Airline Disaster

Plot synopsis:
On a maiden flight with Coastal Airlines, the Starquest airliner program introduces the most sophisticated and enjoyable flying experience to date, with pilot Joseph Franklin (Scott Valentine) in charge. Special Agent Gina Vitale (Lindsey McKeon) is on the flight to protect Franklin, who is also the President's brother. At Franklin's house, two thugs break in, kill the housekeeper and abduct his wife and children. A group of 10 neo-Nazis, who have sneaked guns onto the flight, force their way into the cockpit, killing the navigator. Agent Vitale makes it into the cargo hold and is able to contact her home base. Robert Stevens (Geoff Meed), the leader of the assault, forces the pilot to contact his sister, President Harriet Franklin (Meredith Baxter) and demands that 10 of his Argus Aryan Brotherhood be released.
A group of Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor fighters tail the hijacked airliner, but one of them is destroyed in a fuel dump. When the autopilot malfunctions, the airliner plunges to the earth before pulling out of the dive just above a city. Willie (Amir Wilker) brings a flight attendant to the cargo hold, but encounters Vitale, who kills him. Other terrorists shoot a flight attendant, thinking she is the sky marshal. When the President does not release the "brothers", Robert shoots another flight attendant.
With a FBI SWAT team at the isolated cabin where Joe Franklin's family is held, in the White House, President Franklin gives the command to initiate "Kittyhawk", a secret system that can remotely control aircraft from a satellite. Just when the airliner goes out of control, the President realizes she must make a momentous decision, choosing between her family and the safety of the people in the cities below.
In the cargo hold, when Robert reveals that the skyjacking is a ruse for a bank heist, he is confronted by Vitale and chooses to trigger an explosion that not only kills him but results in the cargo door slicing off a jet engine. With the Starquest plummeting out of control and heading for Washington, the order to shoot it down results in the pursuing jet fighters being ineffective when the airliner's automated defense systems are triggered.
Finally acting to protect the passengers, the Sky Marshal (Peter Smith) is killed, but Vitale shoots the terrorists and takes back control of the Starquest. With the Franklin family rescued, the President resorts to a last-ditch attempt to down the aircraft. Using a new and unpredictable satellite-based laser results in taking out one of the trailing F-22 Raptors. She tells her brother to do the only thing left, pilot the Starquest to a water landing on the Potomac River, at Chesapeake Bay.

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Review:
Awful, just so utterly awful, you'd think the film-makers were about to throw couple of thousand dollars on a fire, and then thought to make this instead.
I just can't believe that the actors could keep a straight face throughout all of this.The only thing I learnt from this movie is that all satellites make bleepy noises in orbit when they're being accessed.The rogue mega-laser tearing up a street and a couple of buses was pretty funny, but the best humour comes when the plane is coming almost at street level over the city, people are running terrified, and a young woman stops to look over her shoulder.
A few movies are so bad they're good.
The TSA must have been awful to let the bad guys on the plane with so many guns.
Holding phony airplane steering wheels, shaking them around while pretending to control the plane and clipping the tops of buildings and radio towers while flying at 27,000 feet is awful.
The special FBI agent runs around with her gun and when she does some swift kicks supposed to be looking like some martial arts, they blurred the movie so you can not see any moves.
The sky martial, an old retired man in the back corner looks like any old gentleman but totally scared and pulls out a cell phone and texts "I love you" - stands up and pulls out his gun also and one of the hijackers pops him.
It was so lame.One third through the movie I wanted to turn it off, but I left it running while doing other things at the same time, just throwing an eye at it now and then.It was B-acting, lame stunts, the air craft take offs are animations and so obviously studio done.Do not waste your time on this.
I just cannot believe how such 'bad' movie can actually be made these days.
I quite enjoy watching really bad B movies.
Some are very good in a very bad way but most of all they are very funny because they are not intended to be.If you consider Ed Woods B movies from the 50's which were truly awful but today are kind of classic for their awfulness they really are in a different league of B movie to this.
