1 out of 5

Director: Alain Jakubowicz

This started as acceptable cheese, with bad to horrible acting from almost all the primaries (and the non-primaries, actually), the charming “powerful” opening where we learn that non-Americans like to be crazy and shoot American flags, and the various subtle character introductions to setup a plane with a senator, some terrorists, and a U.S. Marshal. I was on-board (no pun intended, seriously) for the high-air overwrought hi-jinks as you discover who the terrorists are (this was actually played out pretty well) and what their plan is. Nicely, Dean Cochran as Brett Prescott – even though they try to shoot angles to make him look ripped – is a pretty average guy, and doesn’t go all completely superhuman on these terrorists, but gets shot and knocked out fairly easily. And the terrorists get a *somewhat* fair shot, as not every foreign person on the plane is bad, and they’re not all “hate America”. So things started at a respectable two stars. …But then the movie somehow drags on for 30 minutes too long, even at 84 minutes, and drops way too many plot bombs in the last 25 minutes to hold attention of even those with low expectations.