Altitude

Plot synopsis:
In the prologue, the mother of Sara (Jessica Lowndes) is transporting a family of three (two parents and their son) in a small aircraft. The child is extremely nervous and starts hyperventilating. Wondering why he is so afraid, the parents suddenly see an out-of-control aircraft that crashes into them, and everyone plummets to the ground.
Years later, Sara, who has recently received her pilot's license, is planning to fly to a concert with her friends: her boyfriend Bruce Parker (Landon Liboiron), her cousin Cory (Ryan Donowho), her best friend Mel (Julianna Guill) and Mel's boyfriend Sal (Jake Weary). While in the air, Bruce's nerves draw ridicule from the others and Sara invites him to take the controls. They hit some turbulence and Bruce loses control, taking them into a steep climb.
Sara tries to regain control, but a loose bolt has jammed the elevator. Only able to climb, they fly into a storm and lose radio contact. Sara explains that with the elevator jammed, they will keep climbing until they run out of fuel or reach the aircraft's ceiling. They have less than an hour's worth of fuel left; Bruce has a panic attack and is put to sleep with a choke hold by Sal. In an effort to save fuel, they jettison everything overboard. The only way to unjam the tail is to climb outside and manually remove the obstacle. Cory, who has experience as a climber, volunteers. He has climbing gear with him and a rope for to use as an anchor. Sal wraps the rope around himself and after some difficulty, Cory makes it to the tail and removes the errant bolt. Sal then sees a horrifyingly giant tentacle among the clouds and loses control of the rope. Cory slips and Sal is almost pulled out of the aircraft. Panicking, he cuts the rope and Cory falls, only to be caught by the monster tentacle.
When Bruce awakens, he finds he has been tied up and learns Cory is dead, along with a monster outside. Bruce tells Sara that he was in the crash that killed her mother and his parents. Sara tries the radio again and hears a strange noise. Sal recognizes it as the monster that took Cory. Suddenly, the aircraft crashes into the monster's open mouth. Bruce looks at a page of his comic which shows a blond woman being grabbed by tentacles. Immediately, a large tentacle grabs Mel and kills her. Bruce starts flicking through the comic book, as if he has discovered something. Sal threatens to kill Bruce for causing Mel's death and tries to throw him out, but Sara intervenes and in the ensuing confusion, Sal falls out the door and plummets to his death.
Bruce tells Sara he is causing all this; that his mind is recreating the comic book, something that happens when he gets very scared. The creature starts attacking the aircraft, and Sara demands that Bruce prove he is doing it by ending it all. His attempts just make things worse, until Sara kisses him, but is grabbed by the monster. She tells him that if he can do all this, then he can bring his parents back. After a struggle, the monster suddenly disappears and she falls back into the aircraft. As they fly out of the storm, they see another aircraft heading straight for them, carrying Bruce, his parents and Sara's mother. They manage to take control of their aircraft, and don't crash into the other.
In the altered past Sara's mother and Bruce's family have arrived at their destination intact. Sara's mother says "Everybody gets one near miss, right?", and Bruce's mom asks, "Do you think they made it?" to which Sara's mother replies "I hope so." The young Sara and Bruce are introduced to one another, holding hands and looking out into the sky.

Tags: paranormal

Review:
I'm not going to spoil anything for anyone, so no worries there, as I didn't fully grasp what this movie was trying to be.Little teen/college age horror movie.Little bit of John Carpenters "The Thing" (the tension in a small confined space) A lot of Twilight Zone and Outer Limits.Half a cup of H.P. Lovecraft thrown in for good measure.Then a sprinkle of every over used cliché character in an teen/college age horror movie.Bake at 375 for and hour and a half.Results may vary.Cinematic quality is excellent.
Ending was really not as big of a shocker as others might have you think.All in all, it's a fun way to kill an hour and a half if you don't know anything about this movie...no reviews, don't watch the trailer...etc.
A group of friends take a small airplane to a concert, but soon enough they encounter a supernatural storm that causes them to constantly rise up to a dangerous height.I want my thoughts on this film to be brief: director Kaare Andrews did a superb job of creating a claustrophobic atmosphere, casting bright and beautiful young cast members, and blending horror with fantasy, with a bit of comic book background.
