Plane (2023)
Directed by Jean-François Richet
After a heroic job of successfully landing his storm-damaged aircraft in a war zone, a fearless pilot finds himself between the agendas of multiple militias planning to take the plane and its passengers hostage.
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“Plane” is a too-generic title for what’s actually a pretty good little movie, combining with the ad campaign to convey a sense the film is more “Rambo”-like than it is.
…spectacle that finds a couple of jacked-up English-speaking everymen forced to kill their way out of a sweltering foreign jungle full of indigenous militants, and climaxes with the bad guys loading the shoulder-mounted rocket-launchers that Southeast Asian henchmen always keep on hand in case Sylvester Stallone ever decides to reboot “Rambo” again.
An extended mano a mano between Butler and a goon, filmed in a single unbroken take, is a highlight of the film, and reminiscent of the final scuffle between Leonardo Dicaprio and Tom Hardy in The Revenant.
Plane plays out like a fusion of Airport (the disaster-in-the-sky franchise that was popular during the 1970s and was lampooned by Airport in 1980) and Rambo (insofar as that was about a bloody jungle rescue).