I love a good disaster movie and I find it that Gerard Butler always delivers. This movie is very straightforward yet keeps me intrigued. It is very raw in its level of gore and does not shy away from blood, which is refreshing. Most movies would rather be flat and PG13 than get a rating at the risk of losing cinema viewers. This is without a doubt an adult movie but in the era of streaming, I assume that all ages will still be watching.
Sprinkled throughout is a lot of cheese and very emotionally dependent scenes that are somewhat uncalled for. I find that this is part of the charm of action flicks like this. We want the protagonist to succeed – of course we do, it’s Gerard Butler. I’m a sucker for every aspect of this film. Aviation is a very interesting way to isolate people from the world and a plane is one of the most suspenseful situations because it takes immense skill to get under control. If there is an issue while the plane is in the air it is automatically dramatic.
We don’t get a close connection with the civilians which doesn’t affect the movie poorly, they are just civilians. Gerard is our hero and he is here to save the civilians and we just want to see him be cool – most accurate tagline for this movie. For the viewer who enjoys action movies, I strongly recommend this movie – pure fun with all the dumb tropes it comes with.
7/10