Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Just so...so bad

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)1/2 (out of 4)An American company buys a Concorde jet and they plan on making the first flight to Paris and then to Russia. The only problem is that a group of people has some secrets and they decide to try and bring down the plane, which causes Capt. Joe Patroni (George Kennedy) to become a STAR WARS pilot.THE CONCORDE... AIRPORT '79 would bring the franchise to a crashing halt. Even before it hit theaters the film pretty much became known as a bomb and once the public got to it the film was over. The incredibly awful reviews led to a really bad box office total and that was the end of the series. Since then the film has become known as one of the worst ever made and rightfully so.The most shocking thing about this movie is the fact that someone read the screenplay and gave money for it to be filmed. I guess there's a chance that the studio thought people would watch anything with the AIRPORT title but the film is certainly one of the dumbest that you'll ever see. I said STAR WARS earlier because some of the action scenes appear to be wanting to be like that George Lucas film.Some of the action scenes are embarrassingly bad including the ones where the plane comes under attack by some missiles. Seeing the plane fight off these missiles was just so bad that you couldn't help wonder what the filmmakers were doing. Even worse is the fact that the direction is so poor that there's never any suspense during any of the scenes and even dumber is how the screenplay has all sorts of things going wrong with the plane.The lack of any suspense is what really kills the film and makes its long running time seem even longer. The only nice thing I could say about the picture is that it at least let Kennedy upgrade to the lead role but then again he's no match for Dean Martin, Charlton Heston or Jack Lemmon. Kennedy is at least good here and you've got a wide range of other notable stars who show up. Can you believe there are three Oscar-winners in this mess?THE CONCORDE... AIRPORT '79 is an awful picture but I guess we should all be grateful that it was so bad since we did get AIRPLANE! because of it.

The Airport series comes to a close with this final entry, a movie so awful that it can only be enjoyed as an unintentional comedy. The plot this time has pilots Alain Delon and George Kennedy trying to land a Concorde jet airliner safely while avoiding bad guy Robert Wagner's comical attempts to destroy it by . If you've seen the other films in the series, you will notice George Kennedy's character, Joe Patroni, has a different job in each one. This is the first time in the series he was shown to be a pilot. But it's our good luck that the movie didn't care about continuity because if there's no Patroni in that cockpit, this wouldn't be the gem that it is. Many of the movie's most hilarious scenes and lines belong to Patroni. His evasive maneuvers flying the Concorde and the flare gun scene in particular are the stuff of legend. Even him getting laid turns into comedy gold. Frenchie Alain Delon plays well off of Kennedy. Robert Wagner makes for a woefully inept villain.. The rest of the Love Boat-style cast includes Susan Blakely, Eddie Albert, Sylvia Kristel, David Warner, Mercedes McCambridge, Jimmie Walker, John Davidson, Cicely Tyson, and freaking Charo! What a lineup for a series that once had former A-listers like Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston, Jack Lemmon, and Jimmy Stewart. It's not the best Airport movie but it is a lot of fun. The special effects are embarrassingly poor. It's an absolutely ridiculous and pathetic film when taken seriously and judged on its legitimate merits. But if you like movies that fail so spectacularly you can't take your eyes off the screen, this is for you. It's one of the great "so bad it's good" movies and I recommend anyone who enjoys those to give this a shot.

The movie opens with a passenger balloon floating near the runway and almost colliding with a Concorde landing. Kevin Harrison (Robert Wagner) is a corrupt arms dealer. TV reporter Maggie Whelan (Susan Blakely) is his girlfriend but she receives documents proving that he sold weapons to the enemy. She is going on the inaugural Concorde flight from D.C. to Paris and then to Moscow. She plans on revealing the documents on her report from Moscow but Harrison intends to bring the Concorde down.The whole thing is pretty stupid. The weapons manufacturer story is pretty stupid. The flying sequences are ridiculously bad. Putting aside the bad special effects, the action is mostly stupid. Maggie has to be one of the stupidest reporter character ever. Either that or this puts female reporters back 20 years. The dialog is tiresome. George Kennedy is workmanlike in this otherwise bad B-movie but then he also does a loop with the Concorde and fires a flare out the window. The movie should have ended after an hour when they land in Paris. The movie keeps going and the plane takes off again. Whatever B-movie goodness left is all gone by the end. There is one good stunt as a guy running across the runway is almost clipped by the Concorde taking off. That is probably the one and only good thing about this movie.

Ordered the complete AIRPORT movie set recently. Always been a fan of the Airport series. First three, Airport (70), '75, '77, I've seen numerous times and always liked all three. For some reason I've never seen Airport '79 though. Ladies and gentleman, this has to be the all time hokeyest movie I have ever seen in my 50 years of life! Bad acting. Bad writing. Bad plot. Stupid plot. Bad special affects, even for 1979. Just bad everything. Honestly, after the first 15-20 minutes I was ready to turn it off. I was like, when is this movie going to get going. I cannot believe all the well known actors in this movie actually consented to being apart of this joke of a movie. I don't think there is one movie I have ever not said you have to see at least once until I viewed this one. I would NEVER recommend this movie to anyone even as a joke and I will never watch it again.