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This is one of that strange breed of films - the cliche ridden, made for TV that also happens to be fantastically entertaining!

No scenes of tedious plot exposition and no dead-weight back story dragging it down, just a damn fine airplane disaster flick with genuine excitement and a likeable cast.

Good work fellas!

I like Robert Ulrich a lot so that may influence my opinion. I expected to be bored but was not. The acting was good. There's always a temptation to go over the top in these types of films but it didn't happen here. The snippets of the passengers were blessedly short and the emphasis stayed on trying to save the plane. The technical stuff was believable.

Final Descent isn't an original flick.-But first and foremost a solid movie, without all the usual mistakes we're all so sick and tired of! The acting is solid. The plot and script works. The technical aspects seem credible. The outside-shots of the airplane are good. and the special effects are actually flawless. -On top of which Robert Ürich delivers a fine performance as usual. All in all:-A good version of an old idea. You won't be disappointed. I give it 4/6!

This movie is not much realistic, sure. It is more realistic than airport 79 (that movie where a Concorde is far more manouverable than a military jetplane!), but it is obvious... Indeed, I have to say that this Tv-movie is full of nice ideas in the plot, movie ideas, OK, but also funny for this reason. So, if you like the catastrophic genre, take a look at this very economic movie. But don't expect a realistic movie: no one has realized, up today, a really realistic movie about the airplanes.

Although I have rarely flown myself, I am keenly interested in aviation... and this film has added to the precious laughing stock in aviation cinema.

1. Why is the captain doing the ground checks? Why does he even measure the oil levels in the engines? With turnaround times as low as 15 minutes in commercial aviation this is not a typical pre-flight check.

2. WHY does the captain KICK against the aircraft tire? Strange kind of pressure check. Or anger management :-)

3. The cockpit has a crew of 3. All large, western, two-engined jets built since the 1980ies have a crew of 2 people. Now try a guess at how old the movie script is.

4. A helicopter manages to fly alongside the crippled airliner. Must be a fast one... and the captain's words to explain the "maneuver" to the passengers are indeed hilarious ones!

5. With arrested elevator rudders it is always possible to lower the nose of the aircraft. It happens, for example, when any aircraft moves slower than the stall speed.

6. The elevator rudders have hydraulic actuators. After the collision with the business plane it would, most probably, have severed the hydraulic lines and thus make them useless for steering, but it would NOT fix them in certain position.

7. The fire in the aft galley was a stupid idea. It was designed to show that only gentlemen ask for the extinguisher and fight the fire, regardless of who was actually trained to do that – the flight attendant.

8. At the time of collision, the aircraft's elevators would have been in a neutral position. The film could have ended here...

9. The flight engineer (the third person in the cockpit) has three bars on his uniform. In reality, flight engineers have two.

10. Why does the captain slash the cabin casing with an axe to examine the damage behind? I thought it would have been the flight engineer's duty, as he is already supposed to perform technical checks before and after flight.

11. In any aircraft, there is no unused space. At least commercial airplanes cannot afford the luxury of a compartment that can be filled with tons of water.

I could go on and on... but at last I laughed hysterically about how the screenwriters imagine aircraft disasters! Woooohooo! Most aircraft disasters happen in such a short time span that you simply cannot make 90-minute flicks out of them. But you can always fill 90 minutes with mind-boggling and insane crap, irrespective of the genre.

A brand-new jumbo aircraft that fly its self is being piloted by a cowboy who hates computers. Keeping an eye on him is a rival for his girl (the other pilot). Sure, as shoot'n there is a second plane, privately owned and piloted by a 200-hour pilot sort of clips the jumbo. Turns in to the jumbo jet now has disabled the ailerons in an upward position. This is just the beginning.

This movie is closer to the original Airplane movie with the exception that all the people just half expose their past a little at a time as the disaster proceeds. The ending is predictable and the constant problems are part of the formula. However, tithe actors make a very good mix and do their jobs well enough to make you forget that it is a movie.

one of the worst films I have EVER seen, but extremely funny (not on purpose though). Every scene that contains anything to do with; aircraft, romance, script or acting is badly messed up.

I recommend this film for all pilots, it´s so bad that you should burst into laughter at some point in the film (also see Airport 79:the Concorde, for the same reason).

Anyone else, avoid this film like the plague (except for fans of B-movies, of course)

enjoy

Based on the book "The Glass Cockpit" and directed by Mike Robe. The best unbelievably far fetched action movie ever. Semi-Believable acting despite the ok character development. Hilarious story line along with some really cheesy special effects. No way anyone was going to die with Robert Urich at the wheel. No problem goes unsolved with this guy! This would make an excellent Mystery SciFi Theater flick! No kidding, It's just as funny as "The Tomorrow War" with Chris Pratt.

You've got to watch this movie! It is so bad it actually is great.

You've got your crazy but gutsy captain who of course is having an affair with his worn out used to be gorgeous copilot. And of course the mid air collision occurs when the captain's enemy and rivalis along for the ride to geYou've got your ex Vietnam Vet who is can't handle the pressure of another mid air collision and crash landing. Then you've got your old crazy Army Air corp buddy who is flying the chase plane and trying to well I can't tell you what he's trying to do. The plane keeps going up, up and well and then you've got your greedy and immoral corporate engineer and then you've got your Ice Station Zebra cold and then Lucky saves the bad guy from drowing so they can land the plane! aND IT DOESN'T END --- IT JUST GOES ON AND ON! You've got to watch this. It's great! YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING! DID THEY ACTUALLY SHOW THIS ON COMMERCIAL TELEVISION AND HOW IT WAS EVER SHOWN ON CABLE.

