Five miles above the earth, an elite team of six men must make an air to air transfer, in order to save 400 lives on board a 747...and 40 million below.
Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is assigned to intercept the plane and hijackers.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Wuchakon TMDB · Jun 20237/10
**_Suspense at 33,000 feet with Kurt Russell_** An intelligence analyst (Russell) inadvertently joins a special forces operation to save a Boeing 747-200 hijacked by terrorists before it is used to attack DC. Steven Seagal plays the mission commander, Halle Berry a flight attendant and Oliver Platt an aeronautics engineers, amongst other notables. “Executive Decision” (1996) is an airliner-in-trouble flick from the angle of “Under Siege” (1992) directed by the editor of “Die Hard 2” (1990). I bring up the latter because this one’s very similar except that it takes place in the air rather than an airport. I didn’t expect to like it because it’s basically “Die Hard” on a plane and I didn’t think a worthwhile movie could be made with such a cramped setting, but work it does. Sure, a lot of the runtime involves rescuers strategizing in the bowels of the airbus using hi-tech equipment, like hidden cameras, but the creators respect the intelligence of the viewer and there are several innovative bits along with great suspense. It was obviously prescient of 9/11, filmed six years prior to that infamous attack. The movie runs 2 hours, 13 minutes, and was shot in SoCal at Norton Air Force Ba
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Cast
- Kurt RussellDavid Grant
- Steven SeagalLt. Colonel Austin Travis
- Halle BerryJean
- John LeguizamoRat
- Oliver PlattCahill
- Joe MortonCappy
- David SuchetNagi Hassan
- BD WongLouie
- Len CariouSecretary of Defense Charles White
- Whip HubleyBaker
Crew
- Stuart BairdDirector
- Jim ThomasWriter
- John ThomasWriter
- Alex ThomsonDirector of Photography
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
- Stuart BairdEditor
- Derek BrechinEditor
- Dallas PuettEditor
- Joel SilverProducer
- Jim ThomasProducer
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