Concorde

Rating:
Summary: VERY BORING!!!
Review: All I can say is that this is probably the worst disaster film of all time, what got me confused and annoyed at the same time was silly additonal chatacters such as the jive ass with the saxophone,"We're Triplets," and the woman with the small bladder, "The Bathroom's Broken." And of course, Charo, "My hands Cold." Even George Kennedy's acting was off, but none of his bad acting in other films will be as bad as his acting in Airport 75! I think the Airport series should have stopped with Airport 77, I feel so bad now for even watching this film once, I definetly think this is a disaster movie gone wrong!

Rating:
Summary: Top marks for the sheer hilarity of it all!
Review: Another one of those cheesy 1970s disaster flicks succeeds in entertaining in all the wrong ways! In this final outing(one presumes) of the AIRPORT series, the Concorde, with the Russian and American olympic teams on board is under attack from a billionaire arms industrialist whose wife has stolen secret documents detailing illegal arms sales to enemy countries. So what does he do? Attack the Concorde with a cruise missile, a fighter plane and a saboteur. As if this wasn't enough, the plane has to land into nets at Paris - one of the film's most memorable and funniest scenes! There's an impressive cast - Alain Delon, Sylvia 'Emmanuelle' Kristel(keeping her clothes on), George Kennedy as Joe Patroni, Eddie Albert being allocated the best seat on Concorde(! ), Robert Wagner and more. As far as the dialogue goes - examples as follows:

KRISTEL: Oh you pilots are such men! KENNEDY: They don't call it the cockkpit for nothing baby!

(later, as the plane is in emergency dive)SUSAN BLAKELY: Oh my god! Noooo! It's the worst thhhing they can do! Oh God please no we're going into the ocean, oh noooo!(speaking into a tape recorder)

I think one gets the picture. For the sheer audacity of it all, a must see! Highly entertaining in a camp, cheesy way!

Rating:
Summary: The plane starts to fall apart, and so does the movie
Review: For the first 20 minutes of this endless film, I thought this would be a good movie. Then the problems started. Basically, the plot revolves around a female reporter who stumbles upon some illegal arms selling done by an American company to terrorists. Documents in hand implicating the wrongdoers, she hops aboard the Concorde on its flight to Paris and then to Moscow for the 1980 Olympics (which the Americans boycotted, but oh well).

One problem with this is the "Love Boat" casting for the plane. There's Jimmie Walker! He gets high in the bathroom! There's Charo, on screen for 1 minute! There's Emanuelle from those soft-core porno films! There's Martha Raye! There's Cicely Tyson! Her son needs a heart transplant, and she's taking the Concorde, along with the heart, to deliver it to him. Shades of Airport 1975 much (with the kidney transplant)? There's an old lady who has to go to the bathroom when she gets nervous! Isn't that funny? There's Patroni (George Kennedy) who has appeared in every Airport film. He's the pilot of this one, along with Alain Delon. "You pilots are such men!" snips the stewardess. "Honey, that's why they call it the cockpit!" Patroni zings. Score one for the male chauvinists!

There's also a missile or something that's trying to shoot down the Concorde, but the Concorde evades it and lands in Paris but the movie STILL ISN'T OVER. There's another hour and another flight and another dangerous crash landing to get to. The movie doesn't know what it wants to be - glossy international drama? Comedy? Disaster film? It turns into an unintentional comedy, especially with the incredibly fake scenes of a toy model of an airplane flying against a blue screened in shot of a sky.

High camp comedy? Yes! Exciting film? No. I suggest watching this with a bunch of friends and proving your own running commentary over it trashing the film.

Rating:
Summary: Absolutely amusing in places, but still worth a look!
Review: This film is actually quite good, even if a complete suspension of disbelief is needed to watch it. The Concorde, the most beautiful aircraft in the world, is under attack from Robert Wagner as his lover Susan Blakely holds documents proving illegal arms sales to countries not friendly to the USA.

Added into the mix are the Russian Olympic team, and in a throwback to Airport 1975, a human heart is on board for part of the journey - which is really a superfluous sub-plot, though it does help with the amusement factor later on!

The movie actually makes you laugh in places, and the suspense isn't very suspensful anymore, but it's good to grin at, and of course watching the plane is always fun.

Seeing it on DVD would be quite nice as the rest of the series are on DVD now. Also, this movie had extra scenes for Network Television as well, so they would be a nice bonus on the DVD also - from memory there is a good 20 minutes or more. The original trailer would be nice too.

I enjoyed this film an awful lot as a 7-15 year old - it was awe inspiring. As I got older, I came to find it funny - so I guess it appeals to all ages.

The film also features Mercedes McCambridge, an Academy Award winning actess, and it's nice to see a young David Warner (the manservant to Cal in Cameron's Titanic) in a major role. Sylvia Kristel and Alain Delon both play their roles with flair, as do all the minor players. Well worth a look or 12.

Rating:
Summary: everyone got it wrong... not the Airport series.
Review: this show has nothing to do with the Airport series.
everyone is wrong.
this is just a 60 min. show about the first men to fly the Concorde.