Chris F

Awful. I don't know how you mess up a story about a plane hijack so badly, but the "creatives" behind this project managed it somehow. The story doesn't make a shred of sense. Most of the supporting characters act like idiots. The ending is absurd. There's not a single plot twist that took me remotely by surprise (I mean, was anyone remotely surprised when the baddie drove into a forest and switched cars ?). I could go on. Idris Elba is supposed to be a master negotiator but comes across as a know-it-all fool whose reckless behaviour endangers everyone on the plane. His wife is apparently a renowned professor of quantum physics (!) yet opens her lecture with inane cliches about Schrodinger's cat. The writing is embarrassingly juvenile. What I find most offensive is the check-box "diverse" casting that portrays every white man as either an inept fool, a coward or a baddie. It gets tiring, very quickly. Oddly the plane is filled Indians, Arabs, Africans and a few White people but not a single Chinese or Japanese person. They weren't "diverse" enough, I guess. Like I said at the start, awful. I cancelled my subscription after watching this, it's really that bad.

This is a truly awful movie. I could go on about the paper-thin plot and the slow, drawn-out chase scene, but the main problem is that there's zero actual drama or tension. Brad Pitt and George Clooney might as well be reading from cue-cards. They're basically just playing themselves, and at no point do you believe that their characters are real, or that they might actually be in danger. They come across as obnoxious know-it-alls who spend the movie acting cool, trading "witty" quips and arguing. This might have been watchable if the script were better and the two leads weren't so smug and annoying. As it us, it's really sad to see two decent actors take on such awful roles. I can only assume that they were both paid very well indeed.