You always hurt the ones you love, sang the Mills Brothers. Tell that to Gerard Butler, who is still feeling guilty over an incident with costar Hilary Swank on the set of their 2007 romcom, P.S. I Love You.
12.01.2023 - 23:19 / deadline.com
You can imagine the committee meetings devoted to finding just the right title for primo action star Gerard Butler’s latest in which he plays an airline pilot encountering lightning strikes that force him to crash land on a rebels-infested remote island in the Philippines. As it criss crosses the airline disaster genre and frightening jungle thriller, why not just tell the public what it really is. While it could be called Terror Island, or maybe Pirates Jungle, or Flight To The Death, the producers came up with the inspired plain Plane. That works well enough for anyone expecting Airport meets The High And The Mighty, but really it is just the first half that fits snugly into that category, nail biting as it is.
Most of the action comes when the plane somehow survives a fierce lightning storm (nice effx here) by crash landing in the largely uninhabited Jolo Island Cluster in the Philippines (Puerto Rico stands in for the actual location), and wouldn’t you know it – no damn cell reception. Fortunately the pilot is Brodie Torrance (Butler), an experienced professional who has command of the situation from the cockpit to encounters with Rebel pirates up to no good on the otherwise deserted island. With Butler at the helm we know we are in fine hands.
It all starts out normally, a New Years Eve flight that is the most sparsely populated in the history of commerical airline disaster movies (my guess is they were trying to save on hiring extras), thus we only have the usual stereotypical passengers from a businessman creep (Joey Slotnick) to pretend toughie (Oliver Trevena) to giggling social influencers glued to their phones (Kelly Gale, Lilly Krug). The fierce weather and lightning strikes mean this plane should have
You always hurt the ones you love, sang the Mills Brothers. Tell that to Gerard Butler, who is still feeling guilty over an incident with costar Hilary Swank on the set of their 2007 romcom, P.S. I Love You.
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