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This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

As part of a Fear Of Flying class, a group of passengers are assigned to a flight to help them get over their fears. Among the passengers are aeronautic engineer Martin Messerman and new couple Elliott and Jessica. However, when the passengers start to fall asleep, it is clear that someone has drugged them somehow – a fear that is proven to be correct when it turns out that a man has a deadly virus on board and is willing to use it. Can Martin overcome his fears and use his knowledge of planes to stop the virus being released? Well take a flipping guess!Baring nothing in common with the original Turbulence apart from the theme of a hijacked plane, this film was screened in the UK under its numbered title and not it's IMDb listed title. Why this happened is beyond me because I can't understand why this film wouldn't want to try and ride on the back of another film (even a film as poor as Turbulence) – God knows it isn't good enough to stand on its own. The plot lacks any sort of logic and merely hopes that, if it keeps the pace up, that nobody will notice that the 'hostages' seem to have free run of the plane, or that the guns never breach the skin of the plane, or that the 'terrorist's plot' doesn't make any sense whatsoever. The TV series 24 manages to do this (cover plot holes with pace and noise) but this film cannot manage it mainly because the holes are far too big and the tension far too loose. Instead it just throws yet another average or poor plot twist after another and it all gets tiresome long before it ends. The production also feels a lot cheaper – the internals look very much like a soundstage and the externals are all a normal plane shot from different angles to make it look like it is stricken, flying up, flying down etc. At least the original Turbulence looked like somebody had spent money on it (even if it was money wasted).The script is as poor as the basic plot. The various twists are silly and the script just keeps on doing the same things over and over again to no great effect while the actors all spout dialogue that is meant to be amusing (it falls flat) or dramatic (it sounds hackneyed). Sheffer is no leading man and he is poor at the start but gets better – maybe if the material hadn't been so bad then he would have been better. Beals is supposed to be simmering and sexy but is neither although she does have an OK chemistry with Sheffer. Why Berenger chose to do this film is beyond me but this is yet another in a bagful of nails that he seems determined to hammer into his career's coffin. Nordling is OK but can barely keep a straight face in some of his scenes while all the rest of the cast just fall into the various airplane cliché roles.Overall this is not an awful film – it is just a typically poor video thriller made on the cheap without any great imagination or effort put in. At best it is watchable and at worst it shows a real contempt for its audience with some things just being stupid as much as they are illogical. I was drawn in by the interest value of this being a sequel to a film I had seen but it had almost nothing in common with that film apart from the plane thing and neither of them being any good! If you want a cheap video thriller then this is no worse than some others I have seen – but this film makes Turbulence look like a good option, and that is not a good thing to say.

...absolutely, bar none.At best corny and clichéd, at worst insulting to my intelligence.For example; when the baddie throws a passenger out of a 747 door whilst flying above the airport, on a stormy night, just to prove a point, the body just happens to fall through the glass roof of the control tower where the team are negotiating with the hijacker. 'nuff said.I feel sorry for the original audiences that will never regain those wasted couple of hours and bemused by anyone who would actually go out and spend money on the DVD. I see in the voting that some people actually gave this a 10? Presumably the director, crew and assorted family.

The first Turbulence movie really reeked (ie. it stunk out the whole cabin), mostly because there were large portions of the movie where nothing much exciting happened. They fixed this problem for Turbulence 2 with wall-to-wall non-stop heart-pounding action. OK, the action isn't heart-pounding but it's certainly wall-to-wall. There's always somebody fighting, running away, chasing, blowing something up, shooting, dying, trying to escape or, of course, flying the plane in turbulent conditions. Oh yeah, and falling...The wall-to-wall action is flanked closely on both sides with wall-to-wall stupidity, but to its credit the movie does not take itself too seriously. How could it? A fear of flying group takes a ride in a plane with a bunch of terrorists with a bomb on board which then heads towards a storm. Ha ha, yeah right. Now, it's up to the fear of flying passengers & crew to save the day which they do with varying degrees of success. When ANOTHER crew member gets shot attempting to overthrow the bad guy the bad guy says something along the lines of "Aargh! what's wrong with you people?". It's delivered beautifully.Actually, the acting in general is really very, err, well capable. I was going to say good, but in the context of this movie it wouldn't quite fit. I'm only giving this movie 4/10, but it's a fun 4/10. Chill that beer, microwave that popcorn, hand over your $2 to the video shop, switch off brain, press play, enjoy.

The plot of this film is just so preposterous it makes "Airplane!" look like a slice of gritty realism. Nervous flyers on a plane in a terrible storm with evil European terrorists (no clue as to what their cause was, other than "being evil"), deadly nerve gases, dead cabin crew, drugged ice cubes, gun fights, a missile attack, and an ordinary Joe who has to land the plane (he has a dead wife, and an impossibly cute little son, of course).As the action lurched from this implausible random plot twist to that piece of clunky, cliche-ridden dialogue, I found myself being charmed by the sheer awfulness of it all.My favourite part is when a terrorist starts babbling in Czech, and Jennifer Beals offers to try and interpret since she learned a few words of Polish from her Grandmother as a child. Seconds later she is in full swing: "He says that there is a deadly nerve gas in the hold, and he will press the detonator killing everyone within a 5 mile radius"....Whatever did her grandmother talk about all the time that she picked up that vocabulary?