Leofwine_draca
CRASH LANDING is a cheapo DIE HARD on a plane type film which runs out of steam around two-thirds in, turning into a cheapo disaster-type flick instead. Although it's pretty shoddily made and offers only mild entertainment value to the seasoned viewer, I have to say that it's the best film I've seen from B-movie director Jim Wynorski to date.An ever-youthful Antonio Sabato, Jr. stars as a security guard working aboard a private plane that gets taken over by a terrorist gang. The usual low-rent shoot-em-up heroics ensue, all of them handled adroitly by the cast and crew; there's absolutely nothing here we haven't seen before, but the pot keeps on bubbling merrily away nonetheless.Sadly, once the terrorist stuff is dispensed with, CRASH LANDING takes a nose dive for the worse, and even the presence of tough guy actor Michael Pare can't save it. Instead, we're bombarded with cheesy CGI effects and some hilarious plot holes (wait until you see what happens - or rather doesn't happen - to the pilot!). This hardly makes for a great film, but I've seen plenty worse recently so it didn't appear to be too bad overall.
bkoganbing
Someone dusted off one of the old Airport scripts and decided to make a film of it in 2005. Though it was a genre left in the Seventies I have to admit that while quite unrealistic it sure did make for some exciting viewing.Billionaire Kevin Dobson charters a jumbo 747 for his bratty and spoiled daughter Briane Davis and the passengers are her equally spoiled and rich friends on a private party from Los Angeles to Sydney, a nice 13 hour flight. Hired to go along is Major Antonio Sabato, Jr. who is on ice as it were waiting out a hearing about a difficult Crash Landing he made.Who'd have thought his piloting skills as well as fighting skills would be needed. A group of terrorists kill the flight crew and board in their disguises and take over the plane. The object being one hefty ransom for Davis from Dobson. In that really big plane Sabato leads Davis to safety and then starts doing a number on the terrorists that would make Lorenzo Lamas sit up and take notice.Also helping out on the ground is an army team on a small atoll led by Michael Pare who race against time to clear a runway.I have to admit the film while not the greatest had a nice level of Indiana Jones type excitement. All the film needed to be an Airport sequel was George Kennedy as Joe Patroni.
disdressed12
i guess the problem i have with this movie is i have seen it before,and it's done better every time.for a movie about a plane being hijacked,this one has pretty much no thrills or excitement.and the acting is not the best i have seen,to be polite.i found the dialogue cringe worthy for the most part.and there doesn't seem to be a lot of realism to it either.EchoBridge has something to do with this production.i have seen a fair amount of their movies,and other than this one,i have thought they were well done.but everyone is entitled to a misstep now and then.besides,this is just my view of the movie.i would'nt say this is an awful movie.it's just nothing new for the genre,and it is pretty slow.i guess i'd give Crash Landing a 4.5/10
jonjo62
I can't believe that someone actually paid to have this film made. Stupid, unrealistic, and stereotypical. Right from the take off of the massive 747 the pilot pulled the throttles back to increase speed. then you have 5 armed persons with semi to fully automatic weapons firing without so much as one bullet breaching the walls of the pressurized cabin at 38,000 feet. Then once below in the belly of the plane a stray bullet hits a FUEL line and we see the fuel leaking from the side of the plane. The acting was just horrid and forced. There just didn't seem to be any direction. I have seen some pretty horrid B movies in my lifetime but with the names that were in this film I was extremely disappointed.
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