Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001 Video) User Reviews

Dumb, but if you accept it for what it is- a paycheck job for a bunch of actors-you may like it

[dbborroughs · 5/10 · 20 January 2008]

A dumb direct to video movie about a shock rock concert on a plane taken over by satanists who want to bring about the end of the world and open the gate to hell.

Its really a good film thats completely mindless, but a lot of fun. Hey the actors, Joe Mantegna, Rutger Hauer and others got paid and we get to smile knowingly. I think the key to enjoying the film is just giving yourself over to it and accepting it as the mindless, "I can't believe people are actually dumb enough to make a movie like this" sort of way. It is dumb but if you go with it you may have a good time. To be certain this film probably should not have been released in 2001, but it appearance was purely a coincidence.

a waste of time

[imdb9280 · 3/10 · 24 September 2006]

There is not much reason to point out everything that is bad about this movie. It is not worth too many words.

The plot is too far fetched: a rock singer and his band giving a concert on board of an airplane. The plane is hijacked by a double of the rock singer. The goal of the hijack is to crash the plane on a church to release Satan. Nothing about this story makes sense.

The movie lacks excitement. The photography is uninteresting. None of the actors seems to make anything out of his role. The story starts to be a bore within a few minutes.

To be short: this movie isn't worth a minute of your time.

Now some people think that this movie is brilliant. I have not found anything that could support this point of view. It's one hour and a half of clichés, bad acting, cheap effects, flaws and failure.

Sometimes it's fun to watch a bad movie, not in this case.

No reason to tune in

[Leofwine_draca · 3/10 · 21 August 2019]

TURBULENCE 3 is thankfully the last of the cheesy trilogy, and with a subtitle like HEAVY METAL you know exactly where it's going to go. The whole thing plays out as the least believable thriller ever, with a rock concert on a plane (?!) interrupted by a Satanist extremist (!) bent on hijacking and murder. It's ridiculous stuff for sure, not helped in the slightest by rock-bottom production values and hideous overacting. It's also one of those films tackling the new-fangled Internet phenomenon, one which thinks repetitive scenes of people sitting around on computers is exciting (clue: it isn't). There are a few half-hearted action scenes and Rutger Hauer riffing on his famous BLADE RUNNER speech, but that's no reason to tune in.

Fun movie

[kirneh1 · 19 June 2003]

I have to admit that I only caught the last half of this movie on cable, but I liked what I saw. John Mann is a capable stand-in (at least visually) for the Alice Cooper-wannabe set, plus (with the aid of stand-ins, no doubt) he gets to kick the bejeezus out of his "evil twin" terrorist enemy and save the day. Say what you will about the "evil influence" of rock 'n' roll music-- this time the rock star is a good guy, and John Mann does the role proud.

so bad it's good

[LedBeatle94 · 2/10 · 4 April 2005]

I thought this was hysterical, actually. It's got all the clichés of airplane disaster movies mixed in with a cliché that kind of went down the tubes after the eighties- the 'evil rock & roll guy' cliché. I only saw this on HBO, but if I had a copy, I'd probably serve it up on a movie night alongside "Trick or Treat" and "Black Roses" and "Rock and Roll Nightmare" and "Monster Dog" and "the Dungeonmaster"; it just fills that bill so nicely. I agree with the person on the postboard tho, Slade is no Marilyn Manson. Rather, the way he turns the situation to his own advantage in the end made him pure Rozz Williams to me.Give this turkey a try; altho remember, as we learned from WKRP in Cinncinati, turkeys do NOT fly. :)

Stop the plane, I want to get off.

[Skutter-2 · 2/10 · 2 July 2007]

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.

Actors not acting, script errors and an absent minded director = Turbulence 3

[michael-826 · 1/10 · 13 April 2008]

The people that made this movie must have forgotten what point they were trying to make. We see a FBI agent that starts out arresting a hacker as he is breaking into some sort of video network. The FBI agent played by Gabrielle Anwar who has the looks of Bambi meets secretary from anonymous fashion show (may her acting career rest in peace after this) arrives at the scene completely alone and doesn't report anything to her HQ when she has done the arrest. Oh gee. Thats just how they do in real life?? NOT.

