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Flight Of The Phoenix
2004
A group of air crash survivors are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no chance of rescue. Facing a brutal environment, dwindling resources, and an attack by desert smugglers, they realize their only hope is doing the impossible; building a new plane from the wreckage of the old one... Read more
| Starring | Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Tyrese, Miranda Otto |
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| Director | John Moore |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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Flight Of The Phoenix
A group of air crash survivors are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no chance of rescue. Facing a brutal environment, dwindling resources, and an attack by desert smugglers, they realize their only hope is doing the impossible; building a new plane from the wreckage of the old one...
| Starring | Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Tyrese, Miranda Otto, Tony Curran, Sticky Fingaz, Hugh Laurie, Jacob Vargas, Scott Michael Campbell, Kevork Malikyan |
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| Director | John Moore |
| Studio | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 48 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 48 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 27 Jun 2005 Blu-ray: 12 Mar 2007 Production year: 2004 |
| Format | DVD |
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John Moores streamlined remake of Robert Aldrichs 1965 action-adventure trims 30 minutes from the running time,... read more on Time Out
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Fuel injected action
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45 out of 55 people found this review helpful
Embarassing cringe-worthy nonsense
With a top cast and a budget larger than the national income of an African nation, I popped Flight of the Phoenix into the DVD player, releaxed back into my chair and waited to be impressed. Nevertheless, 'the best laid plans o'mice an' men gang aft a-gley'. Two hours of my life, which might better have been employed doing almost anything else, were spent watching one of the most cringeworthy films ever made. Scott Frank, the screenwriter, should shoulder much of the blame - the plot was 'flimsy', the characters 'two-dimensional' and the dialogue - well that was just embarassing. In short, it looks as if the writer of The Interpreter, mind-melted with an 8 year-old.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
average but long-winded
I can't compare with the original as I havn't seen it but I found this film started off well but was rather long- winded. Probably worth a look and make your own mind up.
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