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Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying
A passenger of a hijacked airliner who happens to be an airplane engineer works to deactivate a chemical weapons bomb after the hijackers kill the pilot and threaten to kill all the passengers on the plane.
Release : | 1999 |
Rating : | 4.2 |
Studio : | Capital Arts Entertainment, Trimark Pictures, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Tom Berenger Craig Sheffer Jennifer Beals Tamara Phillips Jill Teed |
Genre : | Action Thriller |
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Load of rubbish!!
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
I don't have much to say about this turkey except to watch for one incredible sequence with the terrorist contacting the control tower. The Tower gives the terrorist the usual talk about no negotiations. The terrorist decides he has to show that he means business. But how? His solution? Start tossing people out of the plane. An effective plan right? But that is not enough for this terrorist. He also wants to send a message to the control tower, to express his outrage at their non-cooperation.So, the terrorist opens the hatch and holds his selected victim inches away from doom. Then, as the plane flies over the airport, he carefully and judiciously calculates wind speed, vector problems, and trajectory so that when he drops the poor sap, the body will rip into the Control Tower like a missile. What a math wizard, he does this all on the fly without aid of a calculator.
A Saturday afternoon boring enough to surf all the way down to the WB network.A made-for-TV sequel to a horrible movie, and a surreal semi-prequel to a horrible reality.Strongest Points: Solid, workmanlike performances from a mixed bag of has-beens and wannabees. For the most part, everyone hitting the same tone and rhythm, with no-one seeming to be over or under acting relative to anyone else. No attempt to rely on large scale stunts or effects, and some decent, and wisely brief, hand-to-hand combat sequences.Weakest points: The vaguely Slavic second-string would-be villains are written as such thin caricatures, there is no way anyone could have acted his way out of that hole. And how is it the one Slavic guy can't speak a word of English, but can seemingly understand everything everyone else is saying instantly? The lawyer projectile hurled from the aircraft lands neatly on the console in the control tower right in front of Tom Beringer?OK, now for the REAL reason I bothered to watch and review this turkey: Tom Kenny! This is the second un-credited speaking role in which I have found this versatile utility player best known as the voice of Spongebob Squarepants. The other one was "Escape From Mars" (1999), now listed correctly here at our beloved IMDb.So, just how many more un-credited live action speaking roles has Tom Kenny wedged into his workaholic voice-over schedule? This quest is going to lead me to watch way too many hours of late-night made-for-cable filler.My apologies for the excessive use of hyphenated phrases in this review.
How can you look at this film and not consider it ingenious?!1) I turned this movie on right as they got on the airplane. When the crazy Russian guys entered the plane, the dark and scary music started playing, trying to convince you that it was them who were terrorists. They make it kind of like Air Force One, but a little more prejudiced. 2) As you look at the characters, you can guess the hero of the day is going to end up being Jeffrey Nordling and that the nerdy and weak guy Craig Sheffer is the type of guy that gets killed immediately for disobeying "Elliot's" rules. 3) Was the Russian guy and "British Intelligence" guy in on it together? A:Well they had to be. What "two sets" of terrorists enter on a plane, especially when it happens to be for people who are awarded a free flight for the last flight? B: No Way it can't be. The Russian chap claimed that the other guy was lying. Additionally, the other Russians were dozed by the ice in the water. C: But wait!! They had to be! They both had those ridiculous wolverine-like claws that were incredibly original.4)This plot was simply humorous. An anthrax bomb to destroy everything in a 5000 mile radius. WHATT!!!?!?!?!?! So Random. Hey and remember those claws? That was cool.5) After we discover that Elliot isn't British Intelligence, he changes his accent from that English accent. Clever.6) We can clearly pick up Elliot's inner insanity when he goes "Ok I need a volunteer, anyone? Come on! You all have a right to vote!" That is what I call sweet acting.7)Elliot takes out his anger on the lawyer because he hates all lawyers stereotypically because of his past. Simply Stunning. He throws him out of the plane and he happens to land in the air traffic control center. And what's even more brilliant, Elliot knew it was going to happen as he says something like "send them a message for me!"8) When the girl resists before he tries to throw the guy off the plane, he is already a little angry at her for her little performed plan in the upper compartment. Realistically, he wants nothing to do with her and he goes "will you stop it! UGH! I'm sick of you!" THAT KILLED ME.ONE OF THE FUNNIEST MOVIES I'VE EVER SEEN.
The first Turbulence movie really reeked (ie. it stunk out the whole cabin), mostly because there were large portions of the movie where nothing much exciting happened. They fixed this problem for Turbulence 2 with wall-to-wall non-stop heart-pounding action. OK, the action isn't heart-pounding but it's certainly wall-to-wall. There's always somebody fighting, running away, chasing, blowing something up, shooting, dying, trying to escape or, of course, flying the plane in turbulent conditions. Oh yeah, and falling...The wall-to-wall action is flanked closely on both sides with wall-to-wall stupidity, but to its credit the movie does not take itself too seriously. How could it? A fear of flying group takes a ride in a plane with a bunch of terrorists with a bomb on board which then heads towards a storm. Ha ha, yeah right. Now, it's up to the fear of flying passengers & crew to save the day which they do with varying degrees of success. When ANOTHER crew member gets shot attempting to overthrow the bad guy the bad guy says something along the lines of "Aargh! what's wrong with you people?". It's delivered beautifully.Actually, the acting in general is really very, err, well capable. I was going to say good, but in the context of this movie it wouldn't quite fit. I'm only giving this movie 4/10, but it's a fun 4/10. Chill that beer, microwave that popcorn, hand over your $2 to the video shop, switch off brain, press play, enjoy.