Mach 2

Plot synopsis:
U.S. Senator Stuart Davis (David Hedison), running against the Vice-President, plans a trip to the Balkans to negotiate the release of American servicemen being held hostage by terrorists. Before he leaves, he receives a disk documenting evidence that the Vice-President has been trying to revive the American economy by causing a war in the Balkans. He announces his plans at Washington Dulles International Airport to show it to both sides in the hopes of ending the situation. He boards Concorde flight 209 to Paris along with some Air Force Officers and news employees. Unexpected Secret Service agents turn up and board the Concorde. After takeoff, the secret service agents led by Barry Rogers (Michael Dorn) shoot an Air Force officer and his men hijack the Concorde in mid-flight. Rogers takes Stuart Davis and the others hostage and forces him to hand over the disk in order to prevent the war being averted. In the cockpit, Rogers announces to the Dulles International Airport air traffic controller that the agents are armed with a nuclear device and threaten to crash the Concorde into Paris.
Air Force Officer Jack Tyree (Brian Bosworth) arrives at the cockpit (where Davis is held hostage) and overpowers one of Rogers' men, accidentally shooting the co-pilot in the process. He then helps fly the Concorde and later frees Davis. Later, another agent arrives and shoots Captain Roman and takes Tyree hostage. Having brought with them two pairs of parachutes, the men jump off the plane, after revealing that there was no nuclear device aboard the aircraft. The two men land and steal a car and escape along some cliffs. On the other hand, two French Secret Service Agents that have apparently overheard the hijacking, chase Rogers and his men down the road towards a pre-prepared road block. Rogers sets an electromagnetic pulse bomb to destroy the French car, until the officer at the roadblock fires a shell at the agents, causing them to skid off the road, violently roll down the cliffs and break up, killing Rogers and his men instantly.
On the Concorde, Jack Tyree and news employee Shannon Carpenter (Shannon Whirry) attempt to fly the Concorde but Jack can't fly an aircraft and is nicknamed "washout". The aircraft's radio is damaged due to the previous fight with one of Rogers' men. Since Shannon is a former mechanic, she repairs the radio and restores contact with Paris Air Traffic control. Meanwhile, with it having been rumoured that the agents planted a nuclear device on the Concorde, Dulles air traffic control orders a nearby aircraft carrier to launch a fighter aircraft to intercept the Concorde before it reaches Paris. On the aircraft, Shannon announces to Dulles and Paris Orly airport that there is no device on the aircraft and barely manages to order the fighter to abort, after two near misses from its missiles. Because of the explosion of a nearby missile fired from the fighter, the Concorde's fuel line is torn and is leaking fuel, compromising the arrival at Paris.
With the plane low on fuel, Jack Tyree is instructed via radio to land the Concorde at the airport. The landing is successful and the passengers depart safely. Shannon, having hidden the actual disk in the trash, hands over the disk containing confidential files to Stuart Davis, making it possible for the war to be averted. Jack and Shannon finally engage in a passionate kiss and the film ends, displaying the Concorde.

Tags: violence

Review:
I still am mad at myself as to why did i chose to rent this movie in the first place.
Pathetic is written all over the movie and i still failed to see it......hope time will heal my wounds!
If you are planning to watch this one i would suggest there are other better movies out there..
Something to avoid.
Very brief summary of what I thought about the movie: weak acting, very overused storyline full of things that make little sense, no research at all about airplanes and military procedures.
If you have the guts to watch the movie, pay attention in some things like: there are no weapons in the F14s!
Where do they get these missiles from?
Why do the missiles explode in mid-air without hitting anything?
How does the guy explode the car that was following him?
How come the American fighters enter French airspace and the only people that see that were the people in the air control?
France doesn't have any military force?.
decent acting is all that carried this movie.
The acting by Brian Bosworth, Shannon Whirry, Ciff Robertson and Michael Dorn was pretty solid despite the script they had to work with.Steve Latshaw wrote a very pedestrian script filled with weak clichés and one liners.
The dialogue is only part of what brought this film down.The direction was horrid.
Fred Olen Ray, who had directed such classics as Vampire Vixens from Venus and Bikini Drive In, does a horrid job directing this movie.
The cuts, the angles, the closeups - everything he did was pedestrian.
The music, the sound editing, everything was bad.If it wasn't for some solid acting from a few select cast members this wouldn't be worth the time.
As is, it is a fair little action flick.
