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Genres:
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Action /
Adventure /
Drama /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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John Moore
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Actors:
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Jared Padalecki,
Kevork Malikyan,
Martin Hindy,
Anthony Wong,
Paul Ditchfield,
Bob Brown,
Dennis Quaid,
Tyrese Gibson,
Giovanni Ribisi,
Miranda Otto,
Tony Curran,
Sticky Fingaz,
Jacob Vargas,
Hugh Laurie,
Scott Michael Campbell
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Duration:
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113 min.
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Rating:
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(6/10)159.5
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Plot Summary:
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A set of air crash survivors are stranded in the Mongolian empty with no prospect of rescue. Facing a uncultivated environment, dwindling resources, and an attack by what's coming to one smugglers, they make a reality their only hope is doing the hopeless... erection a new plane from the wreckage of the old one.
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Its a shame movies have to be 120mins long....
Because if this one lasted an hour it would be great. The set pieces are mostly very tense and entirely gorgeous to look at, and some of the dialogue is equally as involving. One action/face off scene, set to Massive Attack's 'Unfinished Symphony', is astonishingly effective; but, like the film as a whole, goes on for way too long, and as a result feels like a 1 minute idea stretched to fill 5. Quaid is predictably dependable, Ribisi is excellent as always, and the rest just make up the numbers. Have a watch if you've got time fill, skip it if you've got a short concentration span!
Embarassing cringe-worthy nonsense
With a top cast and a budget larger than the national income of an African nation, I popped Flight of the Phoenix into the DVD player, releaxed back into my chair and waited to be impressed. Nevertheless, 'the best laid plans o'mice an' men gang aft a-gley'. Two hours of my life, which might better have been employed doing almost anything else, were spent watching one of the most cringeworthy films ever made. Scott Frank, the screenwriter, should shoulder much of the blame - the plot was 'flimsy', the characters 'two-dimensional' and the dialogue - well that was just embarassing. In short, it looks as if the writer of The Interpreter, mind-melted with an 8 year-old.
Avoid this film at all costs. You'll just encourage them.
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