Butler's pilot Brodie Torrance, who kicked off the flight with some Southwest Airlines-grade jokes over the intercom, executes some macho maneuvering and has his co-pilot Samuel ( Yoson An) clock the ten minutes they have before they eventually crash land on a remote island in the Philippines.ĭuring this tumultuous descent, it's mighty strange when "Plane" shows a closeup of a drafted text message but not long enough for us to read whatever it says. The sequence is cut with a punchy, glad-you-aren't-there intensity, and a couple of illustrative stunts-nasty things involving heads and neck trauma-make a firm point not to test gravity. With more of an air of "I can't believe this bad service," the 14 passengers on board start to freak out progressively things become even direr when someone thinks they can outwit seatbelts. Our main hero-Plane-is struck by lightning in a large spat of brutal weather, knocking out its power and dooming it to an unforeseen landing. Things are looking up for "Plane" when it's gearing up for a big crash. For its junky concept that eventually embraces '80s action storytelling firmer than a handshake in " Predator," there are so many missed moments in which director Jean-François Richet attempts to get a free genre pass isn't so much as coasting but rushing to get itself over with. He's fared better as a last action hero of a certain type of movie, and the biggest problem with "Plane" throughout is that it isn't wilder it does not revel appropriately enough in its open dumbness. This rickety vehicle is produced by Butler, who seems to make these movies to avoid wearing superhero spandex or having to hurl himself off a cliff like Tom Cruise. Add the pitch of Gerard Butler on a self-rescue mission, saving his flight passengers and crew from angry Filipino militants after a crash landing, and the expectations lower themselves. If it can convince you that it's so simple, suddenly all of its laziness with character development, plotting, action sequences, etc., seems quaint, if not knowing. "Plane" is the case of an action movie in which the dumb title-the most memorable thing about it-isn't an artistic statement, it's an alibi.
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