Air Force One ne répond plus

I went into this one expected it to be a cheap knock-off of Air Force One. It's really not, beyond the title and protagonist being a war criminal orchestrating release from prison. The rest of the story is very different. Significantly it's not set on board a plane. I think the book this is based on pre-dates the Hollywood movie.

This is also not a film. It's a TV miniseries. So that makes me manage my expectations a bit om the budget.

With both these things in mind I actually think this is not a bad show. The acting is for the most part decent. There are one or two 'baddies' who are silly cliches. The Serb captain who is smoking the stub of a cigar in every scene is just bad direction. The actor is actually ok when he gets some lines. His female companion is very wooden. Don't think the director can be blamed for her poor acting though. It's just bad! She also smokes constantly. Must be a bad guy thing.

The three heroes of the story are an Irish UN soldier, a British diplomat, and an American journalist. Bit of a far fetched mix but hey it's fiction, we'll let it slide. Linda Hamilton gets a few cameos as the star name actor for the show playing the president.

Refreshingly there are a lot of location shoots in this show rather than cheap set-filming that low budget shows are guilty of. The special effects are not dreadful.

The story is a bit silly in places but overall it's an enjoyable watch. There are enough twists and turns to keep you engaged.

I'm not usually a fan of this genre, but I decided to watch it solely because of one of the actors.

Let me start with the positives: the cast is genuinely likeable. It's a shame, then, that they're wasted in such a poorly made film. Many reviewers have already highlighted the laughable fight scenes, the stereotypical characters, and the heroes' baffling naivety (at times, it felt like a children's show masquerading as a serious, pretentious blockbuster)-and I wholeheartedly agree. That said, against the backdrop of this film's overwhelming ineptitude, the final scene did manage to elicit a good-natured chuckle from me. By that point, I'd accepted it as an unintentional comedy and leaned into the absurdity.

As a Slavic speaker, there was another detail that amused me to no end: a caption on Arkady Dragutin's device reads "podklyuchenie prervannyy", which is grammatically incorrect ("podklyuchenie prervano" would be correct). It's baffling. The creators aimed for a high-stakes blockbuster but couldn't even bother to check their Russian? Marvelous.

After only getting five minutes into the film you just knew it was a one of those megaflop "Mockbuster" movies. The whole thing must of been done on a budget of about £6.00 and a few milk tokens. The whole thing was so awful but I turned it off after thirty minutes due to the absolute rubbish acting and poor special effects that looked like they were done by a child or the SXF of Dr Who in the 1960's. It cost me £5 in the local supermarket but it wasn't even worth that.

Simply ignore buying it and pay the extra and watch the proper Air Force One with good old Harrison!

Ionly saw this in my local sainsburys saying its a movie so when I found it for a pound in a charity shop I bought it.Now I don't normally review online but since its the 30th anniversary of Alistair Macleans death I felt like saying something.Boy oh boy what a disaster!For starters its not an Alistair Maclean novel its his plot written by John Denis.Alistair Maclean is my favourite thriller writer and I've read all 29 of his books but sadly the film versions are terrible.This one bears zero resemblance to the novel.The characters are so wooden woodpeckers could attack them!The action is fair but maybe its the idea that lets it down.A group of heroes with different abilities having to work as a team with a bit of comic relief is so 1980s.If it stuck to the book more and was made in the 1980s it might have worked better.

Watchable, but some hideously bad acting from a couple (the blond Serbian woman was awful) and some really bad erroneous plot-points.