Ed Wood was a little bit nutty and totally believed in what he was doing, that's what made his movies great.
If the plane had crashed and everyone died within the first five minutes of the film and then it just went on to show pictures of fake log fire for the next hour and a half I would have been satisfied.
At least then there would have been a point, insulting, but a point never the less.Please, if your going to make a B movie make it truly awful.
The special effects in this film were so cheap, and the action scenes,one agent disarms all the highjackers,I think their were 10 of them,and all of them got through the security points with their guns.
The photography was bad,to be truthful,their is nothing I can say good about this film.
This film has the Worst CGI I have ever seen, not to mention the worst acting, and worst continuity.
I think this was supposed to be a drama.The actual story line could have made for an interesting thriller movie, but the producer of this film missed everything that could have been missed on every count and ended up with an embarrassing entry on his resume.I cannot believe they spent money and came up with this crap.
Meredith Baxter must have been in desperate need for money to star in this example of a airplane disaster type of film.
Most from my age would probably remember them playing together in the "Family Ties" TV show.Well, this movie was bearable to watch, but definitely not one that you would want to return to again later for a second viewing.
There are far worse disaster movies out there than this one, though.
Sure, even as I watched this film I was aware that some of its details of how an airliner operates were unlikely, that if a satellite armed with a laser could accomplish what this movie's did there would have been no need to send Seals after Mr. Bin Laden, that when airliners chop off the summits of tall buildings and monuments with their wings those wings are unlikely to survive, that the attractive Secret Service brunette could have used her handgun much, much earlier than she did  but I also agree with Big Bwana's review.
Defects and all, this is an exciting movie, sufficiently well-acted, and with special effects that worked well enough on my laptop's screen.
The poor plot, acting and everything else have already been touched on, but I was very amused at the Secret Service woman who just sat by and let people get shot and a hand cut off when shes sat there holding a gun and apparently the bad guys will always freeze when she aims at them..
Either that went completely unnoticed by the film makers and the 'actress' who said it, or they are quietly trying to imply that the female President is gay.
Can't say I've ever seen a film before where they've suggested that, so I like it just for having some balls!.
Nope...Ooops...well i guess I was wrong, because it wasn't a comedy and it wasn't action and it wasn't drama or suspense either.It was a mix of almost everything wrong that could have had another two rewrites and made into a really cool movie - but lack of judgment proved once again that stupid people in spots of power still have control over our world, what we watch, what is built and the decisions they make with the money that is in their hands.What I did like - was that the landmarks were destroyed, people died on the ground and that staff from the government organizations get fired - but it still needed work.With a little bit of effort and some more money, a well known cast and a little more action and login and this could have been a blockbuster..
I feel that this movie wasn't nearly as good as it could have been, poor acting was the main reason for this.
the actors just never looked like professionals and for that reason I never believed that they were in a real situation.
its a watch-able film at best.
I like airline movies but this takes the biscuit.
Alongside their oddly popular movies about giant monsters battling it out, The Asylum also like to make low rent disaster movies typically involving CGI planes.
AIRLINE DISASTER is such a movie but it turns out to be a copy of the likes of AIR FORCE ONE (itself a copy of DIE HARD) rather than genuine disaster movie like AIRPLANE VS VOLCANO, so that title is a bit of a misnomer.It's still terrible, however, with poor production values throughout and a script which goes nowhere.
The storyline involves a gang of terrorists who hijack a passenger plane; the authorities want to bring the flight down, but a special agent hiding in the cargo hold decides to take matters into her own hands by tackling the terrorists single-handedly.AIRLINE DISASTER tries to be an adult-themed movie with a hard edge but the added-in violence and swearing just feels silly.
The acting is poor across the board, and for a supposed action film this has generally bad choreography which saps enjoyment from the admittedly suspenseful scenario.
