Turbulence

1997

Action / Thriller

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 19% · 21 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 20% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.0/10 10 12571 12.6K

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Plot summary

On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various people on board fall victim to Weaver, it is ultimately down to flight attendant Teri Halloran to keep the aircraft from crashing, with on-ground support from an air traffic controller. While Halloran struggles to pilot the plane, Weaver continues to terrorize the surviving members of the crew.


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Rachel Ticotin as Rachel Taper
Lauren Holly as Teri Halloran
Ray Liotta as Ryan Weaver
Brendan Gleeson as Stubbs
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mm-39 4 / 10

4 out of 10 is about right.

I agree with the other users comments that this film is pointless. I found this movie lacks any feeling, or emotion. No one cares how this movie ends. I do not know if it was the directors fault or the script. My wife likes it, and it could be lost to the male audience. This film is neither scary or tense. I did not like the preview, and it represents this movie well. Another forgettable movie that will someday fade away. 4/10

Reviewed by jboothmillard 5 / 10

Turbulence

I remember watching a short trailer for this movie on a special 1997 trailers compilation VHS from Empire magazine, it is certainly a memorable title, you know it's going to involve a plane going wrong, I was hoping for something reasonably entertaining. Basically Ryan Weaver (Ray Liotta), better known as The Lonely Hearts Strangler, is arrested in New York City, he is known to have raped and killed five women, but he persists he was framed and is innocent. On Christmas Eve, he and fellow criminal Stubbs (Brendan Gleeson), convicted of robbery, are being transported on a commercial flight to Los Angeles, escorted by four US marshals. TransContinental Airlines Flight 7 is almost empty, with only eleven other people onboard, the entire cabin is decorated with Christmas trees, lights and tinsel. The flight takes off with no problems, Weaver maintains a calm, well-mannered and charming attitude, but Stubbs breaks free when using the bathroom, stabbing a marshal with the sink tap handle, and grabs his gun to shoot at the other marshals. During a struggle, a stray bullet is fired, punching a hole in the fuselage, instantly causing an explosive decompression. During the chaos, Captain Matt Powell (J. Kenneth Campbell) is fatally shot, and First Officer Ted Kary (James MacDonald) is killed hitting his head on the wheel, disengaging the autopilot, and a stray bullet pierces a hole in the lavatory window. Weaver frees himself and tries to save the last remaining marshal, but fails when he is shot by Stubbs, after being shot himself, Weaver appears shocked by the ordeal, increasing the trust of the passengers. With the pilots being dead, flight attendant Teri Halloran (Dumb and Dumber's Lauren Holly) makes her way into the cockpit, she is now the only person left onboard capable of keeping the 747 in the air. To make matters worse, the plane is heading for a storm which threatens level 6 (severe) turbulence. Weaver's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, he is paranoid of being sentenced to death upon landing and occasionally suffers nervous breakdowns. He locks the passengers in the crew's cabin and strangles flight attendant Maggie (Child's Play's Catherine Hicks) to death. He then calls LAX FBI control centre and threatens to crash the plane into their facility, he is now on a suicide mission, and is willing to anything to avoid being arrested. Teri realised Weaver's motives after speaking, via the 747's radio, to Detective Lieutenant Aldo Hines (Pretty Woman's Hector Elizondo), who arrested him. Weaver tries to manipulate Teri into believing that he has good intentions, but she knows that many crew members are dead, and the passengers missing, so she forces him into the lower deck and locks the hatch. As the only hope for the plane's survival, Teri is instructed by Captain Samuel Bowen (Ben Cross), via the radio in another commercial flight plane, how to fly and prepare to land. The plane barely survives the turbulence of the storm, and Teri is unsuccessful during the first attempt to land the plane on a runway at LAX airport. The plane skims an office building, a Japanese restaurant and a parking lot, during which it collides with several vehicles, and an SUV is picked up on the wheel, forcing the plane to go up again and alter course. Weaver meanwhile is below attempting to destroy the circuits that control the autopilot, but Teri manages to turn the plane around out of Los Angeles airspace, while a U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat Fighter jet has been ordered to shoot the plane down. Teri begs LAX to give her one m ore chance, insisting that she can land the plane, at this point, Weaver is drunk from drinking champagne and has turned crazy. He breaks into the cockpit with an axe and tries to murder her, but the fighter jet shoots the SUV off the wheel, causing the plane to shake. Teri gets the chance to grab one of the marshals' guns, and picks up a bullet from the floor, Weaver holds him at gunpoint, he teases her that he won't kill him, but she squeezes the trigger, shooting Weaver in the head and killing him. Teri returns to the pilot's seat and safely lands the 747 in LAX, Weaver boasted that he killed everyone aboard, but the surviving crew and passengers are found alive. Also starring Total Recall's Rachel Ticotin as Rachel Taper, Jeffrey DeMunn as Brooks, John Finn as FBI Agent Frank Sinclair, Heidi Kling as Betty, Michael Harney as Marshall Marty Douglas, Licence to Kill's Grand L. Bush as Marshal Al Arquette, Alan Bergmann as Mr. Kramer, Danna Hansen as Mrs. Kramer and R.J. Knoll as Kip. Liotta is a good choice as the villain, first being a creepy charmer, then going full blown hog-wild, and Holly is alright as the innocent but plucky flight attendant, think of this movie as "Die Hard in the sky", because it is essentially the same format, a psycho on the loose in a plane and the person in the wrong place at the wrong who must save the save, some of the dialogue is cheesy, and it is somewhat overblown and ludicrous at times, but it is exciting, you can abandon logic and just go with it, a reasonably fun action thriller. Worth watching!

Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 4 / 10

Absurd psycho-thriller with an elevated setting

Realism is thrown out of the window in favour of maximum excitement in this cheap rip-off of films like CON AIR, except this time the menace comes from Ray Liotta as a manic serial killer who just won't stay dead. Okay, so it's not good, but Liotta gives a nicely over the top performance which lifts this film above the standards it could otherwise have fallen to.

On the downside, the film is full of poor CGI animation which shows the plane flying. This is blatantly unrealistic and the film loses a lot of impact in this way, but that's what a tight budget can do for a film, I guess. Also, there are lots of things which happen which just wouldn't be possible in real life, like a jumbo jet flying upside down, or the plane flying through the top story of a building and yet having no signs of visible damage, let alone avoiding crashing.

As the film's heroine, Lauren Holly is passable, thankfully she doesn't have to scream too much, although she does do some pretty stupid things in the film like go and strap herself in a chair when she should be trying to land the plane. Liotta is by far the best thing in this film, I've been a fan of overacting for a while now and nobody is more intense and insane than this guy; the impact is better because at first he's a nice, pleasant and kind person. British actor Ben Cross, his career on the skids, turns up as a helpful commander, while Hector Elizondo is wasted as a detective hot on Liotta's trail.

Although passing as an action film, there are plenty of horror elements, such as loads of bodies falling out of shelves (think HALLOWEEN) and sitting in chairs. At the end, the film becomes DEAD CALM in the air, with the viewer repeatedly thinking that Liotta is dead, only for him to come back for another shock. My only complaint with this is that Liotta has a rather poor death scene, and is killed a bit too easily. I would have liked to see him get burnt or something and come back for a final attack, it would have been in the spirit of the thing, but that's just me. If you're a fan of bad films then TURBULENCE may just be the absurdity you're looking for.

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