Not much later they cooperate trying to solve an unraveling murder case. Still in the hackers flat and still without informing anyone - until she talks to her superior by accident. And guess what - he has also started working on the same case. What a coincidence! The movie goes on and on with the same completely unbelievable and inconsistent plot. Everything is out of place and phony down to every little detail.

The executive producer should have paid more attention from the very start and terminated the production, since this is one of the movies that should never have been made.

Boring, Confusing and Stupid

[sam_aj_01 · 1/10 · 5 November 2007]

I love watching airplane movies, but this film put me off!

You wouldn't believe it, a rock concert is held on a jumbo-jet!

When Slade Craven, a rock singer holds his fair-well concert on a jumbo jet, live on the internet its not long before FBI agent Kate gets on the task of finding out that Slade Craven is a hijacker, and is planning to crash the plane, without anyone knowning on the plane.

Why would you hold a rock concern on an airplane anyway? Some scenes during the film you can obviously tell that its being filmed in a studio, the plane width is huge, and I'm sure its a danger hazard having everyone jumping around to music while the plane is flying.

Its not worth watching because its plan boring and stupid.

Watch the first and second film, the 3rd is enough.

Have to see it to believe it...

[EuroMaverick · 1/10 · 30 November 2002]

You have to see it to believe it: this movies is definitely one of the worst movies ever made. What are Hauer and Mantegna doing here anyway ?

Not only is this movie full of clichés (pilots are dead - rookie needs to land the plane - again ?!), the acting, sound and camerawork are unbelievable bad, the story sucks (I'm sorry - there is none), the characters are made out of cardboard and act like they had a bad meal, and the plot is full of holes (what's up with the traffic control tower ?).

But... you have to see it to believe it. It is sooo bad it's worth watching and it is even kind of funny (although I don't think it was intended to be). This must have been made by volunteers - I cannot believe somebody paid for this...

Boring...

[RosanaBotafogo · 6/10 · 2 November 2022]

Slade Craven is a rock star who promises his fans a farewell concert the world has never seen: a rock concert inside an airplane in midair, which will be broadcast live over the Internet. But the plane is hijacked by terrorists led by a deranged fan who doesn't hesitate to eliminate anyone who gets in his way. An extremely tense trip for all passengers and internet users, who watched everything without being able to do anything, while the plane, out of its route, headed towards disaster.

God forbid we travel or work on a flight like that, which disrespectful people are not even young, old men, rude women, that doesn't even represent rock, stereotyped and prejudiced, but I left to taste the terrorism simultaneous to the turmoil, but from the same of the previous ones, but I like the style, drama and action in the air... The most boring of them all, cartoon characters, but not very captivating...

It wanted to be Passenger 57 starring Marilyn Manson

[filmnut1 · 4/10 · 10 March 2011]

The bizarre pitch for this airborne thriller is Passenger 57 (1992) starring Marilyn Manson. It involves a controversial heavy metal group performing an internet-streamed gig aboard a jumbo jet, co-piloted by Rutger Hauer, that's hijacked by Satanists.

Screenwriter Wade Ferley clearly had no shortage of ideas, the problem is he didn't know how to develop them and so the film skitters between several characters involved with or observing the unfolding mayhem.

Despite all the onboard chaos, much of the time is spent with additional characters on the ground. A pointless sub-plot involves a Clarice Starling-style FBI agent tracking down a notorious computer hacker and other scenes involve Joe Mantegna.

Director Jorge Montesi has an extensive history in television and a handful of features under his belt. Unfortunately his experience fails to give the film anything more than a cheap TV movie feel. Locations are suspiciously absent of extras and very bland to look at, while the principle cast members spend the majority of the time in separate locations from which the fail to venture far from.

An early indication of budgetary limitations is the opening sequence. Craven is identified as this fictional world's Marilyn Manson, a character whose popularity is equalled only by his controversial status. Greeting him at the airport are his legion of dedicated fans and protesters clearly representing the religious right. But either side's numbers are so few it's difficult to suspend disbelief and enter into the story.

