I think I saw most of the movie. I got most of the normal first-date banter out of the way during the previews - and I'm telling you right now - there isn't a single movie coming out this fall that doesn't suck a nut.
After some random shenanigans with a crate of frozen fish that's actually concealing some other kind of crate for no good reason, the movie opens with a scene where some asshole hotel customers are harassing the temporary manager. I'll explain the significance of this later. Some random VIP is staying at the hotel the following day. Woohoo.
Anyway, the main character woman/hotel manager is rushing to the airport, the temporary manager calls her about the annoying customers, saying "There are no bad guests, just guests with special needs" they fix things up for the asshats, and such. All is well in the universe - until the main character chick arrives at the airport. Delayed flight. Meets freaking creepy ass guy in line. Has drink with freaking creepy ass guy, who "guesses" her favorite drink - a Seabreeze. She dodges that, and orders a baybreeze instead. BFD. Anyway, she boards the plane, which, on the interior, is a Boeing 767 - the exterior is an Airbus A319 The reasoning behind this is apparently that they actually painted a real plane, and the A319 was the smallest passable airliner they could find. Of course, there were only 2 exterior shots in the entire movie, 1 of which was CGI. Turns out, she's sitting next to the creepy ass guy (what was he doing already on the plane? She left for the gate before he did)
The takeoff resembles a freaking earthquake. There's some vibration during takeoff on a real plane, but this is retarded. The violent shaking continued into the climb-out. They blamed turbulance. That kind of activity closes airports. Annoying. The set was built on hydraulics, so the plane actually shook. However, the cameras weren't on hydraulics. They stayed stationary while the plane shook like hell (otherwise, you'd barely know it was shaking) - the end result was the fakest looking sh!t turbulance effect EVAR.
Airplane sound effects were good - during takeoff and climbout they were exactly as expected, and during landing you could actually hear the thrust reversers. Didn't notice it during cruise, not even sure it was there.
The VAST majority of the movie takes place from only three camera angles. One on the guy's seat, one on the girl's seat, and one on both. Oh boy. Anyway, shortly after leaving the ground, the creepy ass guy reveals the entire plotline of the movie. He's an assassin working to kill the VIP that's staying at this woman's hotel. He wants her to call the hotel and move him to a room where they can kill him better, or they'll kill her father. They blew the ENTIRE movie right there. So much for suspense.
He basically shoots down every attempt the woman makes at attracting attention to him and his threats - though on a real plane, red eye or not, everyone on the entire plane would know what the hell was going on (they were making that much of a commotion over it). But nobody cared. Oh, and there's a token little girl who's flying alone on this flight, too. I don't know why she's there. She plays no role in the plot other than a cute "awww" moment at the beginning and a cheapo giggle in the middle. Eventually she makes the call, moving the VIP to another room. He refuses to call off her father's killer until they've spent a little more quality time together.
During landing, cue stupid sob story about her being raped and never letting it happen again. She stabs him in the neck with a pen and bolts off the plane. He pursues, after removing the pen from his trachea. Cue comedy routine where they're both dodging airport security and chasing after each other. Chick steals some couple's car. Calls the hotel on her cell phone while rushing to her dad's house. Tells temporary manager to evacuate the building. She does so. In one of those stereotypical hollywood moments, the VIP just barely avoids getting iced by a shoulder-launched missile that had been aimed at his room.
Chick arrives at daddy's house, rams the assassin with the stolen car, killing him. Movie seems to be over, blah blah blah, she gets on the phone to the hotel, suddenly, she discovers that her daddy's been knocked out by the guy with the hole in his neck. Stupid horror-movie-esque chase scene through the house. She beats him with a field hockey stick (apparently, she played field hockey, though she has cheerleading gear all over her closet when they show it in the beginning). She gets tossed downstairs. Shoots dude once with silenced pistol she picks up off the dead assassin. Dude disarms her. Father picks up the gun and finishes the fscker off. Typical hollywood sh!t.
Final scene of the movie is the woman talking to the temporary manager in the hotel lobby, which is filled with FBI, praising her about how good a job she did. Cue stupid guests from the beginning, who are bitching and complaining about how bad everything was. She tells them off. BLAMMO. Movie is full circle - end it here - it'll be perfect. NOPE! They insert a stupid line line "Lets go get a drink." "Sure, anything but a baybreeze"
KJGFHDFSMJDLSJLFHKGHK ARGH END THE MOVIE WHEN IT'S SUPPOSED TO END, DON'T INSERT SOME FVCKING SLAPSTICK LINE AT THE END THAT DOESN'T BELONG THERE.
I picked up on several examples of obvious product placement -
There was a blatent image of a Costco card shown when the assassins stole daddy's wallet in the beginning (they held frame on the card for at least a second)
When she stole the car, they held frame on the JEEP emblem for at least a second
The pretzels they were handing out in-flight were Martins branded (clearly)
Her cell phone, which they held frame on a half dozen times, was a Nokia (and clearly marked as such)
"Armored Escalades" (in reference to the security detail's vehicles) - not "Armored SUVs"
They name-dropped the Hilton once.
Everything else was carefully disguised as a generic.
Overall, though... I think I liked it. The movie itself was cliche and full of inconsistancies and politically charged to leech off the present-day world situation. But the X-factor was there. And it was a movie, primarily taking place on a plane, where the plane DOESN'T crash. How freaking cool is that!?