The story line is interesting, if somewhat improbable. Some would say down right impossible. But that should not detract from the film. It is no more improbable than the story lines of any adventure movie - James Bond, for example - or many of the fantasy films that are so popular these days. So we should not judge the film on how realistic we think it may or may not be, but on how entertaining it is.

I found "Final Decent" to be very entertaining. It had action; it had romance; and it had suspense. In fact, I would call it the best of the Airplane disaster movies. That's enough for me. I liked it. And I am saddened that it was never available commercially.

Where's the DVD?

This movie is in a way a modern "Airport ´75", which in my opinion is no disadvantage at all. Credibility does not always take a first seat here, but "Final Descent" is nevertheless an exciting airborne drama, that feels refreshing in a time when all similar TV-movies are based on real events. The only thing missing here is George Kennedy as "Joe Patroni", but if he had been aboard, the film would have had to be retitled "Airport ´97"...

I was at Townsville airport, in northern Australia one day, watching a pilot conduct the visual inspection of a DC9 (MD80) which he was about to fly to Brisbane. Just before he boarded the plane, he walked up to the front wheel and gave the tyre a lusty kick. So having a scene where the pilot kicks a tyre is no reason to discount the realism of the entire movie............ I have not as yet seen the movie, but I have always been interested in aeroplanes and anything to do with them, which is why I was watching the pilot perform his pre-flight (something which, I have been told by people who work as aircrew, is a normal aviation requirement).

The script and the actors are so bad, it's almost comical! The pilot declaring his love for his co-pilot which he kept hidden for too many years, 3 Canadian oilworkers opening a hatch (27.000 ft???) to haul in a waterhose, a chopper shooting at the jammed wings of the plane, etc etc. If you have really really nothing better to do, see it and enjoy a laugh.

Incredibly bad plot and writing. Marginal acting. Too many goofs and inaccuracies to count. Flat out impossible physics, and absolutely fictional items and designs of the aircraft.

Other than that a really terrible movie.

Laughable, absurd, impossible..... nobody could suspend disbelief nearly enough to convince anybody that anything like this could possibly happen in the real world.....

What a script, what a story, what a mess!

This rarely-viewed TV movie is a consummately entertaining and believably dramatic yarn involving a jet which seems destined to crash following a midair collision with a small plane. I won't give away any of the novel plot twists, but suffice it to say that they're highly inventive and suspenseful. What's more the heroic pilot -- the role played by the late Robert Urich -- reminded me a bit of John Wayne in William Wellman's classic 1954 film "The High and the Mighty." Admittedly this television production lacks Dimitri Tiomkin's Oscar-winning music, but it's more action-filled in the long run. I've given "FINAL DESCENT" the top score of 10 and only hope it's available on DVD one day.

Now granted, if you are one of those types that complain because your ice water was served cold and wet you might not like this. But if you go into with the knowledge you are not in some USC film class, you can enjoy a lazy afternoon watching this.

Urich is his usual engaging self. This actor while in some pretty broad roles always managed to keep his performance low key.

He does so as the pilot of this doomed plane. There is a question of potentially sacrificing the lives of some to save the others, a nice little addition to your standard disaster movie.

Needless to say that I had never heard about this 1997 thriller titled "Final Descent", as it was a TV movie. Yet, with it being a movie that I had never heard about, much less actually seen, of course I opted to give director Mike Robe's 1997 movie a fair chance.

The narrative actually gets up into a high gear pretty early on in the movie, which definitely was nice. That way the audience are thrusted to the edge of the seat from early on in the movie. Thumbs up to writers Robert P. Davis and Roger Young on that accomplishment. The storyline in the movie was pretty straightforward, and it provided adequate entertainment value, which is the purpose of any movie. Sure, it was a bit generic, but it still made for adequate entertainment.

There were a couple of familiar talents on the cast list, with the likes of Robert Urich, Annette O'Toole, John de Lancie, Ken Pogue and Blu Mankuma. The acting performances in "Final Descent" were fair.

Something that I just didn't understand was why the pilots kept referring to their airplane as a "ship". Maybe I am just not fully familiar with aviation lingo, but it just made zero sense.

Visually, the movie is okay. Nothing fancy or overly impressive. But at least the effects in the movie were fair and actually helped further the movie's narrative, whereas it would have hindered the movie if the effects were atrocious.

Watchable for what it was, "Final Descent" lands on a five out of ten stars rating from me.

Final Descent is a movie that managed to hold my attention, and even make me a tiny bit nervous, not only once, but twice. The spat between Capt. Glen "Lucky" Singer (Robert Urich) and Capt. George W. Bouchard (John de Lancie) over co-pilot Connie Phipps (Annette O'Toole), which has obviously been going on for a while from what we see, serves to liven up the otherwise doomed atmosphere that carries out through most of the movie. Duke Houston (Jim Byrnes) manages to add some more humor: "You want to know about my last flight?" He asks the talkative lady sitting next to him, then continues on with something to the effect that it was perfect because they hadn't said a word to him for the whole flight. That's something that more than a couple of us can relate to.

Overall, it was an excellent job by O'Toole and a nice performance from the rest of the cast. This movie will remain enjoyable as long as you don't watch it too often.

A brand new jumbo aircraft that fly its self is being piloted by a cowboy who hates computers. Keeping an eye on him is a rival for his girl (the other pilot). Sure as shoot'n second plain private and piloted by a 200hour pilot. Turns in to the jumbo jet disabling the ailerons in an upward position. This is just the beginning.

This movie is closer to the original Airplane movie with the exception that all the people just half expose their past a little at a time as the disaster proceeds. The ending is predictable and the constant problems are part of the formula. However tithe actors make a very good mix and do there jobs well enough to make you forget that it is a movie.