It's the repetitive inserts of awful-looking CGI planes which really sink this film, though..
Ultimately, I'd say I paid $2.99 more than I later wished.Along the way of this script, which like many politicians, was Fact-Free, I kept wondering if the director and cast actually meant to produce such a discordant mess.
And speaking of FBI, how in the world did a nearly-hijacked plane come to the President's attention so quickly?
The previous reviews indicated how awful the actors on both the good and evil side.
Possibly the worst movie I've ever attempted to watch.
If you don't have to pay for this movie, and you've got nothing else to do to pass a rainy day, give it a try and let me know how it ends...
This has got to be absolutely the worst movie I've ever seen.
The only good thing about this movie was that it ended, finally.
Did I say this movie was the worst thing I've ever seen?
The folks who produced/directed/starred in Airport, Airport 75, Airport 77, Airport 79-the Concorde, and some of the airplane disaster movies from the 50's should be suitably horrified.
I have to give it 1 and I feel bad about giving it that much.Others have already mentioned the fact that the effects and the acting are very poor indeed.
This is his first attempt at directing.A note to the producers (who probably take a large salary out of the production budget and so don't care what rubbish they churn out).If you want someone to direct a film for you ...
One of the worst movies I've ever watched in my life :(.
I've watched many low budget films in my life, and according to my experience, an action movie without proper sources never makes it.
But for all movie enthusiasts, especially for all special effect fans, I advise to watch it carefully.
When the airplane is met with turbulence, the plane of course rocks - we've seen this in many films.
Meredith Baxter is conspicuous as the only competent actor in the film.
This is a complete disaster of a movie.
I don't understand how the American film board even approved this movie to be released.
Best part of the movie is they will fly rite over the white house and land in a river and guess what the plane is total water proof even after losing engine and what not.
- This director should be Shot like the tacky film.
Blockbuster should have had the sense not to rent it.I don't understand in this day and age how a film like this can be even made.
$150 dollars may have been a little generous i know!!.I will certainly be looking out for other movies and I will certainly avoiding them at all costs!!!
Probably the worst produced movie in this century!!
While there is no gratuitous killing or blood, be warned this is not for children.Baxter and the Secret Service agent (McKeon) stand out as actors, not Oscar material, yet, believable and never out of character or cheesy.
I know someone will argue that with me, but, I rate B movies with other B movies, not against A movies.Worth the rental for a good B action film night, or buy for $4.99 and take to Thanksgiving weekend..
A real disaster of a movie.
Perhaps not the worst movie I've seen, but Airplane Disaster is a real disaster of a movie.
Well what could you expect of a movie that has a title like that?
So if you are going in with hopes to watch another Armageddon or even Passenger 57 (a rather good movie, especially compared to this one), than don't even rent/watch it.
Before I watch this crap, I knew it's a low budget "movie".
I watched it anyway, because I am that kind of guys who totally OK with low budget movies.But this one, IS A CRAP!!!
AND let the bad guy blow up the airplane's door????
CGI would have been a hit in some 80's B-movies, "acting" is just beyond any comparison to real actors, writers of this "movie" probably read comics for living and as a "cherry on top" is the fact, that no aeronautics or even elementary avionics consults were obviously way too expensive to hire.
All in all- looks like someone was given 10.000$ and told to make a movie at gunpoint...By all means - Do Not be as stupid as I was...
I've just wasted 90 minutes of my life sitting through this unoriginal film about domestic terrorists skyjacking a passenger jet airline.
I would love to know what these filmmakers are doing next, so I can avoid it.Any good thing to write about about this film?
Straight to DVD then to the Bargain Bucket is where this film will end up, A Complete Disaster!.
The acting is atrocious and I knew the film was in trouble when I saw the name Meredith Baxter.
Truly a good "bad" movie,.
I love really bad movies that try to be serious, and this is one.
