Air Force One Down

We get it. Empowering women and showing they can do all what men can and more is a trendy concept these last years, apparently educating people about this is more important than making a good story. Some great movies pull that off well, like like I Spit on your Grave, Kill Bill or Revenge. This one however comes off as so ridiculously unrealistic it just becomes annoying.

The heroines inability to lose reminds me of the cartoon Roadrunner, where the coyote keeps failing at getting his prey. At first it is amusing, then it just becomes annoying and finally you just hope he gets his meal, as he is the real underdog you end up rooting for.

With her toothpick arms she can throw huge top trained bodybuilders around with ease. Where is the thrill when she will ALWAYS win no matter the circumstances? The only way she could lose is if she fights a minority person or another woman, which makes everything it so predictable it almost hurts. And the plot holes are so dense there is basically no plot just holes.

If you get a kick out of seeing skinny women predictably beat up large muscular men without any effort over and over, this might be for you. If you want a good movie that makes you root for the beat down hero who is clawing through pain and challenges against all odds and make you keep guessing what will happen next on the edge of your seat, then dont waste your time here. You have seen this movie too many times already.

I took the risk on the low score, and I've lost. When I clicked on director name, I saw some references to movies I enjoyed but actually I was ignorant. The references were for stunts, not directing.

This is not an enjoyable movie at all. I find it really insulting my tastes. I will not give names but even B movies are better than this one.

If you think you enjoy a beautiful blond woman kicking ass and killing a lot of military men, go for it. But be aware that the movie script has a lot of exaggerations, mistakes, and wrong ideas. If I take a small vacation, I can write a better script.

You should find something else to do with your time.

The acting was terrible. The writing was terrible. There was not even an attempt to get right such details as military customs and courtesies. Anyone who worked on this as a military or technical advisor should be fired and never work on a movie or TV show again. I had to fast forward through large parts of the film to not fall asleep. Relative to any of the "White House Down"/"...Fallen" movies, this makes those look like the Godfather Part 2. How the hell did this get greenlit? Are you telling me there was no more deserving script available? This was like weak fan fic written by someone who hasn't even bothered to watch West Wing, much less understand the technologies and security mechanisms necessary to electronically control AF1. And a rag tag bunch of thugs from (insert Eastern European country here) a fake country with terrible accents can just smuggle guns on AF1 and overwhelm the home team which knows every inch of the craft in a matter of seconds? Do not waste your time. Seriously. Just awful. The amount of belief that had to be suspended in order for this script to be plausible was so large that you're more likely to win 5 Powerball jackpots in a row than for this garbage to happen. Booooo.

This could have been a much better movie if a tiny bit of realism had been applied. There is no way on earth that the pilot of Air Force one would not have a Secret Service detail posted at his house and himself.

There is no way on earth that with just one phone call (calling in sick) a replacement pilot would be put on the flight without rigorous Secret Service checks and double and triple checks before clearance.

There is no way on earth so many weapons could be smuggled onto Air Force One, even if the terrorists had someone very close to the POTUS.

Other than that, the movie was ok I suppose. I generally like movies with female butt-kicking leads.

The premis is not new, the actors are not either,but they may as well be if they decided this film was a good career move. I must admit i knew none of the actors, but then i do not watch channels like Hallmark as its content does not appeal, but what i have seen of the Hallmark channel is enough to think that this film had to scrape bottom of barrel and borrow a producer from them to make this drivel as no one else wanted to. If bored and want to watch a rehash of a potential good ripoff of a film done better elsewhere then tbh it is not That bad (hence slightly above 5 stars given), but it is bad all the same. Dialogue is corny, premis has potential but script is boring, and the little or unknown to me actors altho do an ok job considering what they have to work with overall are not A list,and in some cases not even D listers,and their acting innability keeps shining thru more often than i would like-watch if very bored, but do not expecxt much and you will not be too dissapointed.