Plane is in cinemas from January 13, 2023.
Cinema audiences got acquainted with the action and thriller starring Gerard Butler Plane first time through promotional offer Surprisingly. The reveal of the address was the most bizarre in recent memory, as 5 simple letters appeared on the screen saying: Plane “Airplane”, and the fact that it has nothing to do with an airplane at all, except for the first few seconds (imagine if that movie titanic It was titled “Car” since it was what brought Rose to the port.) But in an early surprise in the new year, not only did the aforementioned plane play a major and important role in the film, but also Jean-Francois Richet’s story about an airplane flight that was exposed to unexpected circumstances, and the subsequent escape from a Philippine jungle teeming with militants, was formulated very efficiently and makes a very interesting movie as well.
Marketing might try to promote an action movie, but it’s balanced Plane Surprisingly, it offers a very realistic, cinematic look at the plane and its passengers, similar to Paul Greengrass’s approach to film United 93From the tools to the process of boarding and flying the plane. But unlike a movie United 93the Plane Not based on a true story, this becomes evident when the plane’s captain, Brody Torrance (Butler), suddenly realizes that there is a dangerous prisoner on board, Louis Gaspari (Mike Colter), who is being transferred from Torrance’s headquarters in Singapore to the United States because he is wanted for murder. And that’s where the drama begins… as it looks like something bad is about to happen, as Torrance tries to get his teenage daughter to Hawaii to spend the New Year together.
But Gaspari’s presence is not the problem. Where the main problem turns out to be a stroke of bad luck coupled with some shoddy maintenance makes for a flight Trailblazer 119 is vulnerable to weathering. As a result, series-like disturbances occur Lost Forcing the plane to land on Jolo Island in the Philippines. With this descent, the air marshal accompanying the prisoner is injured, and the flight crew and surviving passengers find themselves without a radio and forced to ration their food. But unlike ghosts and smoky monsters in… LostInterpretation and analysis of villains in a movie Plane Who hide in the depths of the forest more easily. They are armed humans who love to kidnap aliens. But their motives remain obscure.
The real island of Jolo is the stronghold of Abu Sayyaf, an offshoot of ISIS in Southeast Asia, but you’ll need a working knowledge of that area to decipher anything like that. The film’s geopolitics aren’t explicitly spelled out, which makes it weird when the airline sends it on Trailblazer Interested in preserving her image, she recruits her own team of unexplained mercenaries (mostly American) to help rescue the survivors and avert a PR disaster. And here appears an implicit conflict between the West and Asia, specifically with militant terrorists if you know the history of the kidnapping and brutal killing of the island of Jolo in reality, and things become clearer when we discover that both the Scottish Torrance and the American Gaspari, who penetrate the forest in search of help and end up armed Up to the top of their heads, a turn-of-the-century military background. But reality rarely matters in a film directed by Richett, who turns hardcore militants into 2D video game characters deserving of death for their inherent ruthlessness that threatens Western occupants.
It would have been different if the movie had intended to be farcical, gory and beat-up, but… Plane It maintains realism for the most part, which makes it hard to avoid racial imagery during the few times the film attempts to indulge in extreme violence. The bad guys are on the brink of being human, they may not be complex enough for us to empathize with them, but they’re not dehumanized enough to feel like dispensable cartoon characters either.
However, Richett focuses less on the violence of the story than on ending the tensions as Torrance and Gaspari repeatedly enter and exit the larger group, sometimes watching helplessly from afar as the gunmen take control, and at other times engaging in combat and being beaten until they arrive. the support. The initial plot unfolds in a simplistic way that is seldom backed by any soundtrack, forcing Butler to be the emotional centerpiece of the film amid attempts to get messages across to a corporate boardroom. Trailblazer. But don’t get realistic Plane You become deterred by watching it, as it also builds toward some of the most goofy and satisfying kill scenes in recent memory, even if the gore is downgraded a bit to fit the rating. R Lightweight. There are times when the off-screen violence is executed out of necessity, when the story hopes to introduce an element of mystery into Gaspare’s actions and character, but when the camera ultimately focuses on what ought to be horrific, that is rarely the result.
With his acting in movies like Geostorm And Den of Thieves, Butler becomes a reliable action star, who maintains enough intensity and grit to convince us of a story that, while lacking any real morality, at least conveys a sense of urgency and menace. Torrance is a straightforward person who all he wants is to protect his passengers and get back to his daughter, even if that means making a risky decision and setting Gaspari free and enlisting his help. But this mystical tale, in which Gaspari’s humanity is judged and acknowledged only conditionally, is soon forgotten in favor of gunfights, and degenerates into a tale of two men on a mission.
Translated by Dima Muhanna
Plane is an over-the-top realistic action-thriller, brilliantly executed with the help of Gerard Butler’s performance in a story about a pilot trying to save his crew from unknown gunmen with the help of a dangerous fugitive. It may not be a classic of the genre, but there is enough in the movie to be fun.