Flight of the Phoenix 2004

Reviews (15)

1. A

   Andy Summers 🤠 8 月 23, 2026

   Director John Moore’s filmography isn’t that great. That’s an understatement if I’m honest, the man who destroyed the Die Hard franchise, remade The Omen, and brought Max Payne to the screen with such aplomb that Mark Wahlberg bagged a Razzie Nomination. His cinematic career started off with potential, the half-decent Behind Enemy Lines had Gene Hackman and Owen Wilson attempting to uncover genocide in Bosnia, and with his second film Moore tackled remaking Robert Aldrich’s 1965 film Flight of the Phoenix. It flopped at the box office, but surprisingly it wasn’t bad at all. Both Aldrich and Moore’s films are very similar, well Moore’s film is a remake, so you’d expect that, but Moore’s film doesn’t have quite the acting…

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2. J

   Justin Morissette 8 月 23, 2026

   Giovanni Ribisi is a weird little guy, isn’t he.

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3. J

   Jordan Beaumont Anderson 8 月 23, 2026

   Envy those who died in the crash, for they will know a world without Giovanni Ribisi.

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4. ♡

   ♡ abigay 8 月 23, 2026

   what did miranda otto ever do to deserve being stranded in the desert with 13 incredibly annoying men?

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5. M

   Mos Co 8 月 23, 2026

   It was a bit shit how they dudes tipped up to attack them just at the very moment they got the engine started. To be honest when I saw this was starting on Sky I had it mixed up with “Flight of The Navigator” but left it on when I realised my mistake.

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6. W

   William Cooper 8 月 23, 2026

   Re-watch I’ll always remember that when I first saw this with my wife, we both liked it because this rewatch was problematic, to say the least. The stilted dialogue, poor visual effects, leaden performances, and sloppy direction mean this is forever taken off my rewatchables list, but I have the memory of enjoying it with my wife upon release so I will always choose to remember that over what this film actually is.

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7. 👽

   👽hayley👽 8 月 23, 2026

   elliott: oh yh i’ve only ever built model planes btw me: nUTS

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8. C

   ConnorK 8 月 23, 2026

   My greatest weakness is early-2000s films that are really rough around the edges. You guys are no fun! This is such a blast! Sure, this movie has poorly-written dialogue, character’s aren’t that great, has VFX of it’s time and includes a twist that’s actually hilarious. But, everybody seems to understand the kind of movie they’re in. There’s also a handful of really great sequences and set-pieces here. The film for one, looks gorgeous. A significant amount of really great motivated camera movements that keep things interesting. The opening plays like an opening sequence in a Final Destination film, and the finale is unironically white-knuckling. This also has a pretty great score from Beltrami. This also happens to be one of the big films from my childhood, so maybe my opinion doesn’t matter! This movie just makes me feel good! Who cares, 5 stars. Nothing is real.

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9. S

   Steve Robinson 8 月 23, 2026

   This film is 20 years old, and yes compared to films today you could argue some of the CGI is suspect but actually it holds up pretty well for a 20 year old movie. Quaid, Otto, Ribisi, Laurie and Gibson are all excellent and the drama, editing, acting and script all hold up well. I know this is a remake of another movie but on its own two legs this stands up well and I’m glad I gave it my time.

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10. B

    Brennan 8 月 23, 2026

    There was a stretch in my childhood when I used to have this movie playing all the time in my room. For some reason I just really liked it back then. It’s nothing special but I still kind of like it now. Dennis Quaid was in a fair amount of decent to good movies around that time.

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11. E

    eerieBell 8 月 23, 2026

    The best scene in the movie is when Sticky Fingaz stops the song to play ‘Hey Ya’ by Outkast instead and everyone gets instantly all happy and cheerful like they ain’t stranded in the middle of nowhere in random ass Mongolian dessert.

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12. M

    Marsh404 8 月 23, 2026

    Flight of the Phoenix is one of those pure trips down memory lane for me, a film I caught early on through TV that left an imprint less because of its quality and more because of the moment in time it’s tied to. It’s not particularly memorable as a piece of filmmaking, and it goes without saying that it’s leagues inferior to the ’60s original, which I really do need to log soon, but there’s something about this version that always makes me smile while it’s on. It’s comfort viewing in the truest sense, the kind of film that plays well in the moment and then almost immediately evaporates from memory once the credits roll. That’s exactly why it sits comfortably my watchable by forgettable range, which, believe it or not, includes some genuinely enjoyable watches for me, films like this that may not linger, but still deliver a pleasant experience while they last.

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13. N

    Narate 12 月 11, 2024

    _”The design is perfect, the only flaw is that we have to rely on you to fly it.”_

    I grew up always seeing the poster but never watching this. Now that I have seen it, I can see why. It is a little boring and just not that interesting. Something tells me the original must be the one that has all the flavor.

14. C

    CinemaSerf 9 月 4, 2023

    I think to be fair to this reimagining of the story, it tries to be different from the 1965 version. They shift the location and update the dialogue and up to a point that gives it a fighting chance. A plane gets caught up in a sandstorm over the Gobi desert and crashes. It falls to the survivors to work out a plan before the water runs out. Sadly, though, aside from the efforts from Giovanni Ribisi as designer “Elliott” (and that’s because at times he resembles Hardy Kruger) the acting is pretty woeful. Dennis Quaid ought to be commended for taking on the Jimmy Stewart role – that was never going to be easy, but he just hasn’t the screen presence. The rest of the ensemble form an unremarkable bunch and John Moore’s direction does little to deliver any sense of peril or desperation as their predicament gets worse and their personal relationships become more and more fraught. It looks ok, but in the end comes across as little better than an OK television movie that I questioned the necessity for.

15. D

    drystyx 4 月 18, 2023

    This could be one of those “so bad it’s good” movies some day.
    It’s a remake of the classic film about men in a hopeless situation when their small plane crashes in the desert. Hope comes back when one of the men reveals he can make an airplane, and the others believe him.
    In such a story, the subplots and side stories make the story. Here, the subplots and side stories are cartoonish and contrived. The characters are totally without motivation. One can almost see the actors wince about being part of such a horribly written story.
    In fact, one almost wonders if it was written for the purpose of some day being a “so bad it’s good” story. I’m not sure. There really isn’t any charm to this movie, no inspiration, no motivation, and that might be too bad to even make the “so bad it’s good” list.