What true terror looks like

Rating: 8/10 (10 May 2016)

I mean True Terror in a good sense. Some scenes in this movie are actually horrifying both psychologically, and visually. Two scenes that stand out the most are the plane crash scene and the subway crash scene. The plane crash scene starts off normally with there being a small car collision that is blocking a highway, and nick cage goes to investigate. The police officer assures cage that there is nothing to worry about, and then suddenly, the police officer's face fills with terror and runs away yelling at everyone to get down. When cage turns around, he is shocked to see a commercial aircraft banking down on a descent and hit a power line on the way down. Everyone ducks for cover as one of the wings of the airplane drags across the highway flipping cars with debris flying everywhere. Then finally the plane lands and explodes into a large fireball. Cage runs to the crash site to try to help people, during which he sees people who are on fire, people who are screaming, and more explosions. The way this scene is filmed is especially what makes it so terrifying. There seems to be a darkened filter over the footage along with some rain. Also, the camera angles add to the darkness effect since the scene is shot like a terrified bystander is holding a 500$ camcorder that keeps zooming in and out and shaking the camera as he or she walks.