The whole film can be summarized in one line: a annoying female character (Sara), a super-idiot boyfriend of hers, another couple whose roles are no more significant than the baggage in the plane and a disgusting male friend (Sal).Come on, was there a story somewhere?
At no point in the movie, the plane actually looked like flying.
There have been many films, TV episodes which have taken place within a confined area, and the tension can become excruciating.Lifeboat, Midnight (Doctor Who), are just a couple.Altitude - the story of a half dozen teens trapped in a little plane - is NOT one.The director who made this - Kaare Andrews - has made a 'teen' horror film that doesn't try hard to be any better than of the films it desperately rips off - the FINAL DESTINATION films, are just one franchise, which comes to mind.The 'acting' horrendous.
First off the main page reviewer is either very young or very easily pleased and I am only being honest.The Acting was poor the characters you couldn't associate with at all and the entire plot really unreasonable.The characters reacted how not a single human being allowed in their situation would act.It was all a tad bit too predictable and completely unoriginal (So no idea where the main reviewer got the original part hence they must be young and have not seen much to compare) I never bother to right reviews but feel that the main reviewer is a tad bit miss leading and helped me waste some time I can't get back.Instead of one star ill give it three as the movies it ripped off were good lol Overall if your very, very easily entertained and can swallow all kinds of rubbish this is the movie for you..
90210 star Jessica Lowndes takes off onto to the big screen in this very effective and atmospheric supernatural thriller that takes place entirely on-board a small passenger plane, so if you're claustrophobic hold tight as this movie can get pretty breathless and tight.
I think this movie was a straight to DVD, and I avoid them types at all costs, but Altitude caught my attention when I saw those tentacles in the sky and a Kraken like creature roaring in the clouds in the trailer.
This is only made worse by the fact that the acting, dialogue and plot developments do little more than to waste away an hour of the movie before the real events unfold.
Though its not because its fantastic, it was because it was good.What you have here is a minimalist film that doesn't really play off as a big budget film but does very well with what it has.First off, the issues you'll notice are these:The acting is a little off and on, what you get is decent actors that work really well with one emotion but fall flat with something like crying (especially the lead female).
When he starts cracking a little throughout the movie from all the events that are occurring, he switches to a decent level of acting that really isn't that bad.Onto our next issue: The CGI, though by no means terrible, is a bit middle ground.
Another motivation was to see Jessica Lowndes do her character thing as a pilot, and also the surprisingly well done acting on the part of Jake Weary, who plays the part of the quintessential loud mouth, hyper emotional, annoying beer guzzling jerk character.As the plot unfolds into the film, however, the whole story suddenly takes a completely bizarre left turn, which theoretically could have been an interesting "outside the box" twist, maybe .
but here, it just came off as being weird and silly.It's kind of sad, actually, in that the seeds of a potentially good film were firmly planted in the first half, but then it just sagged into an absurd side track which basically ruined the whole viewing experience, which by then seemed like a complete waste of time.However, at the very end of the film, as in just the last couple of moments, the story does suddenly present a very compelling and thought provoking ending, so I'll give the writers some credit where it's due.Sorry to say, this film is in the 5 - 6 category, and that's being generous, but the acting was well done, so I don't want to tarnish their efforts by being stuck with a flimsy, clumsily thrown together screenplay and script..
Even though of short running time, the Director manages to engage the viewers considering the fact that the entire movie was shot abroad a small plane.
But good thing was it has its moments , built up tension , some screams and a kinda good effects for a low budget movie.(FOR STORYLINE: SEE IMDb OF COURSE)But IN my opinion , it was good for a change but could have been lot better if we could see something different in the end which was believable.----- WHO CARES(at least its not a sloppy remake ) STREAM IT OR RENT IT, U'LL NOT ASK YOUR MONEY BACK.
I would prefer to take a nap or surf the web instead of wasting my time watching it.It is not even a good bad movie, you know, sometimes we enjoy watching bad movies, but not this one.I like airplane movies but Altitude is the worst I have seen.