Just don't expect much.
sexy,dumb,sad,and stupid..
i bought this movie thinking that the movie was going to be better than great but i was proven really wrong!
first this movies is fake above all secondly it copies Airport 79, the Concorde far much better this piece of crap, and even actually it takes scenes from airport 79  and put it into the movie this people are so cheapo that they can't afford a piece of set for a day!
worst movie ever!
plus supposibly they took off from washington dc and it showed palm trees!
well they filmed it in pacoima or burbank or something and they had porn star as the air traffic controller that i know because of the funny film commentary the only good thing about this movie.
so please don't watch i only watch this movie with the movie commentary..
Horrible.
This was one of the worst movies I have ever seen.The acting,the effects,the plot basically all of the movie was horrible.The F-14 who can't take down a simple Concorde,the stupid lines,the fact that fuel is leaking from the end of the plain where the baggage compartment is and so on,an so on.There was the sexy role of Shannon Whirry which brightens up the movie a little bid.There is also Brian Bosworth who is playing a Michael Dudikoff type of hero who is going to save everybody and he sucked as the hole movie if you ask me.But hey if there are movies like that young actors can find work.And it was a super commercial for the Concorde too..
So bad it is almost brilliant?
No. Just bad..
With a stream of famous names and faces one would think that this would be a great film.
Having watched this garbage I have come to the conclusion that none of the actors actually read the script before shooting began.
Cliché after cliché after cliché.
This produces wooden performances from some names that should know better.I am sure their accountants were happy when they paid their cheques into the bank, but anyone who bought/rented this on DVD will feel that their money could have been better spent on a tin of paint.
They could have occupied themselves watching the paint dry and would have felt more fulfilled.DVD and obscure cable/satellite channels will use this trash to fill out their schedules.My advice ...
buy the paint.
At least you get a choice of colour..
Worst film ever made?.
Just awful, awful, awful.
Quite frankly the worst film I've ever seen and I don't even want to waste my time on explaining why.
It's almost worth watching just to allow yourself to vent some anger as you shout at the screen at how pathetic and unbelievable this film is.If you are foolish enough to watch then prepare to spend a lot of time sighing and cringing.
There is artistic licence and then there is just plain stupid and unbelievable.
The amount of artistic licence is quite frankly insulting to the viewer.Then I suppose I should come on to the acting.
Well again, to call it acting is an insult to the professionals out there..
ok movie, with ok acting, and ok action, and ok story....
1st watched 4/4/2001 - 4 out of 10(Dir-Fred Olen Ray): ok movie, with ok acting, and ok action, and ok story.
This type of movie has been done before with much more intensity with some of the same things done that are supposed to bring up the tension(Aka. Person flying the plane at the climatic end of movie has never flown before), corrupt politicians at the top (Aka. President Cliff Richardson) with gung-ho save-all action hero(Aka. Brian Bosworth), and weak love interest(Aka. Sharron Whirry).
Lame attempt to recycle..
Did I watch this one before ?.
After watching this movie last night on tv.
I asked myself if I haven't seen Mach 2 before.
The fact is it was on the tv for the first time.If you are one action movie fan like me you have seen tons of stories like this.
Neve Campbell look-a-like female is exciting but that's about it..
Worth Watching.
An unexpectedly good movie that could have benefited a lot from a larger budget.
Miniatures are used in the shots of the Concorde, and it shows.
It was rated R for violence, though it had less violence than most TV shows.
Profanity throughout was unnecessary and could have been edited out.
Brian Bosworth does an adequate job as the Air Force officer who gets called on when anything goes wrong.
Michael Dorn shines in a non-Worf role that shows he can play someone else other than a Trek character.
David Hedison is great as the U.S. Senator and is the only actor to look like he was actually walking on a a real plane.
Shannon Whirry, who plays his political assistant, shows that she can handle an action role.
Best of all are the scenes with the NSA agents..
Rent It!.
Rent It!.
Well, I watched this film hoping for some great Boz action, but only a little showed up.
But, with Boz, Shannon, and Worf in it who could lose!
Boz does a fine job for what he's given and looks more comfortable acting, Shannon melts your bones just looking at her, and Worf (Dorn)is one big dude.
Problem with this flick is the music score and the general flow of the picture.
But being a Boz fan, it's worth seeing.
Some good flight scenes.Boy, Boz's scar sure looked like Stone Cold's didn't it??
Flamio.
The Boz is back once again and better than ever!.
Overall a pretty good movie with surprisingly a lot of stars.
The Boz gives a pretty good performance in this action movie.
Some corny lines here and there, but written pretty well.
There were even scenes taken from Concorde 77, the one with George Kennedy!
I am not kidding!
There are some great fight scenes and The Boz kicks some butt.