However, once you accept its limitations of budget and scale, Turbulence 3 becomes a fun thrill ride surpassing the majority of Airport (1969) clones. While its use of air disaster clichés, such as the on-board threat, communications with the tower/ground authorities and the final landing sequence (followed by the shot of emergency vehicles and survivors exiting the plane), place it within a specific genre, it's cultural themes to mark is very much as a film of it's time. It has a unique identity and it's trying to capture the zeitgeist; it just does it badly.

This is one of those movies in which there are plenty of familiar faces and names, but none of these are the main characters. Many in Turbulence 3's supporting cast have a history in the air disaster genre. Craig Sheffer returns from Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying (1999) but portrays a different character, unconvincingly cast as a hippie hacker. Sheffer and co-star Gabrielle Anwar and Rutger Hauer were also together in Flying Virus (also made in 2001) and he completed a quadrilogy of air disasters with TV movie Cabin Pressure (2002). Co-star Joe Mantegna had earlier appeared in Airspeed (1998).

The most complex sequences take place aboard the plane and feature none of the headlined stars. Unknown John Mann got a chance to shine in the dual role of Slade Craven and his psychotic doppelgänger. Craven is not as embarrassingly cartoonish as he could have been and Mann makes the role his own, exploring not only the public and private dimension of the rock star, but also his truly deranged double - enhanced with a vocal dub.

Mann, who performs 2 mediocre tracks as Craven, does a good job in stripping away the theatrical aspect of his character without ever removing his make-up. Unfortunately the impact is undermined by a late moment where our mock-satanic hero takes a moment to pray, as if to confirm he is indeed a good man.

The starring role in Turbulence 3 didn't do much for Mann's career. He eventually made it to the higher profile films in roles such as as "bouncer" in Catwoman (2004), "convict" in The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) and "Viking doctor" in Pathfinder (2007).

Slayed by Slade. His power has stayed

[rigsofdad · 10/10 · 24 July 2021]

After 18 years of teaching film theory at various Ivy League institutions, I had found myself in a rut. Each semester, I was forced to show Citizen Kane to my students as the definitive film on the use of film language in character development. With the arrival, no pun intended, of Turbulence 3, I no longer have to sit through Orson Welles heavy handed vanity project every six months.

Imagine my excitement when my friend, Andrew Knost, sent me a copy of this straight-to-video triumph. Slade Craven is simply the finest lead character ever to be lensed. John Mann, in what could be the performance against which all future lead men will be judged, takes control of the screen from the first frame he is in, to the final, heart-wrenching moments when his character must land the plane. Mann is aided by the brilliance of Wade Ferley's take-no-prisoners screenplay, which features character development that would make Dostoyevsky himself feel like a hack. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Director Jorge Montesi uses his camera with the weight and authority of a modern day St. John the Evangelist. The visual work is so visceral and uncompromising that one is left with the sense that this is not merely a work of art which rivals the Mona Lisain importance and timelessness - it is the word of God himself.

In my long career as an academic, there come along movies which I feel I must show to my students to truly demonstrate the heights of human genius. Ishtar, The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh, and Ernest: Scared Stupid, among others, come to mind. However, no film has ever come through the screen, grabbed me by the shoulders, shaken me, and demanded me to teach it as Turbulence 3. Not only do I show it to my classes each semester, but I have started an after-school program where we discuss the best way to use the film to end genocide in the third world.

I have been left so humble by the film's greatness that I only make love to my wife as Slade Craven.

I invite everyone to watch this film and decide for themselves whether it is the greatest film ever made or the greatest single event in human history.

You Don`t Want To Miss A Minute - You Want To Miss The Entire Film

[Theo Robertson · 2/10 · 24 June 2003]

There`s a film called CABIN PRESSURE that stars Craig Sheffer and is about a computer geek hacking into a plane . TURBULENCE 3 :HEAVY METAL stars Craig Sheffer and involves a computer geek hacking into a plane . Hey is this a new concept amongst film makers ? If so then I`ve just written a sword and sorcery quest trilogy called THE LORD`S RING and I`m hoping to get Ian McKellen , Elijah Wood , Viggo Mortenson and Christopher Lee to appear in it. If there`s any Hollywood producers interested in it please contact me.