While Browsing titles in your local DVD rental store looking for a cheesy horror flick, your eyes fall on a cover showing a small plane in a storm, with a guy hanging out of it and a giant tentacle ready to grab him.If you rent this movie you KNOW what you are going to see!!!!Furthermore i'll provide some reasons for you to rent it:1.
The movie starts with an intense sequence and after that we are jump into Jessica Lowndes character , who is going to a concert by flying a jet plane with her 4 friends.
The last flaw here is the big set-up in here, as initially this one started out with the utterly- annoying jerks whining and complaining about anything and everything despite the fact that these are supposed to be friends so the way they interact here makes it impossible to care for them at all, a tactic that you see in some many of these kinds of films and that merely compounds the flaws, which is a shame since there's a lot of potential for some fun to happen here.
It's not so much the fact, that the movie seems to rely on a straight horror story.It's not even (only) the awful dialog at times that made the people turn away.
Since the film is about what happens on the plane this is bad news.The story is extremely thin and the beast luring outside is perhaps the one thing that took the creators several minutes to conceive.
i give the movie 2 stars because of the idea of trying something new, but takes 8 stars away from the maximum of 10 because of the story, actors and everything else in this film that makes it what it is!
If you can look past this though the rest of the film seems to work OK, and the characters do display a shine of talent as the movie goes on all except for the main guy who remains constantly with a look on his face like he is not sure he is even supposed to be in the movie Its shot quite well considering the small location required and the effects are not to shabby at all.
Yet, with all the (hilarious) overacting, all the times I wanted these stupid people to just die, already, and the fact that the movie kept getting more and more ridiculous until it reached an almost mythical plateau of absurdity, I didn't hate it.Altitude begins with a group of young adults loading up into a small plane for a trip to a Coldplay concert.
Please don't watch this if you want a solid thriller/horror movie, because your time will be completely wasted.
They set every body else off.How many times have we seen some big-budget sprawling bomb with well-known actors?So this is another of those movies that impressed me in part because it shows that you can do a lot with less if you have good direction, interesting and imaginative writing.
As for the acting its very hot cold it thought the main heroin was a good actress The reason why i was so surprised was because i really like movies and i look into them.
i liked this movie.its not completely original,but than again most movies today aren't.i liked the tense atmosphere it had.it also has some moments that get your adrenaline pumping.the acting was pretty good,in my opinion.there's not much in the way of character development here,since the movie jumps right into the action fairly quickly.but that didn't bother me in this picture.you get enough of sense of each person as the story goes along.the music is not memorable at all,and i'm not sure if that's good or bad.overall,this was not a bad movie.in fact,i'd say it's pretty decent,especially for a lazy weekend,when you have nothing else going on.for me,Altitude (2010)is a 6/10.
The trailer for this movie looked promising, a fun teenage thriller which it managed to be , but nothing special or different and not a big blockbuster.The movie starts of with a background history on the characters and slowly develops to how it effects on the present, The film lacked as the whole movie was based in a plane and no change of scenery or sub plots, the genre does not deliver throughout as the unknown outside the plane is discovered in a not so shocking way, and the movie takes long to gain the main story, the actors did well in filling there roles and managed to throw in a bit of drama and comedy.
I am not going to spoil anything but the movie poster give a little clue.I wonder why is it rated so low on IMDb becoz it's really really great that gives u almost 90 mins full of excitement, the story just go all the way straight, not much stupid talking boring scene, pure action.For people think this movie is similar to "Frozen", but it's totally different and "Altitude" is much much much better and not stupid.Some might think how the story turned to be ridiculous but it's really exciting and very entertaining!
I wasn't expecting the twist at the end of the movie either so in a way it kept me guessing how the characters would get themselves out of the situation, i would have liked to see a bit more of 'the monster' however you get the general idea of what it's supposed to be.The acting is average at best, but the characters created are actually quite good!
The young HOT star of the movie is Jess Lowndes who does a decent job of still looking good whilst crying, and actually i liked both the characters of Bruce played by Terra Nova star Landon Liboiron and the annoying Jock Sal who was genuinely detestable - but obviously that's the point.Negatives: - The threat of 'running out of fuel' panics the crew, yet they're desperate to land the plane!
