Franz-Erik Weiss Why would the over-head hand baggage compartment be, "A little crowded up there"? The plane isn't even 1/2 filled. Is this film suppose to be a comedy? Czechs, by the way, can usually speak English. I see he suddenly understands English very well. This film has more disasters than my kitchen when my wife isn't home and I have to do the cooking myself. Yep, it's a comedy. So it never occurred to them to toss ALL the baggage off, huh? A bad comedy. You mean all of that groping and fondling in the toilette and she didn't notice he was packing a pop gun and a lethal spear up his sleeve??? She must be frigid! And say ... isn't his ammo clip already empty from that burst in the baggage room? This is an airborne cross-version of "Casandra Crossing" and "Flight of the Phoenix".

sfiver I plan to ask my shrink why - why? - I watched this entire film (on HBO). I truly think I could've written a better script. I could have directed, edited, acted, rewritten the whole thing.What interests me is how movies like this even make it to HBO or cable? Tom Beringer, arguably the most known actor in the "film" walks (sleeps, really) through his part as the air traffic controller. The other characters are so wooden - they would have been better to have used blow-up dollies - the ones with their mouths totally open as the frightened first-time passengers.Well, enough. I'll never fly again. Or, watch doomed flight movies. This was no "Air Force One" and that at least had Harrison Ford and secret pod escape modules. Bill Clinton himself explained the AF1 was not equipped with such.I still need an answer as to why I watched this entire film. Perhaps I am mentally ill?

aloep *Mild spoilers* (Don't worry, there's very little to spoil in a movie like this anyway.)The original Turbulence was a painful experience. Not only that, but it was a legendary flop which didn't even make a tenth of it's budget back on the opening weekend. It defies belief that 55 Million was wasted on such a pile of crap. And what's even harder to believe is the fact that they made a sequel. Although they did make sequels to rubbish like Nemesis, U.S Seals and Operation Delta Force, Turbulence 2: Fear Of Flying has absolutely nothing to do with the original Turbulence and went straight to video. So why have "Turbulence" in the title at all? The name has no value, and is more likely to turn people away than to draw people to it.Since there are plenty of good fun cheesy flicks in the video market, I always wonder why TV here has to keep showing the absolute worst ones. This was shown by Channel 5 at 12:55 AM and was described in the TV listings as "Action thriller with Tom Berenger". Since it has nothing to do with the original Turbulence, I decided to watch it anyway. However, it turned out that Tom Berenger is not the hero, nor the villain, but reduced to a pathetic role as one of the Air Traffic Control guys. Instead we have one of the most lifeless and boring heroes since Michael Dudikoff in Craig Sheffer. This movie was bad, bad, bad. So bad that at times I was in hysterics, and it kept getting worse and worse.Plot: 01/10Basically the same as the original Turbulence. Plane is hijacked, pilot is killed and it's up to one of the passengers to land it. But wait, there's a group of people on this plane who've recently completed a program to overcome their fear of flying and this is their celebration flight! Erm, right.Performances: 01/10Give me a break. This was just hilarious. Jeffrey Nordling's villainous performance is one of the worst I've ever seen. His accent keeps coming back and forth and disappears on long sentences. All he does is snarl and takes his anger out on the passengers, while coming off about as scary as McDonalds Happy Meal. Craig Sheffer is so lacking in talent and charisma that I couldn't care less what happened to his character. And there's something sad about seeing Tom Berenger reduced to such a useless and dull secondary character.Action: 02/10What little action there actually is is far too simplistic and boring to give any kind of impression. We have a few brawls in the many failed attempts to take down the lead villain by the passengers, a handgun which fires about 30 rounds over the course of the whole film without reloading, and a laughable CGI rocket coming up from obviously stock footage of a boat. For a movie marketed as an action movie, anyone expecting anything that can really be called action will be extremely disappointed. If you're expecting to see planes and maybe cars crashing, explosions, good guys shooting bad guys, then you'll be extremely disappointed. This movie has absolutely none of that.Production values: 02/10Pretty cheap, really. The plane interior sets are passable, but there's absolutely no visual flair to the movie at all and everything just smells of cheapness. Not to mention the poor CGI when the bomb is thrown out, the use of obvious stock footage throughout the movie, shots of a plane going through a storm with weather effects that is very obviously digitally imposed.Suspense: 01/10The "hero" who supposedly had a fear of flying shows none of it at all, and doesn't even seem particularly bothered about the whole ordeal. So ask yourself what suspense there could possibly be?Entertainment Value: 08/10This movie is an absolute train wreck, make no mistake about it. However, I did laugh a lot during it. While not as bad in a "so bad it's good way" as Jim Wynorski's Extreme Limits, the incompetence of this flick still made me laugh hard. There were several tedious moments where I turned away from the screen, but it wasn't long before it threw something else at me that had me laughing. There were many times when I thought it couldn't possibly get any worse but it did, right till the end. Like t he scene where the villain throws the lawyer out of the plane just because he hates lawyers! And he happens to land right beside Tom Berenger in the air traffic control tower! Jeffrey Nordling's terrible performance was the cause of many laughs, really. I lost count of the amount of times a passenger would unsuccessfully tackle him. Who were the Czech terrorists? Were they in it together with Jeffrey Nordling's character? After he kills them, none of this is ever explained. Could you stand 2 feet away from an open door in a moving plane? Would a young kid be able to make it onto the tarmac in an airport without getting stopped by security? If you answered yes to those, then you'll probably be able to appreciate this as a good action movie.All in all, this is absolute garbage. But it's all played out in such a way and there are so many continuity errors that it's hilarious to watch. By far one of the worst movies I've ever seen, but also one of the funniest. If you do watch it, watch is as a comedy and you'll make the most out of what really is a truly terrible, but really "so bad it's good" movie.It's funny that many movies that aren't actually intended to be funny, end up being the funniest.

vchimpanzee I didn't see the original, but this one was pretty good all on its own. It starts with a 'Fear of Flying' class being taught by a flight attendant using a simulator, followed by the 'final exam', a flight on a Trans Con Air 747 from Seattle to Los Angeles. One of the flight attendants is late, and when he finally does arrive, he is new and no one seems to know who he is. And a group of suspicious-acting Eastern Europeans gets on the plane. And we know one of the students in the 'Fear of Flying' class has an evil plan, but we don't know which one he is. Martin, another of the students, lost someone in a plane crash and became an aeronautical engineer as a result. Amazingly, Jessica, yet another student, wants to be a flight attendant.The movie was almost a comedy at first, but when everything started happening (and I mean everything--if it could go wrong on a plane, it did), it was clear this was not going to be funny. Much of the time, anyway. I was amazed that with all the great jokes in 'Airplane!' that they missed a possible one. But the similarities between 'Airplane!' and this movie end with the fact that in both movies, numerous crises had to be overcome. Eventually, this movie got ridiculous and I thought I wasn't going to enjoy it any more. It was also more violent than it had to be--just the threat of violence would have been enough to make it exciting. But then the movie got back on track, and the problems just kept multiplying, and one might wonder how anyone could make everything right again. The answer--only in Hollywood! But it was exciting to watch nevertheless. The movie hit 'turbulence' again, but then it was smooth sailing to a fascinating finish that could never happen.Overall, I liked it. I want to see no. 1 and no. 3.