I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Best movie ever!

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Nicole Stone (Elisha Cuthbert) is a bratty 13 year old who got kicked out of another private school to everyone's frustration. Her father Raymond (Joe Mantegna) is a computer tycoon. She's being flown back on the company 727 jet. A lightning strike hits the plane. The crew is electrocuted and explosive decompression knock everybody out. The autopilot turns on. Nicole wakes up to find a near impossible situation.There are lots of ridiculous technical ideas going on here. It puts 'Executive Decision' to shame. To be fair, the movie is smart enough to reference 'Airport 1975'. The special effects are on the cheap side and so is most the production. The most interesting part is Elisha Cuthbert as a child actress. The rest is a weak action thriller.

The spoiler in this review (and in the movie), is that the little girl lands a 727 and saves herself and the day.This may not be the worst movie I have ever seen, but with confidence, it is in my bottom three. Understand that I love this genre beyond all reason, and never fail to root for the hero/heroine of the Our Pilots Are Dead or Disabled, Can Any of You Passengers Land This Plane movies. And goodness knows, I've watched some stinkeroos. But my goodness, never before have I rooted against the happy ending so aggressively! Please, please let her be sucked out the hole in the fuselage! Or have her neck broken by flying debris! Or let her simply die of hypoxia, since she's too stupid to make a connection between the oxygen bottle she's playing with and consciousness at 35,0000 feet!! When nonesuch come to pass, then I will settle for the smoldering wreckage of the devastating fireball in which the movie (and all aboard the doomed flight) should have ended.I won't even discuss the realities of aviation, (nor insist on compliance with basic laws of physics), but who can possibly find drama in this dreck? Never mind Capt. Sully's extraordinary competence (encapsulated completely in the word "unable"), let's celebrate the true heroics of civilian aviation. If a writer cannot find drama in the single finest piece of emergency civilian flying ever (with full credit to Captain Haynes and F.O. Records), then this crap is all we'll ever be left with. (Haven't seen "Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232," but I'll be looking.) They saved 185 lives which should have been lost; this movie saves one thirteen-year-old who's personality would have been improved by an early demise.If you like the genre, and want civilians saving the day, seek out "Terror in the Sky," and leave this one to the sub-teenagers for whom it may have been written, but who are also much smarter than the writers.Oh, great Joe Mantegna of Things Change and Searching for Bobby Fischer, how could you have led me here?

Rated it 1 only because 0 not available. The girl is pathetically pathetic, the parents are pathetic, the tower crew is pathetic, the pilot of the tanker is pathetic. Ever seen a plane being refueled from the SIDE? The boom is strong enough to support a man? Why not send a pilot to land the crippled plane? Tanker planes don't need indicators or controls, or a co-pilot? I only saw the second half, so I had fun trying to figure out what happened; I speculated that everybody but the girl ate the fish. I expected Paul Ford to come in to talk her down, and fall out of the tower. I kept waiting for Steven Segal. I wanted Montegna to apologize for all the time away from home with the Bureau. I figured the girl would be as effective using the bat on the controls as she was on the boom. But the best part of all is the perfect stop, nowhere near the run-out area, even though the plane came in far too fast, and she took f-o-r-e-v-e-r to throttle back and pop the flaps. Thank somebody for great brakes. Movie must have been made with the intent of it being a tax shelter. If you have the choice, pick the swine flu--it would be less painful.

Hmm, the only entertaining thing about this movie was to read otherpeoples comments on how bad it was. I bet this must be the worst movie I've seen for the last five years..This movie is so freakishly predictable that there's virtuallyimpossible to give away any spoilers, but here goes, the only spoiler:In stead of the girl landing the plane at once, they save some of thepeople with another plane, but then somethings goes wrong and the girlhas (as expected) to land the plane. Also, why didn't the pilot dude from the other plane which came aboardland the plane? I recommend this movie to all people who likes to make fun of stuff...