Very well executed

That was an excellent one.

As Good As It Gets

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Admittedly, I only saw about 10 minutes worth of this stinker. As a professional aviator with a fair amount of jet experience in the Lear-60, an airplane capable of flying at 51,000 feet, if just barely when the conditions are super-favorable, i.e., so light as to be nearly out of fuel, with colder than usual air temperature aloft, I can assure the casual viewer that no 747, albeit a very capable, powerful and fast airliner, is able to attain 52,000 feet, especially with 16 hours of fuel on board (so I've read in other comments)-- if a 747 is capable of such a fuel load (no operator of a 747 would put that much on to merely cross the Atlantic), notwithstanding the aerodynamic fact that its minimum and maximum speed limitations would be so close together, if not inverted, that it would be out of control, and notwithstanding that the occupants wouldn't merely be having some difficulty breathing, able to complain how they're having trouble breathing when their blood should be boiling in their dead, distended bodies at such a toxic altitude (at such height pressurization is no mere comfort-- that's why an astronaut wears a spacesuit) as the jet is depicted from exterior POV to be climbing amongst puffy clouds where there simply aren't clouds-- where there isn't enough moisture to form clouds where the temperature tends towards minus 50-60 degrees centigrade, never minding the fact that lightning strikes on airliners and other much smaller aircraft are commonplace and rarely more than reason for expensive inspection and repair to electronics and engine parts, as a pilot this movie transcended the "so-bad-it's-good" realm clear around and back into the "so-bad-it's beyond-good-and-back-into-worse-than-bad- so-bad-I-haven't-the-words-to-describe-how-truly-bad-it-really-is" realm of cinematic surreal stupidity. There's plenty more to criticize, including the inane dialog, but I haven't the time, inclination nor room to continue. Aviation is oh-so-rarely depicted with even a hint of basic research in film and television-- and this one epitomizes this apparent law of cinematic storytelling. Pity it wasn't written as an absurd comedy.

Well, this movie is somewhat entertaining or boring. What's your opinion? There a lot of errors about the aircraft and a lot of other stuff. The aircraft, a Boeing 747, has a lot of errors in it. The plane would change its color from the Executive Decision livery, to plain white color, and finally red, white, and blue and with the "Royce Air" words. I don't even see any control wheel on the flight deck of the aircraft. The flight deck don't even look like the what the 747 has. As you look closely in the cockpit, you could see that the instruments are all burned up and so are the pilots. The pilots look like burnt charcoal. Why would a laptop control a 747? The oxygen masks came from the back of every seat instead of coming from the overhead. I don't know what else to say about the movie, because I haven't seen it in four years. I saw this film from the Fox Family channel before it became ABC family. Anyway, this film does kill time when you are bored.

This movie is so great! It's so far over the top that it becomes amusing. I've seen it twice together with my sister and we couldn't stop laughing. Everything goes wrong in the plane, one thing after another. And the hero who has to save them all has this incredibly dramatic face while the main actress looks as if she's seen a ghost... I really recommend this film but please don't take it seriously, it's so much better if you see the humor in it!

Maybe I was in a forgiving mood, but I didn't think 'Panic In The Skies!' - exclamation! - was that bad. On a sliding scale for plane-disaster movies, it was somewhere near the top. The cliches, given that the genre demands at least a few, were limited: nobody had a mobile phone easily at hand (Airspeed), and there were no pilots (Rough Air), doctors, or nuns with guitars among the passengers. Nor were ground control on hand to help. There was the lone child, the pregnant woman and/or newly pregnant stewardess, plus the elderly couple, but I would have started to get really nervous without some familiar stereotypes. What about the Bar-B-Pilots, though, or the dog attack in the cargo hold? And for the 'stewardess who holds it all together before falling in love with the conman hero', we got 'stewardess who falls to pieces' as a bonus package (normally the hero pilot's role). How's that for equality? The computer graphics let the climax down a little, but all in all, I really didn't end up cringing in my seat (see Final Descent, and its train sequel, Final Run. Guffaw, snort).