Airspeed

1998
3.7| 1h38m| PG| en
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When wealthy executive Raymond Stone sends out his private plane to pick up his spoiled teenage daughter, Nicole, and a pair of his top-ranking employees, disaster strikes. While the jet flies through an electrical storm, the pilot and other passengers are incapacitated, and Nicole is left on her own to keep the plane in the air, guided by an air traffic controller. Can the irresponsible and panic-stricken teen find a way to land the jet?

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Also starring Bronwen Booth

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Mjeteconer Just perfect...
Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good
Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
mjorgensen62-40-114257 Many movies have earned the title of "Worst..." acting, directing, writing, casting, or special effects. Well...this one wins in ALL categories. The premise is preposterous. The acting is horrendous. The special effects are non-existent -- and covered up by badly-lit night-time scenes. It's a good thing Elisha Cuthbert grew into a great body, because she couldn't get far with the level of acting here. Joe Mantegna looks like he's trying to find the emergency exit -- from the film! All in all, this would have been a great "After School Movie" designed to empower tweener girls that they, too, can solve all the problems in the world -- world peace, landing airliners, well you get the idea. If I were Joe Mantegna, I'd remove this film from my resume'.
boardmandj I work nights, so my nights off are filled with bad movies and infomercials at 3am. Airspeed was actually kind of fun in a "Mystery Science Theater 3000" sort of way. I never expect depth and find new ways to amuse myself at the absurdity. This movie is a stereotype, as mentioned in the other reviews. I won't rehash. That being said, most movies expect you to suspend disbelief for a little bit in order to enjoy the flick. I couldn't get past the fact that at 20-30,000 feet above the earth, the temperature of the air is beyond normal "cold" and a big hole in the plane would depressurise the cabin, sucking everything out into the big blue yonder. At skydiving height, yes, you can do neat heroic things like run a guy wire from one plane to the other and save lives. You can peek outside the back of a low flying aircraft like in the old war movies. Not on a jet. Sorry folks, it's not going to happen. Everybody would turn blue and die. Even the cute little girl who almost fell through the hole, lost a shoe to the great beyond, but managed to push herself away so she could get up and move about the aircraft. If it COULD be done, I do believe there are people insanely heroic enough to jump across on a tether and save the day...but not on this planet. Aside from that...one of the better flicks I've seen. I'd rate it up there with the USA Network movie called "Class Warfare". I was half asleep and missed seeing the contrived ending to that movie 10 minutes into it. I like it when movies can trip me up like that.
insidegarden Wowwwwwwwww, what a great great movie!!!! I think this is the best movie that I have ever seen... You know, I only watch crap movies, so thats why I like it so much. It absolutely one of my favorites together with, roadhouse, the postman and the giant spider invasion!! But what I really love is the reaction down below of this certain person called 'StakeNCross (mapleleaf42678@yahoo.com)'. I just want to thank this person for making everything around this movie complete. The comment of StakeNCross was the only factor that was missing, a dumb stupid idiot that really thinks the movie is of a good quality.... oh.... thanks again!! Also love the reaction of Ian Witham, well the only thing I want to add to that comment is that it is also a shame the heroine didn't use the baseball bat on StakeNCross!!!!If someone knows any other movies that are made by this director? Please let me know!!!
thundertom Okay, I came in late from work, and didn't feel like sleeping yet. So I decided to check what was on TV. Great, a movie just started, I guess I'll just watch that, since there wasn't anything else on. Little did I know then.In short; this movie really, really, and I mean really sucks. And I've seen a lot of movies.It all feels like you've seen it before, like in an 80's action movie.If there was a computer program, to auto-generate and airline disaster movie, this would probably be auto-generated with the following settings; (O=unchecked X=Checked)X Rich-girl misunderstood by daddyX MoralX Weird Radio-tower guyX Far-fetched rescue-plan ends up saving the day after allO Involving story-lineO ActingX Crappy computer-animations or modellingX Yes, Generate this low-budget movieO No, save the world from this load of ****Unfortunately, they pressed "Yes"