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Skybound (2017)
Astonishingly awful.
Nothing about this farce is worthy of even one star. It was a toxic mix of technical stupidity, ridiculous improbability, uninspired writing and the worst 'acting' I have ever seen. I almost had a coronary infarction when this one moron seemed to climb out on the wing (at 200+ mph) to chop off an engine...with a small hatchet. This abortion was apparently, judging from the credits, made somewhere in the Balkans, even though the HB tail number of the plane belongs to Switzerland. If that other reviewer who claimed to be an airline pilot really is one, I hope to hell nobody I care for ever rides with him.
Flight (2012)
Very near the top of horrible movies I have ever tried to watch
As a 40+ year professional pilot, I can almost always manage to watch and enjoy any movie that involves airplanes, but this debacle was so awful, I couldn't make it all the way through even after trying on 3 separate occasions. The plot, the acting and the script were just abysmal, other than that it wasn't too terrible. At least I didn't pay money to watch this abortion. I can't understand why directors don't just go ahead and hire a professional pilot to consult when they make movies about airplanes, it would be a minor expense and would help to eliminate the idiotic and embarrassing mistakes they all seem to love so much.
Hyper Sonic (2002)
A great candidate for a list "Worst movies in history"
It didn't even take 10 wasted minutes of my life to discover this hideous excuse for a film is less entertaining than watching paint dry. Perhaps to a totally stoned 4th grader it would be marginally interesting but then so would a trail of ants on the floor. No part of this debacle is even close to real or realistic. But I sure would like to get some of those binoculars that let people watch every part of an intercontinental air race. It never ceases to amaze me that movie makers who want to have airplanes in their film only rarely manage to dig up an actual pilot, or engineer or SOMEONE who isn't a total doofus, for technical advise. Another hard to believe fact is that they have the nerve to charge admission to crap like this. Boo, hiss.
Crash Landing (2005)
The spoiler is that there's nothing to spoil!
Maybe this movie was actually intended to be satire like 'Airplane' but it failed at that as miserably as it failed at being a 'thriller'. I don't understand why they couldn't have paid an actual pilot a couple hundred bucks for a little technical advice. Hell, I would have done it for free! This magical aircraft managed to morph from a 757 to a 767 to a 747 in an hour and the power levers worked backward. And the dialog sounds like it came out the back end of a kid's game of 'telephone' where everyone spoke different languages. I actually rewound the TIVO and watched some of it a second time to see if it was really as bad as I thought at first. It was.