Air Marshal (2003)
A commercial jet plane has been hijacked by a group of terrorists who don't realize that a U.S. Air Marshal, Brett Prescott (Dean Cochran), is among the passengers. The fate of dozens of people lies in the hands of Prescott, who must forge a one-man war against the hijackers destructive plans.
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Horrible, fascist and poorly acted
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
If you like fake Hollywood cookie-cutter movies, this is the film to beat. Despite being overtly explicit with its support of racial profiling and portraying Muslim Arabs as terrorists and big hunky white guys as heroes, the plot line is overly-predictable and the characters shallow and annoying. The acting isn't bad, nothing too amateurish though. Certainly written in the post 9-11 heyday, continuing the Hollywood stance of marginalizing targeted branded minorities of the sorts done in Air Force One and True Lies. Also, the camera shakes throughout the movie, simulating the plane flying through air - gets annoying.
A fun action film about terrorist high-jacking of a flight. Dean Cochran portrays Brett Prescott... The Air Marshal. With innocent lives at stake, Brett knows what he has to do. I found a copy of Air Marshal at the video store. I was worried it wouldn't be worth my time or money but I was wrong! I actually ended up buying the DVD. The plot and acting was very good, and the action was non stop.The casting was superb, and so was the directing. Special effects were pretty good as well. With great acting from up and comer Dean Cochran. I would love to see more of him in future films.
I just got through watching Air Marshal, I rented it after I saw him in Targets of Opportunity. He is hot. The movie was OK, I didn't like the special effects but Dean was great. I don't really understand the people who put down movies the way that they do. They obviously didn't have that big of a budget for this movie and they probably still made a lot of money. I looked it up and Air Marshal played in many different markets and is still on the shelf at my local Blockbuster, the girl behind the counter told me that they rented it a lot and sold a bunch of copies. People are so critical these days of people's hard work and they just enjoy sitting around with nothing to do trying to criticize people who are out there doing it. I'd give the whole movie Air Marshal about 6.5 stars but I'm giving it a 10 because I think a lot of people marked it way too low just to be funny or mean.
It's great to see that using a flight simulator PC game enables a small kid to control a high-tech, partially crippled jet airliner in real life. Imagine how much more secure I'll feel next time I fly!Also: if any airliner shook that much for the entire flight, I'd be thinking about NEVER flying on one of those planes again. Or did the cameraperson have some sort of nervous twitch? =)