The new action movie's finale sees Gerard Butler fight to protect his flight's passengers.
Gerard Butler is back for another ridiculous action movie in Jean-François Richet’s Plane, the first major action flick of the new year. If you’re looking for another fun, fairly predictable vehicle from Butler, Plane will definitely appeal to fans of Olympus Has Fallen, Greenland, Copshop, and Den of Thieves. However, Plane is definitely not the type of movie that you’d want to watch in the middle of a flight, as the propulsive action doesn’t let up until the very end.
Butler stars as Brodie Torrance, a Scottish commercial pilot who is based out of Hong Kong. Brodie’s wife passed away three years prior to the events of the film, so he is eager to finish his overseas flight so that he can spend New Year’s Eve with his daughter, Daniela (Haleigh Hekking). The list of passengers is relatively small, but moments before the flight is scheduled to begin, Brodie is informed that he will be transporting Louis Gaspare (Mike Colter), who is being extradited after being convicted of homicide. Brodie must attempt to keep the crew and passengers calm when they begin experiencing extreme weather conditions and face malfunctioning technology.
Why Does the Plane Crash?
As Brodie begins the flight, the plane heads into extreme turbulence that causes the vehicle to violently shake. While Brodie has his flight attendants tell the passengers to calm down and remain in their seats, chaos breaks out and a few passengers are killed (including the officer detaining Louis). Brodie is told that he must make a landing over the open water, but he manages to use his knowledge of weather patterns to successfully land it on an island.
With no way of communicating the situation to the airline’s command center, Brodie is forced to take the passengers off the plane before it heats up. He charts the area and realizes that the plane has landed in Jolo, an isolated area of the Philippines that is controlled by a fortified radical militia group. Fearing that little time is left, Brodie sets out with Louis to find a communications center.
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