Two aircraft collide mid-air. People on the ground suffer. Arnold Schwarzenegger is old and fat, he should have stayed away for this one.
The residual mumbling, groaning, so called music is oppressive and loud, the dialogue is sparse, uninformative, inconsequential.
The screenplay lost so much potential. From the unfolding of events in the control tower, it seems that the crash was caused by the pilot of one of the planes descending without authorisation into another's flight path. The controller was operating two desks at once, so was unaware of the developing disaster. When he did realise the situation he tried to call one of the planes from the wrong desk, so couldn't be heard by the innocent pilot of the correctly controlled plane he was calling. We were led to believe that the controller took the blame. Most unrealistic.
Our hero, Schwarzenegger, walks away from the derisory compensation offered by the airline for the loss of his family. the Airline executives display corporate hand washing, with the lawyer being a monstrous weasel. There is no further mention of the matter.
Oh, and by the way, during the airport scene, where Schwarzenegger receives medical care after the shock of discovery, no one should expect to gain a blood pressure reading with the cuff applied over the clothing on his arm.
So much of the aftermath was swept under the carpet. The dreary, overstated music was enough to make anyone suicidal or fuelled for murderous revenge.
This may well be the most unrealistic and depressing 94 minutes you could experience this year.
The residual mumbling, groaning, so called music is oppressive and loud, the dialogue is sparse, uninformative, inconsequential.
The screenplay lost so much potential. From the unfolding of events in the control tower, it seems that the crash was caused by the pilot of one of the planes descending without authorisation into another's flight path. The controller was operating two desks at once, so was unaware of the developing disaster. When he did realise the situation he tried to call one of the planes from the wrong desk, so couldn't be heard by the innocent pilot of the correctly controlled plane he was calling. We were led to believe that the controller took the blame. Most unrealistic.
Our hero, Schwarzenegger, walks away from the derisory compensation offered by the airline for the loss of his family. the Airline executives display corporate hand washing, with the lawyer being a monstrous weasel. There is no further mention of the matter.
Oh, and by the way, during the airport scene, where Schwarzenegger receives medical care after the shock of discovery, no one should expect to gain a blood pressure reading with the cuff applied over the clothing on his arm.
So much of the aftermath was swept under the carpet. The dreary, overstated music was enough to make anyone suicidal or fuelled for murderous revenge.
This may well be the most unrealistic and depressing 94 minutes you could experience this year.