ThedevilChoose 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.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Michael_Elliott The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)1/2 (out of 4)An American company buys a Concorde jet and they plan on making the first flight to Paris and then to Russia. The only problem is that a group of people has some secrets and they decide to try and bring down the plane, which causes Capt. Joe Patroni (George Kennedy) to become a STAR WARS pilot.THE CONCORDE... AIRPORT '79 would bring the franchise to a crashing halt. Even before it hit theaters the film pretty much became known as a bomb and once the public got to it the film was over. The incredibly awful reviews led to a really bad box office total and that was the end of the series. Since then the film has become known as one of the worst ever made and rightfully so.The most shocking thing about this movie is the fact that someone read the screenplay and gave money for it to be filmed. I guess there's a chance that the studio thought people would watch anything with the AIRPORT title but the film is certainly one of the dumbest that you'll ever see. I said STAR WARS earlier because some of the action scenes appear to be wanting to be like that George Lucas film.Some of the action scenes are embarrassingly bad including the ones where the plane comes under attack by some missiles. Seeing the plane fight off these missiles was just so bad that you couldn't help wonder what the filmmakers were doing. Even worse is the fact that the direction is so poor that there's never any suspense during any of the scenes and even dumber is how the screenplay has all sorts of things going wrong with the plane.The lack of any suspense is what really kills the film and makes its long running time seem even longer. The only nice thing I could say about the picture is that it at least let Kennedy upgrade to the lead role but then again he's no match for Dean Martin, Charlton Heston or Jack Lemmon. Kennedy is at least good here and you've got a wide range of other notable stars who show up. Can you believe there are three Oscar-winners in this mess?THE CONCORDE... AIRPORT '79 is an awful picture but I guess we should all be grateful that it was so bad since we did get AIRPLANE! because of it.

jmillerdp When you have the hilarious turkey that is "The Concorde...Airport '79!" See what I did there? Used three dots in my title, just like the movie did! And, you know what? Both make as much sense as this movie does! They obviously spent a reasonable amount of money on this movie. So, why have such a hilariously bad script! As it is too often, it's the script that cripples the movie.The premise isn't the worst. What is the problem is that there isn't just one disaster, there are three. And, the trick is that the first two happen on the U.S. to France leg of the trip. Even though the plane has to do loop-de-loops to avoid missiles on both occasions, and the plane was under attack, everyone pretty much gets back on for the France to Moscow leg! What are the odds? Zero, of course! Take a wild guess about what happens on the second leg? Hmmmmm... (See, more dots!) It all deals with an illegal arms dealer who wants to kill off his girlfriend, a reporter who is on to his nefarious schemes.A crazy cast is along for the (very bumpy!) ride. Chief among them is George Kennedy, a mechanic in the first three "Airport" movies who is all of sudden a pilot. Okay! That is only the first of many aeronautical inconsistencies. Plus, lots and lots of logical inconsistencies. The main one is, why did I watch this? And, why am I taking time to review it? Oh my gosh! I make as much sense as this movie does! ** (2 out of 10 Stars) ...Yeah, I'm being VERY generous!

