Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001)

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Nice effects though.

Good concept, poorly executed.

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I should probably stop choosing movies to watch based on the criteria of Rutger Hauer being in them. As cool as the dude is he has been in little but straight to video turds for the last decade or so. Case in point Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal. Not a movie I'd choose to watch normally being a straight to video sequel to two movies I have not seen and have no interest in seeing but Rutger is in and I seemed to recall seeing a trailer for it that made it at least look amusingly cheesy. The movie is actually rather tame and befuddling illogical and to make matters worse there is very little Rutger (Actually in one sense there is rather a lot of Rutger but I think he's cool enough to not deserve too many cheap shots about his weight).The 'plot' revolves around a hijacking of plane that is being used as the venue of a farewell concert for Goth rocker Slade Craven which is being broadcast live across the net. Examined in any more detail than that the plot starts to unravel. The movie makes so little sense in such a way as to suggest that the finished product was made from an unfinished draft of the script or more likely that they changed scripts halfway through and didn't do any refilming. Most notably nonsensical is the sudden inexplicable explosion of the air traffic control tower and revelation that the Craven who is seen hijacking the plane is an imposter, replaced half way through the concert, when Craven was shown smuggling the guns onboard earlier in the movie (In a way which requires incredible slackness on the part of airline security). That's not mention the out of the blue sex scene lead in at the end of the movie, the awful music video, the contrived hacker subplot and the seriously wacky aim of the satanic terrorists to crash the plane into a church in the middle of nowhere because of its mystical significance.Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal is a low budget production and it shows. There are only a few locations- a couple on the plane, Watt's apartment, the studio and a couple of others which are all rather sparse looking. None the action in the movie is very elaborate. The big explosion looks fake and the camera shaking when the plane experiences turbulence is as sophisticated as the camera-work gets. I have a feeling this was just some generic hijack script that they shoved the Turbulence moniker on to get what little name recognition they could as is often the case with these lame straight to video sequels. The characters are all bland or cliché such as the narcissistic entertainment report. Nobody in the production really puts in much effort, even seasoned pros like Rutger and Mategna are kind of dull here, given the boring material they have work with. Anwar and Shaffer give one note 'don't want to be here' performances. Anwar in particular seems like she was on Prozac. Sadly Rutger is hardly in the movie, his being a supporting role, but given the movie that may be a mercy. There was also a lot really bad dialogue a lot of which made no sense and supported my mangled script theory with characters some times seemingly referring to things which we hadn't seen or more often dialogue exchanges that just didn't add up. For example one of the metal fans on the plane gives a "You!" type reaction when the faux-Craven is revealed but we have no idea where he meant to have recognised him from. A "Not you!" reaction would seem more appropriate in the situation. I kind of wish I could actually remember some more of them but I can't be bothered rewatching the bloody thing again. Although, Slade Craven's repeated catch-phrase of "Let's do the hustle" really seems inappropriate for a badboy Marilyn Manson type.Ultimately, despite the presence of Rutger, I can't truly recommend Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal even for the WTF? factor.

I liked the movie personally, but what i really wanna know is who sang the songs for the movie? I loved the song "just shoot me baby!" and I've been trying to find the artist. I searched on LimeWire, and I looked at John Mann....and I got nothing. If anyone can let me know who sings the song so i can find it, please notify my a.s.a.p. thank you very much. I mean I know the songs sounds like Marilyn Manson, mixed with orgy and Korn. The song that was in the movie was so cool. I was so determined to have a copy that I ended up taking a microphone and my boom box, placing it to the speaker of the TV and recording it. I just cant believe that i can't find the artists on here.

May contain spoilers.You have to wonder how movies like this are made. I have yet to see the first two movies, I first heard of #3, watched it and now assume there are two previous movies. I haven't heard of the Turbulence series before this one came along, but I can't imagine the first two made much money at all.The hero, Slade Craven is little more than a Marilyn Manson wannabe with one big difference. Slade Craven lacks musical talent, William Hung is more talented than this loser. Plus he says "Let's do the hussle" more than anyone should in their entire life time. If he said "Let's go out there and win one for the Gipper", I'd have more respect for him. Heck they could have cut it down to "Let's do it" and he'd seem more Satanic or whatever.The secondary hero is a I337 h4x0r. Who wears sunglasses indoors, a stupid head rag and dresses like he's stuck in the mid-80's. Yeah, an obvious non-hacker type. If they wanted a real hacker, they would have gotten the guy who was Newman on Seinfeld and would have shown up while he was stuffing his face with Nachos while watching a Dr. Who marathon. He teams up with some girl who's a h4x0r with the government, all though they never quite get what part of the government she works for. She's the stuck up girl with no emotion at all and would look hot if she let down her hair and lost the glasses.So anyway Slade decides to have a concert on an airplane. It will be broadcast on the net so that the other 27 fans of his can watch it too. Just so happens that the hacker girl shows up to arrest hacker guy just as the concert starts to go all wrong. Satanic terrorist (Osama is a pansy compared to these guys) hijack the plane in order to crash it after getting 15 million internet viewers in to a Church in Kansas in order to release Satan. Slade is put away for a while and comes back later in the movie when we find out that Slade ain't behind the whole hijack thing. Eventually Slade and the hacker guy hook up on the phone and the hacker talks him through some rough situations.However, the movie goes way over the top of acceptable cheese level when it comes time to land the plane and the hacker uses Microsoft Flight Simulator to help Slade to land the plane. Yeah, ya know that after hours of playing that game as a teenager, I don't feel fully flight certified yet. I get the feeling the writer stole that bit from MST3K: The Movie. If you've read this far, I'm sure you know how the movie ends. With cheese and over acting all around.Good job Canada, yet another example in why you shouldn't make movies. However, feel good that this movie is better than 2 Fast, 2 Furious and Dinocroc, but not by much.

I saw this gem of a movie on cinemax, or hbo, one of those cable companies. And I have to say, my perception on movies in general was changed....THIS IS THE WORST MOVIE EVER....I was over my friends house, and we played the trailers. We couldn't stop laughing. This is on the ranks with those cable movies like "The Mangler 2" or "Storm Watch/Code Hunter" Turbulence 2 was bad enough with the cheesy synthesizer music. Now you throw in a couple hundred goth people, a crew of satanic idiots, and a hermaphrodite "singer prodigy", oh yeah, and a "leet haxor" and a disgruntled fbi agent. And you get a whole lot of crap. Or Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal. If your looking for a good laugh when your staying over a friends house, or are looking for some fire wood to burn and keep warm, I would say check out this movie. Otherwise, steer clear of it.