I mean airplane) I especially enjoyed watching the Secret service woman hiding in the cargo for what seemed like an eternity!
Oh, and Meredith Baxter, the way she asked questions and sounded like a grandmother was great.
I especially liked the computer lab they had, it looked very underfunded, spot on!Visuals of the plane were arguably good, and the jets were righteous.
I'll email the script for "Ghost Planes" to the Asylum right away.Overall, this movie had me laughing fairly hard.
Some people like awful films and find them amusing, if you have this proclivity then please read on.
Maybe they sold it on the use of CGI special effects at knock down prices?The plot lets down the pedestrian acting and Londale Theus, who plays FBI Agent Melville is so strenuously seriously serious as to be comical.Believe me, I am not spoiling anything by mentioning that solutions and the technology suggested to the President and their implementation is simply cheap scifi and poorly done at that.So, if your into a bad film then this is the one and a good laugh can be had as you pick it apart minute by minute.
Did they forget to employ someone for continuity :) Definitely the worst film I've seen in a long time but it did make me laugh..
i watched this movie the other day and found it really good for a low budget asylum movie.
it's basically about a brand new aircraft on it's maiden flight which gets hijacked and the president has to choose between family on the plane (her brother is the captain of the plane) and the lives of all on the ground, as a sort of insurance policy the hijackers on the plane also have contacts on the ground who kidnap the captains family and you know what the story will be here, if anything goes wrong on the plane they will kill his family.i must say that I'm a massive fan of air plane films and have seen some bad ones in my time but this one is certainly one of the better ones i have seen so i was confused when i saw that this film had such negative reviews, i guess everyone has their own tastes in movies but i loved this film.
i like the futuristic and bright coloured design of the star quest plane, even though it's obviously cgi shots of the plane, if you ignore the cgi effects you can really enjoy this movie, the actors are good i have nothing bad to say about any of the actors.my only criticism about this film is certain errors throughout the film that are noticeable to anyone watching here is the ones that bother me.
3) the last little niggle i have with this film is in the ending sequence just before the captain is reunited with his wife and kids, there is a helicopter towards the rear of the plane which descends slowly then all of a sudden it just stops and hovers doing absolutely nothing and the only movement is some slight movements in the tail rotor thats all(total cgi error lol).I have to say though that the above mentioned are just slight niggles i have with this film but it wasn't enough to ruin my enjoyment of the film, my overall opinion of this movie is great and i give it 8/10..
If this is a mockery of Airline Disaster movies, you nailed it !!!.
I could name a thousand but let me stop here.Im fully convinced that this was actually a mockery to airline disaster movies.
Lindsey McKeon was pretty good (and very, very hot by the way) and the bad guys were menacing, especially Geoff Meed.
I thought she did a great job playing the president and was a lot of fun to watch.
Why doesn't the secret service lady do anything other than listen to the bad guys do their thing in the cargo area?
Let me start at the outset - I like bad movies.
Even the Steven Seagal one's.I rarely write a movie review, but this film couldn't go without comment.
I have watched many films in my life.
This is quite simply the worst movie I have EVER seen.Many people have commented already on some of the obvious howlers.
Unfortunately most of them do not survive at the end of the movie.Put it simply all the rest is bad.
Way cool :) I love cheesy movies, so I was hoping to get a few laughs from this one and I wasn't disappointed.
If you love bad movies and liked this one, you MUST see "Air Collision." It makes this movie look like an Oscar winner and they both have similar plots.Possible spoilers?
(As if anything could spoil this movie more) ***Some of my favorite parts have already been mentioned : The pilot calling his plane "a big beautiful whale," the air marshal who can't shoot straight, the undamaged Washington monument etc., but I have a few gems to add to the list.Near the end of the movie the guy with the spiked hair can't help smiling/laughing at the end of one scene.
Watch for it in the background.The head FBI agent looks like he is on speed or something with those big wide eyes.The same shot of the passengers is used about five times during one section of the movie.