Gerard Butler Film, Title Inside

[jonamok]

Proof if it was needed (it wasn’t) that RT is a fucking stupid system to gauge the comparative quality of anything.

[IcEBuRN]

Sitting on 6.9 on IMDB. Admittedly only 4k votes so far, but that's a very healthy score.

[squirtle]

Looks perfect for a Saturday night to me. 

[makkuwata]

My parents are taking my 87yr old Granda to the cinema for this today. I guess I’m streaming it at some point to be part of the conversation.

[Opinionated Ham Scarecrow]

For any filthy, dirty, thieving swines out there, this has 'released'

[Girth Certificate]

On 25/12/2022 at 15:57, Girth Certificate said:

Should’ve been Passenger 58

 

no. Pishenger 57

 

Passenger 57 has a 38% on RT which is complete bullshit.

[makkuwata]

On 01/02/2023 at 15:18, makkuwata said:

My parents are taking my 86yr old Granda to the cinema for this today. I guess I’m streaming it at some point to be part of the conversation.

Apparently my Aunt and Uncle went as well. They’re both cinephiles who should really know better - their company has done PR for the local NI chain Moviehouse for as far back as me getting to see Jurassic Park a month early when I was 7.
 

My Uncles take was ‘dumb fun’ but that ‘Gerard Butler does a terrible Scottish accent.’

[Stopharage]

I saw this on Wednesday. The script is pretty diabolical although why would you expect better? There is a kind of 'cheat code' plot device which makes the latter part all very predictable and fairly dumb. It flew along at a fair old pace and is the kind of film you'd pick up at Blockbusters when you couldn't agree on a proper film to watch. Gerald Butler's character also makes crash landing look ridiculously easy. Utter nonsense but a diverting enough slab of nonsense. 

[Monkeyboy]

Decent opening, I thought. But the rest of it is missing a certain something, even though some of the action is quite good (the sniper shots are very Rambo-esque). I have a grudging admiration for how Butler seems to have carved out his own B-movie niche. But ultimately, this was a rather plain movie.

 

2½ out of 5

[Opinionated Ham Scarecrow]

I really enjoyed it. Yeah, I'm not going to claim it's some classic movie, but the two hour run time sped on by and it was a good time. Kinda had an 80's Bruce Willis feel to it.

 

 

 

[squirtle]

Got this for tonight. Seems like perfect Sunday night fodder.

On 28/01/2023 at 12:26, squirtle said:

Looks perfect for a Saturday night to me. 

 

Did you hear that, two weeks ago me!? Sunday night fodder!

[makkuwata]

Ship.

[Monkeyboy]

[Ork1927]

I saw this last week in 4DX (wasn’t in 3D) in the middle of the day and I was only one in the screening.

 

I enjoyed it - slightly enhanced by the 4DX making the opening plane sequence more tense (and it was nicely tense anyway) and then you can’t beat the water in 4DX used for blood splatter later in the film. - but, It rattled along, there was some good action and the end was nicely violent and a bit ludicrous.

 

 

[squirtle]

Yeah, this was pretty good. 

[theredstar]

On 04/02/2023 at 23:02, Opinionated Ham Scarecrow said:

I really enjoyed it. Yeah, I'm not going to claim it's some classic movie, but the two hour run time sped on by and it was a good time. Kinda had an 80's Bruce Willis feel to it.

 

 

 

Spot on. Although for a full 80’s experience, the main baddy should have hung on to the front wheel, then tried to kill Gerard Butler at the end.

 

Only to be shot by a wisecracking sidekick.

[Ketchup]

I enjoyed Olympus has fallen a lot, the sequels less so and so I was hoping this would be a bit like Olympus.

 

Its alright, and yeah it’s silly action for the most part but I wish a few of the dialogue choices and maybe scene moments had been better.

 

The plane coming in for a crash landing, fine but the way it was handled just seemed really dumb. The fact the airline was doing the whole search and rescue mission also seemed really odd. I don’t think you’d have even had to change much just make the things they’re doing seem a little more realistic and less corny and it’s have just made for a better film.

[Loik V credern]

The most basically plotted film, pilot takes off with passengers, poor weather, lands in road strip of jungle you've seen in many other films, calms down passengers who don't seem appreciative they're alive and who none are given personalities, pilot goes off to find a radio, does so and person on the other line thinks it's a prank caller because they've been getting so many all day! Of course, never seen that in an action film before. He calls family and tells them the location just before some random baddie comes out of nowhere and starts a fight. Tussle ensues and protagonist comes out on top after some desperate choking that he kind of regrets. Baddies discover passengers, protagonist unable to help and sad about it. Passengers get locked up, pilot protagonist goes off to get them out. Does so, sacrifices himself, moments before he's about to die of course a shot is fired out of nowhere, more violence, back to plane, fly away, land, credits.

Ultimately some films are for kids who haven't seen the same tropes dozens of times before. Butler said that the film harks back to old style 80s action films but it doesn't. There's no cartoonish baddie, it's not silly or outlandish in any way, there's not even any love interest.

It really lacks personality and because it's so predictably plotted it lacks any dynamism. It attempts plenty of emotion, generic father daughter bond, estranged, sacrifices so daughter can have a better life, teary desperation at being unable to save his passengers, more tears at the end of the adventure of driving from A to B, driving back to A, then driving to C and back to A again. While dodging bullets.

A bland film.

[hmm]

On 13/02/2023 at 19:19, Ork1927 said:

I saw this last week in 4DX (wasn’t in 3D) in the middle of the day and I was only one in the screening.

 

I enjoyed it - slightly enhanced by the 4DX making the opening plane sequence more tense (and it was nicely tense anyway) and then you can’t beat the water in 4DX used for blood splatter later in the film. - but, It rattled along, there was some good action and the end was nicely violent and a bit ludicrous.

 

Never been to a 4DX showing but I'm assuming they must have sensors in the seats to only activate the extras for occupied ones or something? Or was there an entire (otherwise) empty cinema getting the full 'immersive' experience?