Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534 (2001) (TV)

Director:

Jon Cassar

Writer (WGA):

Jim Makichuk (written by)

Release Date:

4 December 2004 (Finland)

Genre:

Action | Thriller

Tagline:

At 30,000 Feet No One Can Hear You Scream.

Plot:

Having taken the blame for an accident beyond his control, pilot Mike Hogan has been on administrative...

Plot Keywords:

Murderer | Pilot | Disaster | Digit In Title | Airplane

Cast

Eric Roberts	...	First Officer Mike Hogan
Alexandra Paul	...	Flight Attendant Katy Phillips
Anne Openshaw	...	Flight Attendant Tracey Nichols
Kevin Jubinville	...	Captain Jack Brooks
Russell Yuen	...	Roger Lee
Mark Lutz	...	Ty Conner
Sergio Di Zio	...	Steve Johnson
Carlo Rota	...	Cal Matthews
Dean McDermott	...	Grant Blyth
John Furey	...	Detective Kevin Muldoon
Ryan Scott	...	Sam
Kelly Ivey	...	Ripley
Susan Aceron	...	Susan Lee
Eliza Roberts	...	Mrs. Sanders
Daryn Jones	...	Kerry Sanders

Also Known As:

Die Sturmfront - Katastrophe über den Wolken (Germany) (rerun title)
Flug 534 - Tod über den Wolken (Germany)
Rough Sky (Germany) (working title)

Country:

USA | Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Certification:

UK:PG

Company:

Carlton America

Trivia:

Captain Ferguson that appeared at the beginning of the movie is an actual Captain with Air Canada. He was hired to read the script and put realism into the flight deck procedures.

Movie Connections:

References Airplane! (1980)

Average story, poorly made movie

This movie unrolls as if the producers had seen both the "Flying High" (aka "Airplane") movies and then immediately decided to make a serious movie based very heavily on what they saw.

A previous imdb critique of "Sphere" had Sharon Stone's delivery sounding like she was reading her lines as a hostage with a gun held to her head. In this movie, most of the actors deliver their lines like that; or maybe that they're seeing them for the first time ever on a teleprompter.

The good-guy copilot is cheerful and likeable, the bad-guy captain is arrogant and immediately dislikeable. The stewardesses smile brightly at each other as they chat. And on the first meeting of the featured passengers, straight away you could tell who would not live to see the end of the movie. See what I mean? It's altogether far too much like "FH".

The purpose of the savage dog in the cargo compartment escaped me completely.

The computer-generated images of the plane in flight are quite good, but they're not enough to rescue this movie. It was mildly entertaining, but no more than that.