Turbulence (1997)

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Better Late Then Never

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Turbulence (1997): Dir: Robert Butler / Cast: Lauren Holly, Ray Liotta, Hector Elizondo, Catherine Hicks, Rachel Ticotin: Total waste of film that belongs in a trash bin. Lauren Holly plays the stupidest airline stewardess to ever board a plane. She has just ended a bad relationship and not up for the Christmas cheer. Everything is routine until a couple of criminals decked in shackles are brought aboard. She claims that these guys do not look like criminals. That is how stupid she truly is. What does this moron stewardess view as criminal? Predictable elements follow as one of the criminals is granted use of the washroom leading to a shootout until Holly and one of those so-called innocent criminals are left. Director Robert Butler successfully creates a mess by allowing the action to skew out of control. He previously directed the comedy Up the Creek and this is about as hilarious and that is not a compliment. Holly is at her absolute worst as this airhead stewardess. Ray Liotta does his best as the crazed killer but the role creates nothing new thus leaving him as your standard villain. Hector Elizondo plays the standard cop who tries to talk the plane down and other such crap. Even poor Catherine Hicks gets sucked into this garbage. Pointless garbage with flimsy action scenes that unintentionally play off humour such as the plane flying upside down or its wheels snagging a car. This film should be smashed with a rock. Score: 0 / 10

First: What I hate the most in action and thriller movies are helpless victims, what I want is people die while trying. This movie had evade that thing I hate, so I give this movie a very good verdict.Second: I hate movies with such special effect, that when I watch it, I already knew it is only a special effect. (Like so many movies nowadays) This movie special effect is not perfect, but it gives the "reality" needed (real people tumbling, scattered stuff went flying all over the place, vacuum sucking effect). I literally hold my breath at certain times and jaw-dropping at later times. I also give this movie special effect a very good verdict.Third: Many movies doesn't comply to logic. This movie also doesn't stray away from this situation. But let me give you some hint. Movie-Action-Fun to watch. If you want to find logic, go watch some news, documentaries, or heck, watch Dicovery Channel. This I write for those hatters.Fourth: Humans are not perfect. Those actors and actresses filled each other, where some failed (not horribly though) and some triumphed. It's a movie, for crying out loud!!!Very Good Movie, 2 thumbs up. Enough Said!

This sucker was just on HBO (4am) and I read these just before watching it, which made me wanna watch it even more. Nuked some popcorn.... 1) As a pilot myself, I can tell ya a REAL aviator doesn't need to sit at the controls to instruct a rookie how to land a plane using a Navcom system. So.... they obviously didn't even take the time to chat with a pilot to begin with, nor get a technical consultant. Then she wanders off with him after, WHY: cause he 'saved' her, has an English accent or just because he's got an umbrella? Little trampy stewardess.2) Do they really hang all kinds of CRAP in an airplane for Xmas? With lights, and roping all lit up, causing a fire hazard? I doubt it, but I've never flown home for a holiday so don't know. That's "hard up" Xmas marketing if I've ever seen it.3) If you intend to die and take a tight arsed/perky breasted little "it's flight attendant" blond airhead with you... wouldn't you just PLOW her chops off rather than asking all kinds of dumb Q's? The whole conversation about whether she likes sex or not is senseless: He kills a bunch of people and wants to DIE, but asks her if she LIKES SEX instead of just raping her? Ray has no credibility with me for even accepting the part.4) On the lighter side, I did get a kick outta the killing of an "I think it's a Ford" Explorer. 5) The confused Asians in the karaoke bar: funny! They've destroyed our economy, F them! 6) Obviously, some racist broads were involved in the screen writing here: "Stewardess" is politically incorrect, but the jab at Asian Karaoke singers isn't? Buncha hypocrites! 7) The inverted flight was amusing. But... no way in HELL a plane would either get into that orientation OR right itself out of it! Well, if you can catch it on HBO or D/L it: It's a funny POS! Just as goofy as Snakes on a Plane, which actually was pretty funny!

Sure, it's not the best movie in the world, but for action, suspense and a Lauren Holly/Ray Liotta combo, it's pretty darned good. I watched this on a lazy Saturday morning and ended up nearly hyperventilating by the time it was over, not to mention having enough excess adrenalin to turn the lazy morning into a more productive one. One viewer commented that this was the best worse movie they'd seen. I wouldn't go so far as saying it is in the 'worse' category, because it had a lot of good qualities. There was a long list of favorite character actors, enough suspense to keep you interested, great performances by Holly and Liotta (two of my favorite Soap turned Hollywood actors), one of everyone's 'worst nightmares come true', and...none of it was spoiled by a romantic element often inserted in a good heart stopper action movie.Kudos to Ms. Holly on her performance during the last fight scene. By this point, I was having to remember this was a movie, not live action. I was asking myself what I would do and how I would be feeling in a similar situation. That was the time when I realized I was hyperventilating and had to make myself take a breath. This is definitely a movie that I am glad I didn't watch just before bedtime. I would have not slept from the charge this movie gave the nervous system.