A group of teenagers go on a small airplane trip; however, midflight they are caught in a strange, supernatural storm as they have to fight for their lives against both a supernatural force and the airplane malfunctions.I came by this film as a recommendation from a friend; indeed, the concept starts off nicely enough and the twists are incredibly well done, complete with a good and somewhat open ending.
The script is very poor, with some of the worst pieces of dialogue I've seen; the characters are overly idiotic and stereotyped, nothing but completely unlikable, angsty and bickering teens, in truth most of the deaths end up as a 'good riddance' moment (I ca't help liking the entity for that).
Things go horribly wrong when they ends up in an endless storm cloud and attacked by a tentacle like squid monster.I checked this flick out because the concept of a giant cthulhu like monster flying around in the sky attacks a plane?
ALTITUDE is a low rent Canadian B-movie set entirely in a single location: a small plane occupied by five of the most annoying teenage characters you'll see on film.
However, the characters are so overdrawn that I started rooting for the storm/monster/fate/whatever.Jessica and Julianna are both good eye candy, and they didn't annoy me all the time, but even their Sara and Mel seemed infected by whatever virus it is that causes movie makers to turn capable actors into cardboard stereotypes and start swapping clichés against each other.
. .THEN I actually WATCHED the movie.What ruined it principally was the casting: No, I don't blame the Actors themselves, but the Character/Plot premise that presupposes that any story stocked with good-looking young adults posing as Teenagers acting out the normal angst, trivia and emotional immaturity of Teenagers is somehow Must-Watch Movie-Making.
If you're going to make a movie about four teens in a small airplane, maybe you could at least do some research on General Aviation 101-- since flying is the entire setting of your film.
For the most part the script actually treads a well-chosen line between teenage banality and the needs of the plot.There are a few corny bits in the dialogue between the 'teenagers', and there is a strong temptation to keep saying to the screen 'so maybe you should fly the plane now?' but this is really the practical result of filming a minimal number of actors in the confines of a 6-seater cabin - if the pilot had to sit in front of the controls facing forward the whole time, she would only have a bit part in the movie!
i incidentally watched this movie this morning as it was the first channel that came up on my foxtel.all and all, yes it is a pretty crappy premise that is turning the twilight zone airplane story into a modern day movie for teens.I also didn't really care much for the main character as he was weird awkward character (or other characters all of which were stereotypes.) But. for some weird reason I still felt the need to watch all of this movie (possibly because I'm mowing the lawn after it)But usually if I'm not liking a movie at least a little bit i change the channel.Plus the ending had that inclusive time paradox kinda feel.Initially i was going to give this a 6, but i think a modest 5 is what this movie is worth.
A weirdo boyfriend, hot chick pilot, bullying sports jock, screaming emo girl and the pointless guy.The acting is pretty good and the main girl is nice to look at but I cant believe she would be with her boyfriend as he is a bit quiet and weird and she seems pretty out going.Hated the sports jock more than most characters your supposed to hate in movies but 1 thing just went to far as everyone over the age of 10 learns to not do these things.The direction/cinematography is OK as shooting an entire movie inside the cabin of a small twin engined prop plane obviously isn't the easiest way to make a movie.
At this point you seriously should want to punch the writers.After a boring first twenty minutes or so, the movie turns into a small disaster story, about a malfunctioning plane.
There is an irritating trend at the moment, away from the traditional "stupid teens being picked off by a monster/lone psycho" type of horror movies, to put hot young actors acting out their teen angst's into new situations just because they look good on screen.
So you're facing likely death in a terrible storm, your aircraft is climbing way beyond it's service ceiling seemingly out of control, there may be a supernatural monster trying to eat your plane and...I know, let's have a huge fight over a comic book and the blond girl.
Tension rises along with the plane as the young people yell at each other a lot until a Twilight Zone/Creepshow twist is pulled out of Amelia Earhart's ass.I know that doesn't sound like an "okay" film, but the story is the absolute worst part of this entire production.
I've read some rather devastating reviews on the movie and I've watched the trailer, which seemed interesting enough to make me want to find out for myself, how good or bad "Altitude" is.
Good, entertaining movie most of the time, but with a disappointing end..
I liked a lot the way it started as an "I survived" movie that slowly enters into a twilight zone/Stephen King realm.Are the characters annoying?