FlashCallahan
Flight attendant Teri Holloran thought it would be an easy flight. On board the 747, a few weary passengers are taking the trip home on Christmas. Then four marshals and two convicts board the plane, transferring to Los Angeles. One of the criminals, Stubbs, breaks free. He is taken down, but not before the other man, Ryan Weaver, is set free. Quickly, Teri finds herself alone in the cockpit, the plane's auto-pilot unable to handle the rough weather outside. And as supervisors on the ground fear for the worse, Weaver decides that he wants to go out in a blaze of glory, right into Los Angeles.......This is one of those films that you have to take a huge pinch of salt with to get through. If you haven't seen the film as if yet, chances are you know its a bad movie. But there are bad movies that are really a chore to get through, and there are bad movies like this.This fall into the category of the latter. It's a bad movie for sure, but the second act onwards is just so bonkers, and Liotta so over the top, so hammy, so pantomime villain, you cannot help but enjoy the ridiculousness of it all.It starts off pretty solid, Liotta is pretty sinister as the killer, his portrayal in the first act is that of Ted Bundy, charming, friendly, likable. But he almost turns into a parody once the carnage starts, and if he didn't want to be typecast as the on screen psycho in film, he sure does a good job of making sure he didn't command a big budget movie after this. He certainly goes all Tex Avery, and spouts one liners like his life depended on it.Lauren Holly is OK, but it's no surprise that you haven't heard from her in a while, unless you like straight to Blu Ray trash.The film is a load of rubbish, but it's a lot if fun, even if you wouldn't dare admit it.
Python Hyena
Turbulence (1997): Dir: Robert Butler / Cast: Lauren Holly, Ray Liotta, Hector Elizondo, Catherine Hicks, Rachel Ticotin: Total waste of film that belongs in a trash bin. Lauren Holly plays the stupidest airline stewardess to ever board a plane. She has just ended a bad relationship and not up for the Christmas cheer. Everything is routine until a couple of criminals decked in shackles are brought aboard. She claims that these guys do not look like criminals. That is how stupid she truly is. What does this moron stewardess view as criminal? Predictable elements follow as one of the criminals is granted use of the washroom leading to a shootout until Holly and one of those so-called innocent criminals are left. Director Robert Butler successfully creates a mess by allowing the action to skew out of control. He previously directed the comedy Up the Creek and this is about as hilarious and that is not a compliment. Holly is at her absolute worst as this airhead stewardess. Ray Liotta does his best as the crazed killer but the role creates nothing new thus leaving him as your standard villain. Hector Elizondo plays the standard cop who tries to talk the plane down and other such crap. Even poor Catherine Hicks gets sucked into this garbage. Pointless garbage with flimsy action scenes that unintentionally play off humour such as the plane flying upside down or its wheels snagging a car. This film should be smashed with a rock. Score: 0 / 10
Miguel Straw
I saw the Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 18% audience like, i thought it best to see for myself just how bad this could be... and I assure you its stunk...From the moment (SPOILERS) .....the implausibility of how one of the prisoners uses the soap dispenser to kill one of the guards, then the other whereby reducing a 4 man traveling police team to 2 (plus prisoners)....*(roll my eyes)*to stuffing all the passengers in the back... and killing every one... huh?to the landing, which was really cheesy!this move was as bad (in my opinion) as The Horse Whisperer! The time spent watching the movie to the end... time i cannot get back.... :-) LOL
dwpollar
1st watched 3/1/2009 4 out of 10(Dir-Robert Butler): Good guy turned psycho hijacking a plane movie just becomes a little too all things work out right in the end for me. Sure, we're cheering for the plane to come down and the Lauren Holly character to save the day, but why wouldn't we??--- That's where the movie took us!! Manipulative movie-making at it's best here, but it doesn't make for a good movie. The story starts being about a bad cop planting evidence supposedly on a good guy.(who later turns out to be a psycho) That "good guy", played by Ray Liotta, is taken on a plane from NY to LA to go to his execution. A revolt starts up by another Psycho passenger and then we find out the Liotta character was in on it all along. Lauren Holly, plays a goody-two-shoes flight attendant who just lost her fiancée ( so we're all rooting for her, of course) and probably wants to just get on with the rest of her life but is put in the middle of this. Who do you think becomes the hero in this whole thing?? No- it couldn't be but it is!!(The Goody-Two-Shoes girl!!) There are some funny bits at the end of the movie while Holly is trying to land the plane, but I'm not exactly sure they were what was needed. This really is just a women's version of a guy hero movie, but not good enough for women to respect very much. It will definitely take awhile for the Lauren Holly character to date again after the incident but she knows how to be a Hero!!(Sorry for the sarcasm in this review, I couldn't help myself)
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