Fear of Flying (1999)

Director:

David Mackay

Writers:

Rob Kerchner (story)
Rob Kerchner (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

27 December 1999 (South Korea)

Genre:

Action | Thriller

Tagline:

They took the wrong flight to cure their fear.

Plot:

A passenger of a hijacked airliner who happens to be an airplane engineer works to deactivate a chemical weapons bomb after the hijackers kill the pilot and threaten to kill all the passengers on the plane.

Plot Keywords:

Pilot | Fear Of Flying | Hijack | Airplane | Airport

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Craig Sheffer	...	Martin
Jennifer Beals	...	Jessica
Tom Berenger	...	Sikes
Jeffrey Nordling	...	Elliot
Jay Brazeau	...	Harold
Daryl Shuttleworth	...	Captain
Paul Jarrett	...	Vaclav
Andrew Kavadas	...	Bell
Chilton Crane	...	Hazel
Peter Kelamis	...	Mazzo
Tim Henry	...	Dickson
Hiro Kanagawa	...	Controller
Jill Teed	...	Kit
Tamara Phillips	...	Hobbs
Jody Thompson	...	Stacey

Also Known As:

Turbulence II: Fear of Flying (UK) (USA) (closing credits title)
Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying (UK) (cable TV title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and brief strong language.

Runtime:

101 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Netherlands:12 (TV rating) | Netherlands:16 (original rating) | South Korea:12 | Australia:MA | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Portugal:M/12 (video premiere) | USA:R | Singapore:PG | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Trimark Pictures

Goofs:

Factual errors: During the walkaround, Martin states that the plane is powered by Trent 700 engines. The plane is a Boeing 747-200 while Trent 700 engines have only been introduced specifically for the Airbus A330.

Movie Connections:

Follows Turbulence (1997)

Better than the first one.

The first Turbulence movie really reeked (ie. it stunk out the whole cabin), mostly because there were large portions of the movie where nothing much exciting happened. They fixed this problem for Turbulence 2 with wall-to-wall non-stop heart-pounding action. OK, the action isn't heart-pounding but it's certainly wall-to-wall. There's always somebody fighting, running away, chasing, blowing something up, shooting, dying, trying to escape or, of course, flying the plane in turbulent conditions. Oh yeah, and falling...

The wall-to-wall action is flanked closely on both sides with wall-to-wall stupidity, but to its credit the movie does not take itself too seriously. How could it? A fear of flying group takes a ride in a plane with a bunch of terrorists with a bomb on board which then heads towards a storm. Ha ha, yeah right. Now, it's up to the fear of flying passengers & crew to save the day which they do with varying degrees of success. When ANOTHER crew member gets shot attempting to overthrow the bad guy the bad guy says something along the lines of "Aargh! what's wrong with you people?". It's delivered beautifully.

Actually, the acting in general is really very, err, well capable. I was going to say good, but in the context of this movie it wouldn't quite fit. I'm only giving this movie 4/10, but it's a fun 4/10. Chill that beer, microwave that popcorn, hand over your $2 to the video shop, switch off brain, press play, enjoy.