Coventry All the entries in the 70's disaster movie franchise "Airport" – a total of four movies spread over one decade – have been chastised by critics as well as regular action movie fanatics for being too grotesque and ludicrous. Me, personally, I liked the three previous installments a lot, but I can't but admit that the swan song in the series is a completely laughable effort. The supposedly adrenalin-rushing script is absurd, the stereotypical characters are cartoonish, the acting performances are wooden and the action sequences are downright hilarious. The set-up and plot of "The Concorde" is faithful to the previous movies. We have a cast full of acclaimed names, often in inferior little roles, and a screenplay that brings together pretty much everything that can go wrong on an intercontinental flight. The prestigious Concorde aircraft is ready to fly from New York to Paris and then onwards towards Moscow in celebration of the 1980 Olympics. One of the passengers is the female journalist Maggie Whelan, who's in possession of some important evidence that will unmask her ex-fiancée Kevin Harrison as an illegal weapon dealer. It's most vital for him that Maggie never reaches Moscow and thus he tries to kill her, as well as the rest of the Concorde passengers and crew, subsequently through nuclear missiles and sabotage. Luckily for the passengers, the Concorde has two of the world's biggest macho men behind the steering wheel with the French Captain Paul Metrand and the American veteran pilot Joe Patroni. "The Concorde: Airport 79" is a dumb and fairly pathetic film, but fortunately enough it remains amusing and never bores for one second. The sight of an hi-tech advanced airplane making loops in order to evade missiles is definitely bad in an entertaining way and the hammy performances of A-list stars are fun to observe as well. Particularly Robert Wagner is tremendous as the villain. With his straight face and eloquent monologues, he represents the prototype of Bond-movie villains and I strongly suspect that Mike Myers hired him to play Number Two in the Austin Powers' movie solely based on his performance here. Alain Delon looks quite bored and soft-erotica star Sylvia "Emmanuelle" Kristel is rather unnoticeable when she keeps her clothes on. Fun bloke George Kennedy is the only actor who appeared in all four of the "Airport" movies, so it's truly a shame that he plays his biggest role in the worst of the series. The dialogs are lame and some of the clichéd sub plots are horrendous (does there really have to be an emergency donor organ transport in every disaster movie?), but I certainly didn't regret the two hours of my life that I wasted on watching this film.

ShadeGrenade 'The Concorde...Airport 79' was the last of the quartet of disaster movies that began with 'Airport' ( 1970 ), based on Arthur Hailey's novel. By the time this one appeared, the genre had run out of puff, as 'Meteor' and 'Beyond The Poseidon Adventure' clearly proved. Crusading television reporter Maggie Whelan ( Susan Blakely ) is given incriminating documents that prove beyond a doubt her lover, Dr.Kevin Harrison ( Robert Wagner ), is implicated in illegal arms sales. He decides to bump her off. Now, if you and I wanted to murder someone, we'd probably hire a hit-man. But that's too simple for Harrison. A real villain through and through; had the make-up department issued him with a false moustache, he'd probably be twirling it like there's no tomorrow.No sooner is Maggie's Concorde in the air than he dispatches robot drones and then armed Phantom jets to blow it to pieces. Luckily the plane is being flown by three brilliant, sex-obsessed men ( played by George Kennedy, Alain Delon, and British actor David Warner ) and they skilfully avoid destruction, before touching down in Paris where the Kennedy character ( 'Joe Patroni' - the only one to appear in all four movies ) makes out with a hooker! Maggie fails to connect the attacks on the plane with the importance of the documents on her person ( some reporter! ), and boards it again to fly to the U.S.S.R. Harrison insists he is innocent and pleads with her not to go. Does she listen? No way! Does he think to shoot her on the spot and spare the passengers his insane revenge plot? No way! The plane decompresses in mid flight and has to touch down in the snowy Russian wastes. Watching this on television, Harrison shoots himself in the head. End of film.Eric Roth ( who later wrote 'Forrest Gump' - another load of cinematic blue ice ) should have blushed with shame for taking the pay check for this farrago, while David Lowell Rich's direction is about as satisfying as airline food. Some fun to be had from the cast though, who include old-timers Eddie Albert and Martha Raye, and a few 'promising-newcomers-who-never-made-it' such as Andrea Marcovicci and John Davidson ( the latter's character seems to have been the inspiration for 'Ted Stryker' of 'Airplane!' ). You will howl at the sheer absurdity of it all, and the sight of a black guy ( Jimmie Walker ) wandering round the plane playing the saxophone while Martha Raye's pensioner forever dashes back and forth to the toilet only adds to the fun. Sylvia Kristel, a.k.a. 'Emmanuelle', looks tasty as the stewardess. You half expect her to rip her clothes off to use the material to make bandages. What David Warner is doing in all this is anybody's guess. He makes an inane speech about a giant banana at one point, and you wonder why his co-pilots feel safe flying with him.As it did not get released in Britain until a year after it was made, it was shiftly retitled 'Airport 80 - The Concorde'. That same year, 'Airplane!' arrived. The 'Airport' series had gotten so unintentionally farcical it must have been hard to tell the difference.I'll leave the last word to Joe Petroni. When the stewardess admires the pilots' masculinity, he replies ( probably the film's single most memorable moment ): "They don't call it a cockpit for nothing, honey!".