Excellent Movie
10/10
Author: ilovcat3 from United States
14 December 2005

I really have to say how much I loved the character play by Giovanni Ribisi it was awesome to see.(chuis d'accord...pour moi un de ses meilleurs rôles) I would love to see him play in more films like this. Dennis is excellent. The rest of the actors were heart warming to the hilt. It seems like life in a small way..turning negative to positives. Thank God for great writers, and actors!What I wonder about is did they film this movie in a desert? Just curious..And if so, were they able to take breaks a lot, drink water and such? Great Movie! A terrific movie I could see everyday! I wonder too, if at all could any of this really be true? I really enjoy good movies..this is one that is good.

Flight of the Phoenix!
10/10
Author: Movie Nuttball from U.S.A.
21 June 2005

Flight of the Phoenix is a very good film that has a good cast which includes Dennis Quaid, Tyrese, Giovanni Ribisi, Miranda Otto, Tony Curran, Sticky Fingaz, Jacob Vargas, Hugh Laurie, Scott Michael Campbell, Kevork Malikyan, Jared Padalecki, Paul Ditchfield, Martin Hindy, and Bob Brown. The acting by all of these actors is very good. Quaid is really excellent in this film. I thought that he performed good. The thrills and action is really good and some of it is surprising. The Special Effects are great!

The movie is filmed very good. The music is great by Marco Beltrami. Great directing by John Moore. The film is quite interesting and the movie really keeps you going until the end. This is a very good and thrilling film. If you like Dennis Quaid, Tyrese, Giovanni Ribisi, Miranda Otto, Tony Curran, Sticky Fingaz, Jacob Vargas, Hugh Laurie, the rest of the cast in the film, Action, Adenture, Thrillers, and interesting films then I strongly recommend you to see this film today!

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a great movie
10/10
Author: braices from United States
6 April 2005

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

I found this movie to not only be inspiring, but to also give us a good perspective of how people will do anything with hope, and when that hope disappears they will totally lose any hope,(voui...curieux hein ?) and that shines out, both when they agree they will build it, and you really see how they have a new energy, and when they find out he is a model airplane builder,when they lose hope, and you see them actually lose all there energy.

I found most of the acting excellent but some effects were little unbelievable. for instance the wing smashing the chef and him living through that, I still don't get what was supposed to happen there. Over all i think this was a great movie, but since i did not watch the original, I don't know if they met the standards of the original or not.

Movie makers used artistic license
10/10
Author: madmatt7800 from Winston-Salem, NC
2 October 2005

Several things must be said here, the most important being the artistic thought processes of telling a story on the screen. It has been said Flight of the Phoenix has reality flaws, engineering flaws, and (the most "interesting" one) characterization flaws.This movie is based on a novel - a work of fiction. The fun thing about writing, producing, directing, and acting out a film like this is that you can "bend the rules" a bit to tell your story - otherwise known as using artistic license. Many critics don't seem to understand what that means.

A sandstorm of the magnitude that was depicted in the film would have definitely brought the plane down, smashing it into tiny pieces. That is a fact of reality. However, if you stuck with this then you'd have no movie. The film would be over, because all the characters would be dead. Therefore, the filmmakers chose to (very well) crash the plane dramtically and have most of the passengers survive. Speaking of the sandstorm, yes, it was huge, and yes, it was computer-generated, and no, I did not even think about that when I watched the movie. All I could do was get sucked into the action and story, watching this tiny plane get sucked down by this bigger-than-life force of nature.

Building a new plane out of a wrecked one is certainly a far-fetched idea, and from an engineering standpoint is ridiculous. That's the hook that gets you into the story, you see. It's the whole "They can't do that, can they" thing that keeps suspense, along with their struggles with surviving with each other and with limited food and water. These are good things that make for a stress-filled (in a good way) film.

The acting in this film isn't Oscar-winning, but it is real - real characters put together in an unbelievable situation. The struggle with the characters, as well as with a lot of the rest of the film, I think, comes when people who have seen the Jimmy Stewart version try to compare it, as if the new filmmakers were going to do a shot-by-shot, line-by-line recreation. No, this film is a re-interpretation of the story, and Dennis Quaid is NOT James Stewart. All of the characters have been reinterpreted, each actor giving a new, personal spin on the story. It's a different pilot, a different engineer, and a different passenger list. Some names might stay the same, but that's about it.

The screenwriters chose, out of their rights as artists, to rework and update an old story, and they did quite well. I have not seen the 1965 Phoenix, as I'm sure most of the contemporary movie-going public has not, so there's nothing for me to "compare" the new film to. The movie makers succeeded in what they set out to do - bring the story of the Flight of the Phoenix to a new generation of film audiences. The problems only come if you try to compare it to the old one.

A GREAT movie, with a GREAT cast!!!
10/10
Author: michael_shell from United States
13 August 2006

Yes, the original "Flight of the Phoenix" is a gold-standard classic; I mean, come on, it's Jimmy Stewart and an excellent supporting cast!! Well, in my humble opinion, Dennis Quaid and crew do an every-bit-as-good-if-not-even-better version with this dynamite action movie!! The special-effects are also a big star here; the sequence of the plane flying into the storm, losing it's propeller and eventually crashing are thrilling and exciting to watch! As they start to rebuild the plane into a flyable unit, I liked to see the emotions and conflicts among the survivors and how they come together to overcome the desert and the forces of Nature. The directing and camera movement added a more realistic touch, making the movie more realistic and "gritty". Also an excellent soundtrack kept the pace tight and hard-edged! I own a copy of both "Flights" and enjoy watching them both, a lot!! LONG LIVE Hollywood!!!