If you are a Boz fan or action movie fan, you should like it.
No Oscars are going to be won here, but the Boz lives on!.
A fair film!.
Mach 2 is a good film that has a good cast which includes Brian Bosworth, Shannon Whirry, Bruce Weitz, Cliff Robertson, Michael Dorn, Lance Guest, David Hedison, Andrew Stevens, Robert Pine, Ai Wan, Clark Reiner, Jennifer Hammon, Amir Aboulela, Ron Chaney, Grant Cramer, Sondra Currie, Ron Chaney, Grant Cramer, Sondra Currie, Charles Cyphers, and Nikki Fritz.
The acting by all of these actors is very good.
Bosworth and Robertson are really excellent in this film.
I thought that they performed good.
The thrills is really good and some of it is surprising.
The movie is filmed very good.
The music is good.
The film is quite interesting and the movie really keeps you going until the end.
This is a very good and thrilling film.
If you like Brian Bosworth, Shannon Whirry, Bruce Weitz, Cliff Robertson, Michael Dorn, Lance Guest, David Hedison, Andrew Stevens, the rest of the cast in the film, Action, Adventure, Thrillers, Dramas, and interesting films then I strongly recommend you to see this film today!.
Hilarious as most TV productions.
Where am I supposed to start with this movie?
I seriously have no idea.
Okay, so it's a typical US-made TV production and as it appears, all TV directors have made an agreement to produce such nonsense.
Actors with average performance are put into what is supposed to be a Concorde supersonic aircraft and are taken hostage by Secret Service agents on behalf of a president and vice president who is supporting the war in the Balcan to have his economy prosper.
Well, let's have a look at the aircraft.
Okay, it's been a while that I have seen the insides of a Concorde, but what they are showing here has no resemblance whatsoever with the aircraft.
Some scenes with F-14 Tomcats are taken from "Top Gun" and all in all, you can see that the budget ended before they could actually do some action scenes.
Produced in 2001, this movie contains mainly very old scenes in the outdoor shots, so that they also were able to use car chases and a car crash from an old European spy movie.
That one gave me a really good laugh.
Before indulging too much into all the details here, let me just say that I was really surprised to find that at the Paris Airport they were using US-made ambulances.
While that actually is possible, I was even more surprised to find that they also had US number plates on them.Forgive me for being a bit sarcastic, but such movies really spoil the joy of watching TV.
It's not necessarily in the plot or the actors, but it's the details.The plot behind "Mach 2" in principle is good and the different threads could make for three different movies.
A aircraft hijack, a presidential intrigue and an international spy connection.
However, they gallantly left out anything that would have made this movie "intellectually challenging"..
Wow. I enjoyed watching this film as it gave me great pleasure in righteously ripping it to shreds with my fellow viewers.
This movie doesn't need a spoiler alert as it is already spoiled.The plot is simplistic in that a US senator travels to Balkans on a Concorde aeroplane and he possesses a computer disk implicating the vice-president in a plot to expand the war the senator is trying to mediate in so that that the US can sell arms to both side and thus keep the USA economy going.
The bad ole secret service hijack the plane under the pretence of being a Balkan splinter group, steal the disks, kill the crew and radio the authorities it has a nuclear bomb on board then shoot the radio so that when they parachute to safety (But are then suddenly chased and killed by unknown attackers)the US navy without even asking the French send up fighters to try shoot it down over the French Alps.Enter the hero who's name I cannot be bothered to recall.
He and his pretty companions go about trying to get the plane back down, and one pretty thing having been given a radio kit as a present when a teenager promptly repairs the complex communication system on the Concorde with a Swiss army knife.
Then the US navy F-14s take off with empty missile racks, but damage with missiles the Concorde fuel tanks located in its extreme tail.
At this point communications are restored and the F-14 pilot who probably had never even seen a concord cockpit gives the hero a switch by switch briefing on how to control remaining fuel and engines.
All this time the Concorde has been visible on the radar at both Dulles and Le Bourget simultaneously whilst it was mid Atlantic.
The French and American Air Traffic can both seem to talk to the aircraft at the same time.
Enter the stereotype French disheveled Gaulloies smoking ex navy pilot controller who then talks the hero to land, lever by lever, even telling how much flap to lower which is strange as Concorde doesn't use flaps, but the hero manages to lower the wheels and the droop nose unaided on finals but mysteriously raises it before ploughing into the crash barrier.
US registered ambulance then take away the injured whilst several US registered light aircraft sit on the apron, the backdrop view enhanced by the famous snow capped mountains that surround Paris.
There is more.............Watch for WowII!