Flight World War II (2015) Reviews

• Not The Worst Bad Movie I've Ever Seen

  TheGreatAmericanNightmare2015-06-13

  *A couple huge spoilers contained below* A blatant ripoff of 1980's "The Final Countdown" starring Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen, with about 1% of the acting and effects quality. That said, not the worst bad movie I've ever seen. If you go into this movie with the full knowledge that this is not going to have anything approaching high production values then you won't be disappointed. It's a bad movie. But I kind of enjoyed it. There are some eye-rollers to be sure but the movie was for the most part uniformly mediocre so most of the issues with it didn't bother me. It is somewhat self aware that it is a bad movie and I'll usually give a bad movie a pass if it is a bad movie that knows it's a bad movie. The flying sequences with the German jets were surprisingly well done. The airliner itself is a joke but the exterior scenes of the fighters was better than anything else in the movie. The British radio operator acts quite well given what he is working with. The thing that bothers me more than anything else in the entire movie is how in ten minutes they were able to remove the radar, make a parachute and get it to the correct people. Oh, and the radar fits into a backpack? It looks like someone went to the salvage yard and pulled the grill off a '65 Riviera and called it a radar. Of all things for some reason this was the worst for me. In response to the folks saying it is historically inaccurate. Yes...but they kind of address it in the movie. One of the historians was surprised by something the British radio operator said that made it sound like this was a bit of an alternate history. Sorry, I can't recall what it was right now. The premise gets accepted a little too easily by the crew and the technical errors are too many to count but if you just relax and enjoy your popcorn and overlook the glaring errors you might not hate it too bad. There are a couple decent actors that help ground it a little bit and then there are a bunch of mediocre actors. And a couple downright horrible actors. Meh. It is what it is. My first impulse was to give it a five star rating but that is too much. I give it four because I was never tempted to shut it off. Even though it was relatively predictable and executed poorly, I kind of enjoyed it. Just turn off your brain a relax a little. If you are going to spend almost two hours watching a time travel movie, check out the excellent "The Final Countdown." If you've already seen it and can relax and not over think it, go ahead and give this one a shot.

• Better than the usual B-movie fare

  jaigurudavid2015-08-25

  Much better than I expected! The plot is a bit tired and formulaic, and the special effects are so-so. What really shines in this movie is the acting. It is pretty much top-notch throughout. Faran Tahir is excellent as the pilot (despite the inane and somewhat unlikely character name). Robby Kay is very believable as a young British soldier. Aqueela Zoll is more than just eye candy, and does a credible role as a competent and concerned flight attendant. Worth a watch if you enjoy the alternate history and time-travel genre. SPOILER ALERT: DON'T READ FURTHER IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE I laughed when they portrayed the Luftwaffe flying Me-262 jets in 1940, but later learned that this fits into the alternate-history plot.

• No No No - Crazy

  MennoMan2015-06-10

  Typical Asylum Film... well almost... Shades of "Final Countdown" but not as good nor as believable. First you need to understand how horrible the premise is.. After flying through a storm in the present, the plane ends up over Europe in 1940. After a few With 90 minutes of fight time they want to cut the Radar out of the plane and air drop it from the plane so they can connect it and help guide the plane... As if??? The Radar is complete in a small box in the front of plane.. ridiculous (only the Antenna is int the front.. Radar is tied to avionic in lower bay and connected to screen and controls in cockpit and this is simplistic) The idea 1940 England could even have any idea or compatible components is also crazy...But in this film the British private has it up and running with a screen in less than a minute... Imagine how the semiconductor would change the future. Good Grief.... All the while the same drool music plays in the background... Oh.. almost forgot... Air to Air missiles and Air to Ground missiles in 1940???? AND A stupid twist that really make no sense is at the end. If you want a cheesy "Fly through a Time Zone Storm into the Past Movie" watch the old "Final Countdown" film. Put this in the $0.50 bin with the other Asylum Films. If you bought the DVD... Shhhhhhh! don't tell anyone!

• Not great, but not that bad.

  attbro2015-07-18

  There will be a lot of reviews pointing out the historical inaccuracies and errors made within the film, and I won't refute that. When viewing for the first time I expected these faults in the writing and took them into account. It isn't the worst movie of all time, nor is it the best. The acting is sketchy and the graphics are average at best, but that's not what this flick is for. Of course there are things wrong with it, but that's the point. The film wasn't made for the purpose of historical accuracy, but as a simple sci-fi, action picture that would provide 90 minutes of entertainment. But when you see a description of a passenger aircraft from 2015 travelling through time to 1940, what did you honestly expect? Not a horrible movie, I'd recommend it to anyone who likes basic action and a bit of corny drama.

• Good?

  rfwatson-152502015-06-11

  This is the 3rd film from The Asylum that I have read positive reviews about. What are they now paying people to write good reviews? Or are they logging in and writing them themselves? Either way, a film by The Asylum is always going to be awful. Always check the production company before buying, renting or downloading. If it's done by The Asylum, your wasting your time and money. They wouldn't know how to produce a good film if it fell in their lap. The only thing they know how to do is put out a cheap low budget movie. We can thank the Syfy channel for them. If it wasn't for Syfy buying and airing their crap, they would have folded along time ago.