Flight to Danger

When I picked up the DVD box called "Women Who Kick Butt", I thought it was a pretty good deal: 10 movies for about 20 dollars, meaning 2 dollars a movie. Now that I have seen 4 of those movies, I'm starting to feel like a sucker. "Flight to Danger" is the kind of movie they should pay THE VIEWER to watch, not the other way around. The camera-work? Atrocious. The sound? 50% of it inaudible. The picture? Worse than a supermarket security camera. The fights? Absolutely no contact in most of the hits. The acting? Well, I won't be too hard on them, obviously they weren't professional actors. Some of the girls are decent-looking, but that can't begin to save this inconceivably bad movie. Funniest scene: a man pretending to be electrocuted (though there are no sparks) by a barbed wire fence. Funniest line (from those that can be heard, anyway): "When I was in Paris, I met a lot of famous people, like Don "The Dragon" Wilson"!

The title sounds like it's one of those "Flight 258" or "Hijacked!" sort of movies i.e. flights-that-go-wrong sort of deal. Well, it's not. It's about some sort of screwed-up Martial Arts school students who get involved with some sort of underworld figures somehow(?). Anywho, it's all pretty bad. The highlight for me was the excellently crafted Venice Beach sequence, featuring guy-with-balloons and roller-blading-chick. Awesome.

The leading ladies are pretty mean, or so the writers (hah!) would have you believe. They beat up big clumsy slow dudes with a simple "roundhouse kick" or punch that looks very, very, convincing.

All I can say is that talking about the film is better than watching it...

I have seen a lot of horrible movies. Many are bad enough to be funny in their own right. Clearly 4 of the people in this movie voted "10" on this fiasco. The director / star of this video cast a bunch of no-talent wannabe actors and actresses, to perform with a script that is choppy, discontinuous and completely uncompelling. The attempt to make California look like Paris was lost when the Palm Trees on the strip came into full view. Save yourself the hour and a half of misery and suffering and read a good book, because this movie is unwatchable.

OK, so it's pretty bad. But you can laugh at the badness. The sound fades in and out, the picture gets all choppy sometimes, and it's hard to work out why certain scenes are included. But the fights are top notch, and the mystery surrounding what is in the box will keep you glued to the screen.

People start to get killed by 'mobsters' after not delivering some disks, but we're not really sure why they are delivering the disks in the first place, or why they don't just hand them over to the baddies when their delivery target is killed.

The hangover scene is a piece of impromptu genius.

Overall it's not good but if it makes you laugh it's not a 1. It's a 2.