movie*,i think that i am soon
going to create my own post!!
The opening titles:great,some kind of lame zoom on a gas oven
(yeah,focus on the fire=explosions=great action packed movie!!)
The actors:I think that Ice T is a cool rapper,even a nice actor
(sometimes, i insist,"sometimes") but the Steven seagal like policeman
he plays is...beyond the words. The rest of the cast is...well i don't
know where those actors were hired but jeez!!I bet my dog would have
been a much better actor than them!!
The plot:Hijacking.original isn't it??
The action sequences:The first shot of the movie is an explosion.I told
myself,well, cool!!At least there will be some nice pyrotechnics...I
was dead wrong.The rest of the movie is mostly filled with low rent
stock shots taken from the Air Force...
The dialogs are hilarious,the music is pure crap,the end is happy( i
mean i was happy at the end because the movie was over!!!)
My cousin who was watching the movie was delighted( I'm 22, she's
42...well).I was on the verge of taking the movie and burn it.Maybe
next time I'm gonna watch it...(who said never???)
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