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I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

For those folks like me who wonder what anybody connected with his film could have been thinking, I have an answer.The Charles brothers undoubtedly decided to divvy up the writing duties. Since air traffic controlling is a complex area, one 'bro must have said to the other, "Hey, I've got an idea, you do the controller stuff and I'll write the romance part!" When the second bother protested being stuck with the technicalities and jargon (never mind FAA regulations), they decided to flip for who wrote what. The poor loser who got to research this complex and impossibly stressful profession became a bad sport and learned as little as possible. He stole scenes from "The Right Stuff","Top Gun" and "Return To Me", then said, "I'm done!"Meanwhile, the romance guy, having just returned from Maui, spent at least two hours thumbing through tried and true (trite) clichés and tossed several into the pot, making a mell of a hess stew. Nothing blended together, each element was half cooked and inedible.Well, no matter, how could a fast paced romance with proved great scenes (see aforementioned flicks) performed by proved fine actors miss?Well, it certainly did miss; both on a large and small scale. It missed in the outrageous flaunting of FAA and Air Traffic Control regulations, and in Angelina Jolie's lips, for God's sake! I just couldn't get past those smackers. Do you guys find kissing watermelon halves sexy? Maybe with salt.The insulting and appalling ending was for sure texted in from another vacation spot; for nothing in this movie was treated with knowledge or respect; most of all the stunned audience.

Actually, the movie is about a cheating husband and this isn't the kind of movie that appeals to me. Those scum are already impossible to support in real life so it's wasted time to make them "hero" of fiction. As I know one (a "colleague" of a dear friend), the portrayal is here accurate because those cheaters are indeed shining hypocrites: they benefit the distress of their "prey" to pass for kind humanitarian whereas they care only for their ego and libido! With no surprise, the movie is split in two parts: the exhilaration of cheating and after being consumed, the painful consequences. To anime this drama, the feminine cast beats their male counterpart: Cusack is a smooth actor (not awful, not genius) and Thorton rejoices my list of arrogant, spoiled irritating actors (with Pitt, Walberg, Farell, Foxx). unfortunately, Angie and Kate are underused.Finally, the movie is not really interesting: the good moments are actually showing the outback of New York and great planes animation flying over Manhattan and the WTC!

John Cusack stars as Nick 'the zone' Falzone, an air traffic controller who orchestrates thousands of safe plane landings every year . The flame of his marriage dimmed out a little throughout the years but basically he's got all his ducks in a row, having mastered his job and being the undisputed king of his workplace. A series of opening-scenes document Nick as a popular jester and a charming womanizer. Confidence, popularity and fulfillment are the keywords. He's always been the pilot of his life, skilfully steering it away from near-crashes or even turbulence, however it goes into a tailspin when new colleague Russell Bell (Billy Bob Thornton) joins his work group. Their rivalry drives both men to the edge of lunacy, they strain every nerve to annoy each other and what starts out as innocent taunting turns into mean-spirited attacks. When Nick sleeps with Russell's wife(a seductive turn by Angelina Jolie) both marriages threaten to fall apart and Nick's fear of reprisal combined with the high stress factor of his profession - uneasy lies the head that wears the crown - start to prevent him from competently executing his job and lives hang in the balance...The setting's well-chosen for the mind games, it's conceivable that battles for the alpha-male position take place in stressful, highly competitive work environments, in this case air traffic control, where the air is loaded with more testosterone and adrenaline than among firemen or wall street traders. Anti-stress devices and methods grace the screen abundantly, from biceps-training hand pumps and stress relieving squeeze balls to zany ailments such as letting a landing plane overhead; the turbulence causing one to spin right off the ground into a sort of whirl motion (making for one of the movie's best scenes). A couple of problems stare you right in the face, first of all the rivalry between Cusack and Thornton never takes a sufficiently interesting form. Sure, the relationship isn't completely frictionless but it's hard to believe Cusack ever threatened Thornton's masculinity, whereas it more or less works the other way around. Cusack being his usual smooth-talking charmer seems harmless, and when Tornton admits near the end of the movie he loathed Cusack's character to such degree he scared himself, literally wanting to kill his rival, I didn't believe him for one second.With 2 hours runtime, the film still appears too short to be able to work out all plot lines, the marriage issues subplot never reaches takeoff speed which causes the ending to fall totally flat. If one can turn a blind eye to the less than satisfying resolution, you'll find plenty of subtle comedy treats along the way. 'Pushing Tin' isn't the kind of comedy one can enjoy watching with one eye on the screen whilst doing something else. The fun usually lies in half-sentence jokes, looks between characters and charming one-liners you need to prick up your ears for to catch all subtleties. The sharp dialog ("If you ever want to sleep at night, don't marry a beautiful girl. ") and the cast's performance gives this lukewarm rom-com an edge over it's peers.

Air traffic control isn't so much the subject matter of this film as a metaphor for the life of its main protagonist (ably portrayed by John Cusack) which slowly begins to crumble when a new controller (Billy Bob Thornton) threatens his status as kingpin of the control centre. As such, the film might not quite be what you'd expect, and can't seem to decide whether it's a comedy or a drama while strangely never seeming to be a combination of the two.Air traffic control is apparently one of the most stressful jobs around and, as such, you'd think there'd be a rich seam worth mining, but I can't recall many – if any – other films that use it as the core of their story. I suppose the makers should be given credit for delivering a different setting for their tale, but they really should have worked harder on the character development than they do here. Cusack's character arc is so predictable it's practically a straight line from point A to point B while Thornton isn't really given any character beyond mysterious stranger – with an occasional touch of the mystical thrown in – of few words. This predictability – and the impossibility of getting under the skin of any other character than Cusack's (whose methods of expressing his insecurities, it has to be said, make him difficult to like) – make the film something of a long haul.