Best movie of this year hands down!

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Absolutely the worst movie.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

An airline pilot who has lost everything electrical, hydraulic, wind and steam-powered on his plane makes contact with PHX center via cell phone and says "Roger Phoenix, we are not going anywhere." If you don't understand the problem with that, you will probably think this is a good movie. The dialogue comes fast and furious and is full of in-crowd jargon, but also full of ATC non-sequiturs. I got the impression a copy of the script was cut up into strips that contained one line of dialogue AND one line of action on each strip, then each strip pasted on a 3 x 5 card; then the cards were shuffled very thoroughly and the movie shot in order from the resulting stack of cards. A REAL air traffic controller would find hundreds of lines with technical errors; you would think that control towers and centers (ARTCC) were interchangeable. In a scene near the end, when all the airplanes PHX ARTCC was controlling have all gotten on the ground, the controllers all close up shop and go home, leaving the ARTCC unmanned, except for the hero and a few other important characters. Then when they assume that the last airplane has crashed, they all climb up the stairs to the tower, which is apparently conveniently on top of the ARTCC (which is never the case), and the hero ARTCC controller guides the plane in from the catwalk outside the control tower cab. A complete list of the technical improbabilities, inconsistencies in dialogue and unexplained scene shifts would fill a 500 page book. I say all this having been an air traffic controller and ATP rated pilot. Again, any pilot or controller who thinks this is a good movie was not paying attention.

This movie has glaring continuity errors. Like Sutherland tapping on a laptop which vacillates between being on and off.And its clichés - the ex-air traffic controller involved in a previous disaster who's brought back to save the day. Groan. It really didn't need worn out clichés which only made me think "Airplane!". A regular guy in the job would have sufficed. And moments like the instant brewing romance lacked subtlety too.Set those flaws aside though and this is a good movie. Most of the acting is convincing. And even though the plot is simple it kept my interest and had me rooting for them till the end.Despite its flaws it drew me in. A simple story and for the most part, well told. Well worth watching.

I am no air controller. Have'ent got any idea of that business. But the set looks like scraps from old 60's movies. The music sounds like a keyboard, and is genuine not that good. The cast does not shine, it looks like amateur night at the theater. Including Kiefer. The plot circles around little green dots on a round screen, and a whole lot of talk.Why should I care, there is no deeper investigation in human nature, just blah blah blah. Jack is a haunted man, but why, non of it was his fault, man take a bow and yawn. 2 out of 10. The 2 star goes to the mechanic!! Yes I am a Trekie.

...judging from "Ground Control", a near infinite number.There is the brilliant hero whose career is shattered by an accident he could not stop. There is the crusty, but likable boss running the day-to-day work, who will do anything to get, his friend, the hero to go back to the only job he was meant to do. There is the ambitious female executive who will cut any corner to make the higher-ups promote her. There is the affable engineer who with little money to work with, uses his brains and talent to keep the equipment working; all the while fighting the powers-that-be for enough cash to keep everything functioning. There is the hotshot controller with a constant stick of gum in his mouth who considers the hero a has-been that doesn't belong; but comes to respect him for his work. There is the safety guy, who has given up on being a real man and only nit-picks in order to destroy the other controllers. There is the new girl, mousy and afraid, who by the end becomes confident and...takes of her glasses to reveal a beautiful woman. There is...You get the point. The story is as original as the characters. The production is good and very professional. The pacing fine. The acting is fine. All in all, an okay film with a company of likable actors and okay (if modest) special effects. Just don't see it after you've seen "Airplane!".