Awesome Movie

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Realism is thrown out of the window in favour of maximum excitement in this cheap rip-off of films like CON AIR, except this time the menace comes from Ray Liotta as a manic serial killer who just won't stay dead. Okay, so it's not good, but Liotta gives a nicely over the top performance which lifts this film above the standards it could otherwise have fallen to.On the downside, the film is full of poor CGI animation which shows the plane flying. This is blatantly unrealistic and the film loses a lot of impact in this way, but that's what a tight budget can do for a film, I guess. Also, there are lots of things which happen which just wouldn't be possible in real life, like a jumbo jet flying upside down, or the plane flying through the top story of a building and yet having no signs of visible damage, let alone avoiding crashing.As the film's heroine, Lauren Holly is passable, thankfully she doesn't have to scream too much, although she does do some pretty stupid things in the film like go and strap herself in a chair when she should be trying to land the plane. Liotta is by far the best thing in this film, I've been a fan of overacting for a while now and nobody is more intense and insane than this guy; the impact is better because at first he's a nice, pleasant and kind person. British actor Ben Cross, his career on the skids, turns up as a helpful commander, while Hector Elizondo is wasted as a detective hot on Liotta's trail.Although passing as an action film, there are plenty of horror elements, such as loads of bodies falling out of shelves (think HALLOWEEN) and sitting in chairs. At the end, the film becomes DEAD CALM in the air, with the viewer repeatedly thinking that Liotta is dead, only for him to come back for another shock. My only complaint with this is that Liotta has a rather poor death scene, and is killed a bit too easily. I would have liked to see him get burnt or something and come back for a final attack, it would have been in the spirit of the thing, but that's just me. If you're a fan of bad films then TURBULENCE may just be the absurdity you're looking for.

Turbulence is such as embarrassingly dumb movie, the actors must of surely had laughing fits in between. This is another half baked product, another one of these plane hijack movies, this bad review of it, made it made me want to go and see it. It's almost deserves it's place in the comedy section of the video store. Cool, handsome, smooth talking serial killer, Ryan Weaver (Ray Liotta) hamming it up here, boards a plane with another bad dude, and their two escorting officers. Liotta can be scary and he definitely has his moments here. Weaver has killed a few woman, the last one nearly losing her life too, when an obsessive detective (Hector Elizondo) and his team stepped in and saved her. Liotta as you can guess, escapes as does the other prisoner and turns this plane ride into bedlam. Lauren Holly, an innocent stewardess becomes the hero of the film, as all the pilots, most of stewardess's and some passengers who should of behaved, are all deceased. All the rest of the passengers are in the top deck, Liotta and Holly are left alone, where idle chat and some too close for comfort moments, take place. At least we are learning a bit about the killer. I like that intense scene between Liotta and another stewardess, who he childs for picking on Holly, that is before he kills her in a quite gruesome way too.I think he raped her also. There's an uglyness in Turbulence, that a lot of other plane hijack movies are void of, in terms of violence, and the loss of life, that's taken away so cheaply here. For Liotta fans, Turbulence will make your night, but this film just has a lot of incredulous moments. I can't imagine how scared I'd be if the plane did a 360. Just a good laugh/action romp, that may put you off planes for good. Why Ben Cross as one of the control tower pilots, who talks Holly through a safe landing, did this, is beyond me.

This sucker was just on HBO (4am) and I read these just before watching it, which made me wanna watch it even more. Nuked some popcorn.... 1) As a pilot myself, I can tell ya a REAL aviator doesn't need to sit at the controls to instruct a rookie how to land a plane using a Navcom system. So.... they obviously didn't even take the time to chat with a pilot to begin with, nor get a technical consultant. Then she wanders off with him after, WHY: cause he 'saved' her, has an English accent or just because he's got an umbrella? Little trampy stewardess.2) Do they really hang all kinds of CRAP in an airplane for Xmas? With lights, and roping all lit up, causing a fire hazard? I doubt it, but I've never flown home for a holiday so don't know. That's "hard up" Xmas marketing if I've ever seen it.3) If you intend to die and take a tight arsed/perky breasted little "it's flight attendant" blond airhead with you... wouldn't you just PLOW her chops off rather than asking all kinds of dumb Q's? The whole conversation about whether she likes sex or not is senseless: He kills a bunch of people and wants to DIE, but asks her if she LIKES SEX instead of just raping her? Ray has no credibility with me for even accepting the part.4) On the lighter side, I did get a kick outta the killing of an "I think it's a Ford" Explorer. 5) The confused Asians in the karaoke bar: funny! They've destroyed our economy, F them! 6) Obviously, some racist broads were involved in the screen writing here: "Stewardess" is politically incorrect, but the jab at Asian Karaoke singers isn't? Buncha hypocrites! 7) The inverted flight was amusing. But... no way in HELL a plane would either get into that orientation OR right itself out of it! Well, if you can catch it on HBO or D/L it: It's a funny POS! Just as goofy as Snakes on a Plane, which actually was pretty funny!

Sure, it's not the best movie in the world, but for action, suspense and a Lauren Holly/Ray Liotta combo, it's pretty darned good. I watched this on a lazy Saturday morning and ended up nearly hyperventilating by the time it was over, not to mention having enough excess adrenalin to turn the lazy morning into a more productive one. One viewer commented that this was the best worse movie they'd seen. I wouldn't go so far as saying it is in the 'worse' category, because it had a lot of good qualities. There was a long list of favorite character actors, enough suspense to keep you interested, great performances by Holly and Liotta (two of my favorite Soap turned Hollywood actors), one of everyone's 'worst nightmares come true', and...none of it was spoiled by a romantic element often inserted in a good heart stopper action movie.Kudos to Ms. Holly on her performance during the last fight scene. By this point, I was having to remember this was a movie, not live action. I was asking myself what I would do and how I would be feeling in a similar situation. That was the time when I realized I was hyperventilating and had to make myself take a breath. This is definitely a movie that I am glad I didn't watch just before bedtime. I would have not slept from the charge this movie gave the nervous system.