Flight of the Phoenix 2004
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Genre:Action ,Adventure,Drama
Release: 17 December 2004 (USA)
Director: John Moore
Stars:Dennis Quaid|Miranda Otto|Giovanni Ribisi Writer:Lukas Heller,Scott Frank Songmaker:Color,, IMDB | Views: 1266 |
Flight of the Phoenix Complete info
Genre :Action|Adventure|Drama
Title :Flight of the Phoenix
Year :2004
Rating :6.1
Duration :113 min
Release :17 December 2004 (USA)
Star:Dennis Quaid,Miranda Otto,Giovanni Ribisi,Miranda Otto,Tony Curran,Sticky Fingaz,Jacob Vargas,Hugh Laurie,Scott Michael Campbell,Kevork Malikyan
Director :John Moore
Writer:Lukas Heller | Scott Frank
Country:English
Language:
Moviescore:47/100
Movie Location:Budget: $45,000,000 (estimated)
Picture Rating:MPAA
Movie Budget:Opening Weekend: $5,019,430 (USA) (17 December 2004)
Movie Gross:Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation , Aldrich Group , Davis Entertainment See more ¯
Movie Company:Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Davis Entertainment
Movie Sound : Color,,
Flight of the Phoenix Tagline : Taglines: Out of the ashes, hope will rise. See more ¯
Flight of the Phoenix Description
Survivors of a plane crash in the Mongolian desert work together to build a new plane.
Flight of the Phoenix Plot
Plot Keywords: desert | survivor | rescue | stranded | captain | See All (111) ¯
Flight of the Phoenix Synopsis
A group of air crash survivors are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no chance of rescue. Facing a brutal environment, dwindling resources, and an attack by desert smugglers, they realize their only hope is doing the impossible... building a new plane from the wreckage of the old one. Written by austin4577@aol.com
Flight of the Phoenix Critics
Like the original, this is about plane crash survivors rebuilding their plane in the desert for a desperate escape plan. Like the original, the pilot has a conflict with the slide rule man who designs planes. Unlike the original, it is horribly written, horribly directed, and horribly acted. Three strikes, you're out. There just isn't anything going for this movie. First, it is horribly directed. We don't understand what is going on. The sound is so horrible, we can't understand what half the characters are saying, and surprisingly some of the minor character actors can enunciate, although few of the leads can. We are supposed to automatically know who everyone is, and what they're doing. This wouldn't be so bad, except the director indicates during the movie that we do know. Few things are more pathetic than having to explain your plot by having cronies in an audience do it for you. For example, the pilot walks after one man to bring him back (which was kind of silly in the original version, but at least explained by the fact that the first man had no water), and finds a dead man in a site visited by nomads, who is dead, and the man who walked off says he won a radio from him in a card game. No, it doesn't make any sense, you're right. Second, it is horribly acted. Quaid can't be blamed for lacking charisma, but he can be blamed for not being able to act. His cockpit lines sound like lines being read off a script. Very pathetic. In fact, all of the actors are very pathetic. But it isn't all their fault, because the third fault is horrible writing. These are all one dimensional stereotype characters we could care less about, and we even have the bigger clich‚ of the ones we care the least about being the survivors. I don't pan movies for being remakes, and try to be forgiving, but a remake should at least be as good as the original or offer something more. POSEIDON wasn't great, but it took some risks and tried a fresh approach. DESYAT NEGRITYAT was undeniably the greatest version of AND THEN THERE WERE NONE, after at least 4 American movies of that title bombed out. However, too many remakes are simply pathetic. This is one of them.
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