Maybe I`m misleading you about HEAVY METAL and CABIN PRESSURE because despite having an identical premise they do both play out differently though they are both very dumb films with gigantic plotholes . HEAVY METAL ? Why`s the film called that ? Just how popular is that musical genre nowadays ? I mean if Def Leppard or Guns And Roses held a concert nowadays they`d be hard pressed to fill a phone box never mind a jumbo jet . Did I mention the concert takes part on a jumbo jet ? And if you`re not allowed to smoke on airlines then how come this airline allows thunder flahes and other pyrotechnics to go off in their planes ? And when`s the last time you saw heavy metal fans without a beer gut ? And it`s laughably obvious that the singer Slade Craven is based on Marilyn Manson , but isn`t he a nu-metal artist ? so surely this movie should be called TURBULENCE 3 : NU-METAL ? Actually the one thing I did like about this film is the way it implies that Manson isn`t the danger to society as is made out . I`ve got a strong instinct Manson`s the sort of guy who goes on tour and tells the roadies to keep the noise down because he`s got to be up early in the morning for bible study ( And he does seem to be the most intelligent interviewee in BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE ) and Craven is shown here as being concerned about the lives of his fans and colleagues . But this was the only thing I liked about the movie .

My comment for Turbulence 3

[Leigh L. · 8 May 2001]

I suppose the main question is why Rutger Hauer's even in this film, playing a role that could have been played by literally anyone and only interacting with about two other cast members throughout the entire running time. But never mind.

Yes. Turbulence 3, then. Here's the story: a Goth rocker holds a live Internet-broadcast concert on a plane, but gets himself knocked out and replaced by a conveniently identical Satanic terrorist who wants to crash the plane into Kansas, leaving him to struggle free, fight his way through the other terrorists, clear his name and save everyone on board. Yes, the hero of this film is a skinny death rocker in full Goth make-up, whose only allies are a hacker and Gabrielle Anwar as the world's least convincing FBI agent several hundred miles away.

Sound good? Go ahead, watch it - it's appalling, and tries to serve up all the very worst Hollywood cliches as if they were ingredients in a full gourmet meal. Where's Ray Liotta when you need him?

Don't bother unless you are a HUGE Rutger Hauer fan

[Hermit · 3/10 · 3 July 2004]

I had no idea what to expect when this movie came on Cinemax. At first, it seemed it might be interesting. But it soon disappointed me. I tried to get interested, but had nothing which to grab hold. So, I sit there waiting for this movie to get interesting. Nothing happened. What a complete waste of time. Hardly any action. Hardly any writing. Hardly a plot. Dumb storyline, dumb everything. Bad acting all the way around. Even Rutger Hauer, whom I usually like, seems to be in another movie. Just don't bother wasting your time. Anybody's time is worth a LOT more than this stupid movie. Now, I'm merely babling on because this movie review database requires a minimum amount of words. So, since I have nothing else to say about this movie, this is all you get.

Just shoot me !

[finflash · 1/10 · 1 August 2002]

This must be one of the worst movies ever made . I wonder why any producer agreed to pay for this crap. The story of the movie is almost more lame then the movie itself , and the actors in it suck. Even Rutger Hauer blows his own head off , propably because this is a little too much "B-movie" even for his liking . Anyway , the story goes like this : Death metal artist has a gig in a boeing 747 (he actually plays some strange 'non-death metal marilyn manson-wannabe songs in it , and ooooh how it sucks.Then the artist gets clubbed by "devil worshippers" ,and since he is maked up with white paint like the members of the good band KISS used to be ,his fans cannot see it's a terrorist devil worshipping man who appear in front of them instead of their idol Slade Craven , and the plot thickens ....God damn this was lame , they even show it on pay per wiev TV in sweden , so i hope some of you swedes see this before you pay for this crap . Grab a pizza or something instead!!!.

bad

[Mickey Knox · 4/10 · 27 July 2002]

The only reason i watched this movie is because i am a rocker and i was intrigued by the plot.

Indeed, the plot seems interesting. A metal concert will be broadcasted live on the internet, from the board of a plane. It all goes wrong when the singer of the band turns out to be a terrorist.

