Mach 2

With a stream of famous names and faces one would think that this would be a great film. Having watched this garbage I have come to the conclusion that none of the actors actually read the script before shooting began. Cliché after cliché after cliché. This produces wooden performances from some names that should know better.

I am sure their accountants were happy when they paid their cheques into the bank, but anyone who bought/rented this on DVD will feel that their money could have been better spent on a tin of paint. They could have occupied themselves watching the paint dry and would have felt more fulfilled.

DVD and obscure cable/satellite channels will use this trash to fill out their schedules.

My advice ... buy the paint. At least you get a choice of colour.

An unexpectedly good movie that could have benefited a lot from a larger budget. Miniatures are used in the shots of the Concorde, and it shows. It was rated R for violence, though it had less violence than most TV shows. Profanity throughout was unnecessary and could have been edited out. Brian Bosworth does an adequate job as the Air Force officer who gets called on when anything goes wrong. Michael Dorn shines in a non-Worf role that shows he can play someone else other than a Trek character. David Hedison is great as the U.S. Senator and is the only actor to look like he was actually walking on a a real plane. Shannon Whirry, who plays his political assistant, shows that she can handle an action role. Best of all are the scenes with the NSA agents.

This was one of the worst movies I have ever seen.The acting,the effects,the plot basically all of the movie was horrible.The F-14 who can't take down a simple Concorde,the stupid lines,the fact that fuel is leaking from the end of the plain where the baggage compartment is and so on,an so on.There was the sexy role of Shannon Whirry which brightens up the movie a little bid.There is also Brian Bosworth who is playing a Michael Dudikoff type of hero who is going to save everybody and he sucked as the hole movie if you ask me.But hey if there are movies like that young actors can find work.And it was a super commercial for the Concorde too.

I don't what the reviewers who have given this film very low scores thought they were watching. It's an average film to be sure but it's entertaining enough to be worth the time spent watching it. I like that the action is live and not CGI produced, to me CGI always looks too obvious and so isn't interesting. The film starts with an action sequence with furious fight scenes, where it has to be admitted that in the shoot out the two protagonists do expend an implausible amount of ammunition without managing to shoot each other, or anybody else for that matter. But how often have we seen that in action scenes? This first sequence introduces the lead character and his potentially fatal flaw: he's a US Air Force Officer who hates heights and can't fly a plane.

The plot has a few over-used elements: a convoluted government conspiracy which can only be plausible to dedicated conspiracy theorists, terrorists who are not who they seem, and a plane piloted by a person who doesn't know how to fly and has to be told how to land it. I'm sure I've seen that ending in two other films.

But the film's quality is lifted by the good acting of the whole cast. Apart from the most cheesy lines they make the dialogue plausible and the scenes watchable, and they are relatable as characters.

1st watched 4/4/2001 - 4 out of 10(Dir-Fred Olen Ray): ok movie, with ok acting, and ok action, and ok story. This type of movie has been done before with much more intensity with some of the same things done that are supposed to bring up the tension(Aka. Person flying the plane at the climatic end of movie has never flown before), corrupt politicians at the top (Aka. President Cliff Richardson) with gung-ho save-all action hero(Aka. Brian Bosworth), and weak love interest(Aka. Sharron Whirry). Lame attempt to recycle.