January 2017 – The Science Fiction and Fantasy Community Blog

IMDB Description:

After Flight 42 travels through a storm they find themselves in France, 1940, during World war II.

The greatest battle that never happened! Based on true events!

That jacket cover makes a couple of bold assertions, and I fully expect it to live up to them.

This movie opens with the flight already in progress. Faran Tahir is captain William Strong. You might remember Tahir from such blockbusters as Iron-Man and Star Trek (2009) and such TV shows as Once Upon a Time and 12 Monkeys. What you won’t remember him from is Flight World War 2. Strong’s copilot is Daniel Prentice (Matias Ponce). They are flying International Airlines flight 42 from Washington D.C. to London. This airline wins the award for least imaginative fake airline name to ever appear in a movie. And of course there are some passengers and a flight crew, will they be relevant later? I hope not. This movie is called Flight World War 2, so I’m guessing somehow it is going to end up in the past. Best case scenario, the plane arrives over London and is shot down by flak cannons immediately.

Props to the movie, three minutes in and it brings us directly to a little thing I like to call, the inciting incident. The plane begins to experience turbulence, and the people on the ground warn the pilots of a sudden storm materializing out of nowhere. Ground control recommends flying around, but I guess that isn’t Strong’s style (ground control probably hates him almost as much as they hate Major “I love radio silence” Tom). Instead Strong decides flying into the vortex is the best idea. At this moment I experienced a terrible fear that this movie will be The Langoliers.

Dan on Jack’s Bad Movies: Flight World War 2 (2015): “Everyone saying they didn’t have this, they didn’t have that in 1940, but if you listen carefully in the movie,…” Nov 19, 23:54

Sue on Jack’s Bad Movies: Flight World War 2 (2015): “I became strangely engaged with this movie once I got used to the b-ness of it, glad no one died…” Oct 28, 06:31

John evans on Jack’s Bad Movies: Flight World War 2 (2015): “Only a handful of passengers for such a large passenger plane and all at the front conveniently by the cockpit.…” Oct 19, 00:25

Tim on Jack’s Bad Movies: Highlander II: The Quickening: “Great summary. Only one thing I’d disagree with – there are cops in the city as well. A cop-car gets…” Oct 5, 17:40

Andrew Holmes on Jack’s Bad Movies: Flight World War 2 (2015): “I think the old Nigel was the young Nigels son. The name on the cover of his book was Nigel…” Jul 6, 12:43

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