There are two good things about this movie: 1) the soundtrack - full of rock / metal tracks 2) the fact that it keeps you watching till the end. I don't even know why that happens, because the movie sucks, but i did not get bored at any point.

The rest is a big fiasco. The actors are not convincing at all. The script seems a left over from an amateur screenwriter, with plot holes bigger than the Pacific Ocean. The story is so predictable, you always know what's gonna happen next.

All in all, this is not a good movie. Why the hell do they bother to make so many sequels to a film that sucked from the first part??

I'm still waiting for the day when i'll be able to see an original, interesting, well done action plane movie.

Vote: 4 out of 10.

Deserves a negative rating!!

[Marynewcomb2013 · 1/10 · 6 February 2019]

This movie is based on a lie!! The title, Heavy Metal is the starting lie!! It's a reference to the music but the music in this garbage film is not Heavy Metal!! The music is industrial goth rock!! You want Heavy Metal, try bands like Iron Maiden, Manowar, Judas Priest!! Those bands are Heavy Metal!! The other lie is the Christian lie that Metal is devil music!! Anything they don't understand is devil related!! Christians have always been that way!! Using Metal as the platform to have a sicko want to attack a Christian cult is WRONG!!! Do not watch this garbage!!!

Waste of time

[tcowie · 1/10 · 3 October 2002]

Well, I just watched this piece of crap on satellite....Marilyn Manson lookalikes battling in a 747? C'mon! And, as if the FAA would have sanctioned a rock concert in the first place....Anyway, a couple of hours I'll never get back in my life...

turbulence 3

[sexylips69 · 1/10 · 27 February 2006]

this film was utterly diabolical i enjoyed the first one and the second one because there was suspense this one was a sorry excuse to try and line another directors pocket with millions.come on who can actually hold a rock concert in a 747-400 and then to have it hijacked and the plot of having a hacker trying to sort the mess out was even worse i think it should have never even been released like i say i enjoy the first one and second but this one should have stayed in someones rubbish imagination.and never even been discussed.and to have total unknowns was even nastier.please think twice before releasing a fourth please

Wonderful low budget Film

[stacykancheli · 9/10 · 11 January 2005]

Made with very little, Turbulence 3 uses its budget very wisely and manages to tell a fairly big story on an intimate movie budget.

Great casting is where it started, and it's actually amazing to see the number of really good actors that the producers of the movie managed to assemble.

But it would all go for naught without a good story, and a good story it is.

Very well-paced, it just keeps you involved with likable characters until the end.

Very worth seeing.

I can't believe they made this: Incredibly stupid

[Systematicer · 1/10 · 23 August 2004]

I got nothing but bad words for this flick. It's just stupid. From the first to the last minute. Unbelievable. This is one of the most stupid films I've ever seen.

The """Heavy Metal""" music for the most part is Goth-Pop, or whatever you wanna call it. The music was as sweet as a half naked girl. Nevermind.

Slade Craven (John Mann) is just unbelievably ugly. Not because of the make-up. He's just an extremely ugly guy and nobody (and certainly not millions of fans) will think this guy is "HOT".

And this "Simon Flanders" thingy. WOW! I mean...WOW! At this point the stupid writer surpassed himself. How mindless...were they all brain dead or what?

What are their names...Wade Ferley...and...Jorge Montesi, the director. Don't get me wrong guys, but they would really deserve to be dead. Killed by some REAL satanics...yeah, that would be cool. Chr-Chr-Chr!

Entertainingly bad mess of stereotype and cliché.

[aloep · 26 September 2004]

This is the third "Turbulence" movie I've seen, although none of these "sequels" are real sequels at all, they just have the same basic premise and the same clichés. In fact, what these belong to is a group of terrible low budget aeroplane "thrillers" starring Craig Sheffer which includes Turbulence 2: Fear Of Flying, Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal, Flying Virus and Hijack'd.

