FX_Lord Beginning on a dark and dreary night, the voice of Mark Hamill can be heard quoting a line attributed to Edmund Burke I believe. This is perhaps the most promising part of the film, implying a dark and sinister plot. From there on in, it's downhill I'm afraid.We begin on the last shift of Mark Hamill's air traffic controller, in a British airport less busy than Blackpool Airport at 2 am. Seriously, the extras budget for this film seemed none existent.This is also true on the plane where an extremely small band of passengers for a 747 board a flight to New York - the flight crew almost outnumber them.One gets the sense watching these characters interact that they were all cast individually, with absolutely no chemistry between the characters whatsoever. Even the extremely rapid sex scene, with its obligatory breast shot, is unbelievable for that point.When one passenger wakes and the annoying guy who was sitting next to him is missing, instead of breathing a sigh of relief or assuming the guy has gone the toilet, this character entirely over-reacts to his absence. And I'm afraid that this pattern continues throughout the film with each reaction to somebody missing coming far too quickly, and the action being ramped up in a forced manner.The notion that the plane, which can't be shot down because it has entered South American airspace, can be communicated with from the UK was one of the many unbelievable facts that this film asks us to swallow.Mid-way it is revealed that the disappearances are all down to an attempted robbery but, by the time we've come to accept that idea, they throw another twist in involving a relic that apparently possesses the spirit of a God and has been killing off the people that our robbers didn't.Sigh...The script is overloaded with plot which I suspect may have something to do with how lacking it is in character development. I felt quite sorry for Mark Hamill as he played his role quite sincerely on the ground, possibly unaware of the garbage that was happening on the plane. I only hope he was paid well.It felt like someone, one week, was given access to a flight simulator and dragged whatever cast they could get together and wrote an awful script, then filmed it.Like I said in my title: With a better script and a better cast, this could have been a good film. Alas, it wasn't and I'm being generous giving it a 4 out of 10.

bababear Early in watching this I thought I'd found a neglected gem. There's a very solid cast. The production values, while not spectacular, are all right. But in an extremely short running time the story spins totally out of control.The action starts takes place over the course of a dark and stormy night. Right that. The various characters are introduced and we learn a little of their background information. One character, a very self centered and aristocratic man traveling with two bodyguards, quickly is at the head of the list of characters we want to see die horribly.At first we seem to be in Agatha Christie territory. But too soon we realize that things, well, just don't add up. This particular flight to New York is the sole flight taking off that night- all others have been indefinitely delayed due to weather- and it's a huge jetliner about to fly to North America with about a dozen passengers and seemingly acres of empty seats.A few characters disappear mysteriously. Where could they have gone? Could there be a killer among the crew or passengers?Then a supernatural element rears it head. There's a vase on board that's valued in the millions and just may be the residence of a demon.Then, in the third act, the story turns flat out ridiculous. The control tower at the airport is commandeered by a government agency that eventually decides that the flight must not ever land and is going to use military jets to ensure that it never reaches its destination.And then the story gets even sillier.In case anyone wants to watch AIRBORNE I'll leave the final revelations hidden. But the sum and substance is that I watched this on my computer using Netflix and still felt that I'd been robbed.However, I'll admit that it could have had a few more clichés. There are no children on board, no adorable old couples, no nuns, and none of the characters ever burst into song. That said, I'm sure that there are many cut scenes of actors choking back laughter with varying degrees of success while playing out these scenes.We never see the demon. Stranger yet, we never even see the vase. Thankfully the film's makers have the sense to realize that with their limited resources they couldn't pull off the effects for a demon. But wouldn't some cast or crew member's family have a decent looking Chinese vase they would let the producers borrow?Violence is fairly subdued. The first couple to vanish sneaks into a bathroom to join the Mile High Club, but there's no graphic sex or nudity. There are the inevitable bursts of profanity, proving Cole Porter to be correct that "writers who one knew much better words/Now only use four letter words/Writing prose./Anything goes."Worse yet, the movie is a downer. None of the plot lines come to a satisfying resolution. In the very last seconds there's a hint setting up a sequel. No.

