Now, adding complications to the mix is the fact that one of the passengers is a convicted murderer being extradited, Louis Gaspare ( Mike Colter). Once the passengers are out of the plane, there’s a sense of dread as it’s just a matter of hours before the scary bad guys find their location. They are basically terrorists as they see foreigners, even Christian missionaries, as nothing but dollar signs they exploit for ransom money. In any case, the war-torn Southeast-Asian island where the plane lands is controlled by a separatist militia. Thankfully, the second and third acts take place mostly outdoors but it still looks a bit too dark to me. It would’ve been more suspenseful if I could at least see more than just the eyeballs of the actors! I asked the PR company afterward and she said the projector was not the issue, so it could be the case of terrible lighting/cinematography. Now, I have to say my enjoyment of watching this movie is dampened quite a bit by the fact that the movie is so dark, especially during the entire turbulence and crash landing scenes. Borrowing a Malay proverb, it’s like escaping from a crocodile’s jaw and straight into a tiger’s mouth. So pilot Brodie Torrance, along with his co-pilot Dele ( Yoson An) is forced to make a risky landing on an unknown island. But hey, a great deal of suspension of disbelief is required for these types of movies. Now, one doesn’t have to be an aviation enthusiast to know that a lightning strike doesn’t typically cause major damage to most modern planes, and that post 9/11, airline captains would never leave the cockpit to check on passengers. The engines and radio malfunction as soon as the plane gets hit by lightning. It’s ironic that he can’t seem to get away from ‘fallen’ things, as Greenland might as well be called ‘Comet has Fallen’ and this one is, well, ‘Aircraft has Fallen.’ĭirected by Jean-François Richet, the movie doesn’t waste much time before things go awry when the Singapore-Tokyo-bound plane encounters bad weather. Well, Gerard ‘Gerry’ Butler has carved out a sizable niche in the action genre since 300 and the ‘Has Fallen’ franchise since Olympus Has Fallen in 2013. where the action star gets to save the day despite the most improbable circumstances. PLANE is the kind of movie that harkens back to 80s-90s action movies starring Schwarzenneger, Stallone, Bruce Willis, Kurt Russell, Harrison Ford, etc. I even forgot it happened on the same night as the Golden Globes, but y’know what, it ends up being well worth my time. Nonetheless, I was curious where this PLANE movie would land with me. Gerard Butler movies don’t usually fly well with critics.
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