What amazed me about this is that it's almost identical to it's Grade Z prequel. While last time we had a "Fear Of Flying group" onboard, which a member of ends up as the hero, this time we've got Slade Craven, a supposed Death Metal God performing his farewell concert on an aeroplane along with his biggest fans, and he himself ends up being the hero. I'm trying to decide which of the two is more stupid. This is certainly more far fetched, but come on, "Fear Of Flying Group"? That sounds like something out of Father Ted. The two movies are so similar, let's compare them both shall we:

Psycho takes the plane hostage. This time taken over by somebody who looks and sounds exactly like Slade Craven and is played by the same actor, but the real Slade Craven is actually tied up in the back. I can't remember what the demands of the hijacker in the previous movie were or if he even had any clear demands. But what this hijacker wants is utterly hilarious - he wants to crash it into "the most unholy place on planet earth" so that the world will be taken over by evil. Now if you don't laugh at that, then in my opinion you have no sense of humour!

Passengers who attempt to tackle the villain unsuccessfully several times.

Passenger who gets hold of the gun and then reveals to be in on the plot and on the villains side. Monika Schnarre in this case.

Stock footage used for exterior shots of the plane in the air which are very similar, if not identical to that of the previous movie.

The oh so suspenseful cliché of the pilot being killed and somebody with no previous flight experience having to land the plane assisted by radio from somebody in the ground. In the previous movie we had Craig Sheffer who played a member of the "Fear Of Flying Group" in this role, assisted by Tom Berenger from Air Traffic Control. Slade Craven himself lands it this time, this time assisted by somebody who also has zero flight experience! Craig Sheffer's character is a computer geek who says "Some kids grew up playing Nintendo, for me it was flight simulators". So you've guessed it, he switches on his flight sim and tries to land a plane on it and then guides Slade Craven via this. Oh please! If we go by the logic of this film, then there wouldn't be any need to sit a driving test in a real car, since simulators are all completely accurate according to it.

The characters are either stereotypical or flat out ridiculous. I don't know anything about Death Metal myself as I don't listen to it, but this guy comes off as about as talented as William Hung. The goth fans are all completely stereotypical, and it doesn't help that none of them can act. Then there's Gabrielle Anwar and Craig Sheffer, who's characters are nothing short of stupid. Gabrielle Anwar's character could never pass as FBI for a second, and Craig Sheffer as a hacker is even less convincing. There is literally nothing this guy can't do and he hits out with lots of stupid lines like "That would take somebody smarter than me, and that's not possible" and upon his first words with Slade Craven, he seems more concerned to tell him how big a fan he is rather than worry about his safety.

As with it's prequel and almost identical twin, the silliness of this film leaves lots of questions to be answered. Would they really be allowed to hold a concert on a plane to begin with? Why did fake Slade look and sound exactly like real Slade? (It does attempt to turn you away from this by an unconvincing computer voice matching program saying they don't match but they sound exactly the same to my ear) Is he related in any way to real Slade? Would they really be allowed to fly again in a plane where several murders have taken place?

The movie is low budget and sure as hell looks it. For something set in an aeroplane that doesn't really require the need for much stunts or effects, the obvious stock footage and a very badly imposed explosion of an air traffic control tower bring the look of the product down severely.

Overall, this is awful, Grade Z cheese but it's so overly clichéd, so far fetched and so idiotic that it's impossible not to laugh at it. If you enjoy making fun of a movie, then this is certainly a good choice to pick.

Wow.

[SilentJerry · 1/10 · 10 June 2004]

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.

Great for a laugh (at, not with!)

[sachab · 2/10 · 19 June 2002]

Warning - contains some spoilers

This film is definitely worth watching once for a laugh. You can switch off your brain for a couple of hours because there's no real plot to the film. However I'd put this film alongside others like 'Rogue Trader' and 'Death Race 2000' into the 'laugh at not with' category.

I know they've been downsizing at dotcomes recently, but in the film we see a concert supposedly for '10 million' being run by 2 people in a quiet control room, and just one cameraman on the plane, as if! And you really have to admire the way the hacker instantly gets access to things like an Airline passanger lists, not to mention the convenience of just happening to have a mini radar-screen right there on his desk. There are lots of other flaws but I'll leave you to spot them. Acting and soundtrack are okay, but nothing amazing.