Jackson Booth-Millard It was obvious that when I saw the DVD of this British made scary movie, that despite the good cast of actors, it was an independent and straight to DVD release, and it was admittedly just because of the stars that I was drawn to trying it. Basically it follows the tradition of things like The Twilight Zone, it sees a winter storm approaching, but an airliner takes off despite this, and soon after take-off the passengers realise the plane has hijackers on board who have killed the pilots. The innocents try to go against the terrorists who want to use the plane as a plane, but they are not able to overpower them because of fear, unforeseen incidents happening and violence increasing between them. The airport controllers and staff find out about the problems the plane is experiencing both in the bad weather and inside, so fighter planes take off to follow the aircraft, and they prepare for the consequences of the plane going down if the snow storm worsens or the hijackers was fly it downwards. The passengers argue amongst themselves but try whatever they can to get control of the plane back or escape potential disaster, while the military and airport people on the ground argue about the situation trying to be avoided. Starring Mark Hamill as Malcolm, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' Alan Ford as Max, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade's Julian Glover as George, EastEnders' Billy Murray as Cutter, I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!'s Gemma Atkinson as Harriett, This Is England's Andrew Shim as Sam, EastEnders' Raji James as Kailash, Coronation Street's Chris Brazier as Chris and Craig Conway as Luke. Not even a good cast of recognisable faces could rescue this film from being dull and boring, the stuff on the plane was not shocking, scary or gripping, and the action on the ground was just as uninteresting, I just felt like it wasn't trying to engage and any stupid ideas were thrown in, a rubbish horror thriller. Pretty poor!

Sci-FiHorrorFan This film was a huge let down and the reason it is such a big let down is because i feel this film had potential and it could have been good if the film had been executed right but sadly it just flopped and became too stupid for me. I didn't mind the beginning of this film i actually thought it started off okay,sure the acting is not very good and the characters were kind of weird but i was able to put up with that because i thought the film was going to get exciting and develop a Fun story and it was quite interesting to begin with,i liked the idea of a bunch of people being trapped on an Airplaine and i thought it was kind of interesting when people started disappearing on the Airplaine it kept me guessing as to what was going on and i like that in a movie it makes it suspenseful and suspense is never a bad thing in a film,in fact i quite like suspense in a movie it makes the film more mysterious and thought provoking.Sadly this film took quite a while to get started and that's one of the problems with this film and the other is the characters they all seemed to be one dimensional characters with no personality.at the start of the movie we are introduced to all of them at the Airport,the lazy man the fat man,the red head flight attendant lady and the blonde women, some old guy,and some weird mysterious guy,a couple of Army boys and a few others and i found it sad that their characters were written so poorly. this film had very poor characters but i guess that's to be expected from such a low budget film and Bad writing, but it was still disappointing nun the less because some of the scenes on the Airplaine i quite liked,there was a scene on the Airplaine when a couple were together at the front of the plaine kissing and someone came into their room and they asked the person what's wrong? and we never see the persons face, all we see is the person smack the man in the face with a fire extinguisher!. later in the movie when the man and his girlfriend never return to their seats on the Airplaine its pretty obvious what's happened its obvious that the person from earlier killed both of them and that's why they are not back,and from there onward the story becomes quite predictable and its obvious there is a killer on the Airplaine and the killer is obviously one of the passengers and the viewers have to figure out who it is and i didn't mind that idea because i like whodunit stories but i just felt this one was poorly done,you had so many people disappearing left and right and so many things didn't make sense, also there is this one ridiculous scene in the movie when this fat man goes missing and the people are so stupid that they don't even realise he's gone missing!. None of the characters saw the man leave and none of them even seemed to remember him except for one person!.Also how can a man go missing on an Airoplaine? especially a man as big as him?.It does Not make any sense to me and it doesn't make sense that the killer can kill this man and nobody notices! nobody see's or hears a thing?.How was that even possible? i have No idea.Later in the film a few body's are found and its revealed that someone is killing off the passengers,although they didn't really need to explain that because it was pretty obvious what was going on from the start. This film is very predictable and very flawed and the film has a few plot holes and allot of the characters did stupid things which made me not like any of them,and the one guy i did like who happened to be the lazy guy he then started acting stupid too which made me not like him anymore either, and the ending of this film completely destroyed It!. There are so many stupid twists in this film and things that don't make any sense,but the ending was the worst part of the film for me, its the ending that i hated and found the stupidest!. This film has one of the most ridiculous endings iv'e ever seen!. Please Avoid this film! it is very Ridicoulous! and poorly written.