Touches You

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS A movie that rips off "Executive decision" , but also "Air force one" , "Die hard" , "Passenger 57" , "The Rock" and "Broken arrow" . To add an insult to the injury shots of the SR-71 leaving the airfield hanger and taking off where also used in Michael Dudikoff's "Black thunder ". Portions of the musical score were used in Dudikoff's "Counter Measures ".The shots of the F-16 were actually stock footage from the movie "Iron eagle".How the makers of this crap got away without being sued for every penny they had beats me.There is also a lot of stupidity here. Few examples : - A vice president traveling in a standard 747 passenger plane ? The vice president always travels in a US government plane Air Force 2.Why would the kidnappers hijack the Vice Presidents plane ? With all that potential chemical death on board any plane would have done.Why use a plane at all ? Just use a bomb in a warehouse with the chemical.How come everyone in the plane did not die horribly poisoned with the "biological weapon"? - Explosive decompression does not last 10 minutes like shown in the movie - How is it possible that Dudikoff, who did not know how to fly a plane, manages to land a 747 so smoothly and smack in the middle of the runway without any kind of coaching? This is a terrible movie. Avoid it. I give it 1/10.

Dudikoff has done a few Die Hard variations. I just saw another dud recently of his called "Crash Dive" , this one isn't as bad as that film, but that isn't exactly complimentary. Dudikoff can be fun to watch when he has at least an average script to work with. This was another one of his cheapies he made around this juncture. It doesn't have a whole lot of action. If you count unexciting shootouts that are uninvolving, along with a few uninspired scraps, this will be right up your alley. This movie takes itself incredibly seriously, failing to inject much humor into the proceedings. Dudikoff can do this type of thing in his sleep and does at times. He looks bored half the time and I don't blame him. Amanda Wyss is known for her role is Tina in Nightmare on Elm Street. She's gorgeous to look at, wooden as a board performance wise. Bryan Cranston (Yes, Breaking Bad) is so far and above the performances, it's ridiculous. He is a hoot. Overall, go watch the first two American Ninhas or Dudikoff's sadly short lived show Cobra. That is Dudikoff at his best 3/10

This is a low budget clone of "Executive Decision" (1996) and "Airforce One" (1997). It was also made in 1997 more than likely after seeing the other two films and they thought it would be a good earner to almost directly rip off the two big budget films. It is not the worst film ever made (That would have to be "House of the Dead"), but it is quite weak. Apparently a crack team using stealth tactics don't think of using silenced guns, and gun fire in a pressurized plane does not cause any damage. It was funny seeing "Hal" from "Malcolm in the Middle". He looked quite young in this. If you have nothing better to do, it is still worth a watch, if only to spot the direct copied scenes and script errors. Mind you, it was nice to see the old SR71 Blackbird being used. I always loved this sleek high speed stealth aircraft that led to the B2 Bomber and F117 Nighthawk - used in "Executive Decision".

This was the crappiest crap i've seen...this week. Dudikoff is really an action star wannabe without any things to highlight... yeah, it's the same plot as in Executive Decision, but with a bigger hostage (not senator, but vicepresident) and an older stealth plane... i don't consider it as a remake of ED but a mere and plain copy... by the way, in the last scene, when the arm injured soldier makes the military salute to Dude, as he has his right arm injured he does it... with his left arm! isn't that forbidden? please Mr Dudikoff, stop making this duuuummmmmbbbb and boring stuff, we don't need you at all, i mean it