caspian-93243 I have watched four minutes of this film, and can bear to watch no more. In these four minutes alone, I have seen:1. An airliner flying at FL250 (or 25,000ft) with the landing gear extended and with the flaps in a landing configuration.2. The first officer says that the #2 engine N1 is falling, then it cuts to the engine display where the N1 is stable.3. The captain and the first officer are both flying manually, each holding their yokes at the same time.4. After the flight attendant informs the pilots that the engine is on fire, the first officer looks at the captain and asks: "What do we do? Captain?" - in fact he should know exactly what to do, as it would have formed a huge part of his training and type certification. There are checklists that exist for that very procedure.5. They then try to restart the engines by slamming the throttle levers to full, then idle, then full, then idle.6. They make a mayday call to 'Central Tower' at FL250.7. Footage of the plane 'crashing' reveals a third engine...I'm sorry, I can't bring myself to watch any more. If you know absolutely nothing about aviation, then perhaps you would be able to watch this film - but I just cant do it. I'm sorry.

GeorgeSickler Oh, wow! This movies is so awful that it quickly stopped being ridiculously stupid and funny, and just returned to being awful again.Just one over-worn "disaster movie" event after another, which frankly doesn't make sense in so many places in the first place.Just for a few highlights: What on earth is this blinking light doing in the cockpit that's controlling everything and wants to kill the captain and injure the first officer, change the flight plan and eventually try to kill everybody? Is it H.A.L. Jr., the son of H.A.L. that went amok in the classic "2001--A Space Odyssey" movie from the 1960s? At least this H.A.L. Jr. didn't say, "I'm sorry Dave. You can't do that." after killing all the rest, as his dad did with the crew on the "2001" spaceship.Only after "H.A.L. Jr." drops the plane to 10,000 feet does it decide to turn off the oxygen and everybody begins to pass out. Well, pressurized aircraft don't pump oxygen into the cabin in the first place. It's outside air that goes through a pressurization process, even at 35,000 or more feet.And at 10,000 feet, you don't need a pressurized cabin. They could open a window in the cockpit. Even back in the 1930s, the first DC-3 could fly over the Rockies, during a test, on one engine at a higher altitude than 10,000 feet, and it wasn't a pressurized aircraft.For that matter, passengers who went to the bathroom and lifted the lid to the toilet on a DC-3 got a straight-down view of the ground.And it just goes on and on. The SR-71 "Blackbird" that transferred the guy to the Boeing 747 was designed to operate at several times the speed of sound, not the speed of a 747.The 747 aircraft itself, in flight, was stock footage from Boeing.And, when the gal finally landed the plane, she didn't lower the flaps until the wheels almost touched. Huh? And the guy in the tower forgot to tell her how to reverse thrust, increase RPM and apply the wheel breaks to bring the aircraft to a stop.UGH! And they all lived happily ever after.

TheLittleSongbird There are worse disaster movies out there than Turbulent Skies, it at least has some novelty value in how goofy it is, but it is still poorly done in many ways. The movie has a cheap and grainy-coloured look to it, right from the choppy way it's edited and the effects at best are laughable. The music sounds very cheesy, the ambiance has a lot to do with it, and is often inappropriately used. For example like drowning out what's happening and what's being said or being scored in a way that jars with the mood of the scene. You even laugh hearing the dialogue and not in a good way, it sounds very awkward and often delivered in a strained way, the worst of the lines causing unintentional humour. The dramatic parts seem melodramatic and ham-fisted and parts that should be fun have no tension whatsoever and are so ridiculous even for a disaster movie, a genre where suspension of disbelief happens a lot but this ridiculousness comes across as insulting. The story has novelty value, but often goes at a pedestrian pace, it's so predictable you have no problem what happens next and there is very little sense that anybody cares about the situation they're in, diluting any kind of suspense and tension. The acting is poor too, not even Brad Dourif, a talented actor who has had his share of good films, can save it. Casper Van Dien, who's quite wooden here, and Patrick Muldoon can't do anything with their material and most of the cast don't even try to act. Nicole Eggert's cleavage has more personality than them. In conclusion, very bad in pretty much every area apart from some novelty value, and that's only really if you're in a generous mood. 2/10 Bethany Cox

fakkeldij This was broadcasted by commercial TV RTL who apparently have the distribution right and released it in Holland a few weeks ago. We estimated the movie to be from the '80's or earlier given the pathetic "special effects" (well, they were special - I'm sure my two 11 year's old nephews could have matched the computer art work easily). But it appeared to be brand new. The acting looked like it was some kind of parody on something but as nothing was funny we think it wasn't. The story, ...never mind. Goofs are sometimes hard to find but in this movie they are just common. The writer must never have been in a plane let alone the cockpit of it.The 4 is because it's so bad that you should see it to believe and that makes it funny in a way....Dick & Elke