EyeMWing's Rating: 3/5
EyeMWing's Date's Rating: 3/5
# of people in the theater: ~30
Time of showing: 3:30PM
After some random shenanigans with a crate of frozen fish that's actually concealing some other kind of crate for no good reason, the movie opens with a scene where some asshole hotel customers are harassing the temporary manager. I'll explain the significance of this later. Some random VIP is staying at the hotel the following day. Woohoo.
Anyway, the main character woman/hotel manager is rushing to the airport, the temporary manager calls her about the annoying customers, saying "There are no bad guests, just guests with special needs" they fix things up for the asshats, and such. All is well in the universe - until the main character chick arrives at the airport. Delayed flight. Meets freaking creepy ass guy in line. Has drink with freaking creepy ass guy, who "guesses" her favorite drink - a Seabreeze. She dodges that, and orders a baybreeze instead. BFD. Anyway, she boards the plane, which, on the interior, is a Boeing 767 - the exterior is an Airbus A319 The reasoning behind this is apparently that they actually painted a real plane, and the A319 was the smallest passable airliner they could find. Of course, there were only 2 exterior shots in the entire movie, 1 of which was CGI. Turns out, she's sitting next to the creepy ass guy (what was he doing already on the plane? She left for the gate before he did)
The takeoff resembles a freaking earthquake. There's some vibration during takeoff on a real plane, but this is retarded. The violent shaking continued into the climb-out. They blamed turbulance. That kind of activity closes airports. Annoying. The set was built on hydraulics, so the plane actually shook. However, the cameras weren't on hydraulics. They stayed stationary while the plane shook like hell (otherwise, you'd barely know it was shaking) - the end result was the fakest looking sh!t turbulance effect EVAR.
Airplane sound effects were good - during takeoff and climbout they were exactly as expected, and during landing you could actually hear the thrust reversers. Didn't notice it during cruise, not even sure it was there.
The VAST majority of the movie takes place from only three camera angles. One on the guy's seat, one on the girl's seat, and one on both. Oh boy. Anyway, shortly after leaving the ground, the creepy ass guy reveals the entire plotline of the movie. He's an assassin working to kill the VIP that's staying at this woman's hotel. He wants her to call the hotel and move him to a room where they can kill him better, or they'll kill her father. They blew the ENTIRE movie right there. So much for suspense.
He basically shoots down every attempt the woman makes at attracting attention to him and his threats - though on a real plane, red eye or not, everyone on the entire plane would know what the hell was going on (they were making that much of a commotion over it). But nobody cared. Oh, and there's a token little girl who's flying alone on this flight, too. I don't know why she's there. She plays no role in the plot other than a cute "awww" moment at the beginning and a cheapo giggle in the middle. Eventually she makes the call, moving the VIP to another room. He refuses to call off her father's killer until they've spent a little more quality time together.
During landing, cue stupid sob story about her being raped and never letting it happen again. She stabs him in the neck with a pen and bolts off the plane. He pursues, after removing the pen from his trachea. Cue comedy routine where they're both dodging airport security and chasing after each other. Chick steals some couple's car. Calls the hotel on her cell phone while rushing to her dad's house. Tells temporary manager to evacuate the building. She does so. In one of those stereotypical hollywood moments, the VIP just barely avoids getting iced by a shoulder-launched missile that had been aimed at his room.
Chick arrives at daddy's house, rams the assassin with the stolen car, killing him. Movie seems to be over, blah blah blah, she gets on the phone to the hotel, suddenly, she discovers that her daddy's been knocked out by the guy with the hole in his neck. Stupid horror-movie-esque chase scene through the house. She beats him with a field hockey stick (apparently, she played field hockey, though she has cheerleading gear all over her closet when they show it in the beginning). She gets tossed downstairs. Shoots dude once with silenced pistol she picks up off the dead assassin. Dude disarms her. Father picks up the gun and finishes the fscker off. Typical hollywood sh!t.
Final scene of the movie is the woman talking to the temporary manager in the hotel lobby, which is filled with FBI, praising her about how good a job she did. Cue stupid guests from the beginning, who are bitching and complaining about how bad everything was. She tells them off. BLAMMO. Movie is full circle - end it here - it'll be perfect. NOPE! They insert a stupid line line "Lets go get a drink." "Sure, anything but a baybreeze"
KJGFHDFSMJDLSJLFHKGHK ARGH END THE MOVIE WHEN IT'S SUPPOSED TO END, DON'T INSERT SOME FVCKING SLAPSTICK LINE AT THE END THAT DOESN'T BELONG THERE.
I picked up on several examples of obvious product placement -
There was a blatent image of a Costco card shown when the assassins stole daddy's wallet in the beginning (they held frame on the card for at least a second)
When she stole the car, they held frame on the JEEP emblem for at least a second
The pretzels they were handing out in-flight were Martins branded (clearly)
Her cell phone, which they held frame on a half dozen times, was a Nokia (and clearly marked as such)
"Armored Escalades" (in reference to the security detail's vehicles) - not "Armored SUVs"
They name-dropped the Hilton once.
Everything else was carefully disguised as a generic.
Overall, though... I think I liked it. The movie itself was cliche and full of inconsistancies and politically charged to leech off the present-day world situation. But the X-factor was there. And it was a movie, primarily taking place on a plane, where the plane DOESN'T crash. How freaking cool is that!?
EyeMWing's Rating: 3/5
EyeMWing's Date's Rating: 3/5
# of people in the theater: ~30
Time of showing: 3:30PM
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