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Airborne

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3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

First of all, it's really hard to get past Steve Guttenberg being a "tough" guy. He does a good job trying. I guess I just kept expecting him to put on his big smile and crack a joke. As for Sean Bean, the reason why I bought the DVD, he pops in occassionally to shoot at whomever. Not nearly enough of him for me. There is a little twist, if you can't guess it by 1/3 of the way through. I guess overall, it's an okay movie. But, if it's Sean Bean that you're looking for, keep looking.

For those who were looking for the movie Airborne with the previously listed people...I took a chance on this one and ordered it as I was looking for it too. Nope this is not it.
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I don't think this is the movie with Seth Green because the description says that this movie is rated R, and the movie you are looking for is rated PG. I'm still waiting for Airborne with Seth Green to be released in DVD format.

Which Airborne movie is this it has no image or description except 1998. The Airborne with Seth Green came out in 1994 but they could have just released the DVD in 1998 so can someone please tell me if this is the Airborne with Jack Black, Shane McDermott, and Seth Green?

Steve Guttenberg arrives in this strangely inept film. He has a buff body, a linear scar on his face, and constipation..oops, maybe it just seemed that way. Going for the Bruce Willis/Clint Eastwood silent type of hero, Steve mumbles his lines and tries to show all of his emotions with grunts and whispers. He is not an action hero, but he tries, maybe too hard.
Seems there's this special ops force called Mach I, in which he, Colm Feore (a good actor wasted), Torri Higginson (who does okay). His boss is played by the ubiquitous bad guy, Kim Coates, who smokes a cigar like it were a popsicle. There's this virus that the special ops team rescued, but now it's been stolen again by Sean Bean (who has little screen time so don't expect too much from him). Little tension is generated, and although it's not a great movie, it manages to keep you guessing for a while.
A rental when something new has come out and you can't find anything else.

I really hated this film. I really should known have better. When I ordered it, I thought it will probably be bad. So it was my fault. I would have rented but it is so bad it doesn't seem to be available for rental in Minneapolis. The only reason I wanted to see it is that I am a devoted fan of Sean Bean. There is entirely too little of him in the film. The screenplay seems not so much to have been written as to have happened. Steve Guttenberg's performance is so strange that either he had indigestion through the entire time the film was shot or the director is out to get him. I suspect the later. Steve Guttenberg is a pretty good actor usually, but he is woefully miscast is this truly poor film. It wasn't even funny as some really bad films are.

This is a really bad movie. Steve Guttenberg is a good comedic actor but does not appear to know how to play a serious role. He wears a tortured look on his face even before things go awry. The plot is routine and predictable. Sean Bean is the only bright spot as a bad guy but is not in the movie long enough to save it. Don't waste your time.

I love most movies and I'm a big fan of Sean Bean so I thought that I would at least LIKE this movie. Also, I'm Canadian and this is a mostly-Canadian movie so I was prepared to cut it some serious slack. Nothing could have prepared me for the garbage that is "Airborne". Steve Guttenberg as an action hero? Give me a break. The acting throughout the movie was so bad I am going to have trouble sleeping tonight. I now have only two wishes in my life.

1. I hope that you never have to sit through this movie.
2. I wish I could get those 6 hours back. Oh wait, the movie's under 2 hours - it only seemed like 6 hours...

Don't watch this.

This is quite possibly the worst film I have ever seen. It doesn't even have the virtue of self-mockery. What a waste of Colm Feore and Sean Bean....

I expected this to be bad; thank goodness I borrowed it for free from the library. But I never imagined that a movie could be as bad as this (especially with such good actors as Sean Bean and Colm Feore).

But that brings me to the first biggest flaw in this disaster of a movie: Steve Guttenberg as an action hero. WHAT THE HECK IS HE DOING HERE?!!! He's fine and dandy in a comedy, but in an action movie, he tries too hard to be like Tom Cruise from the Mission Impossible movies. His lines are muttered with subtle intensity that just doesn't sound right. Lines like "I don't wanna see him!" "You guys can't keep track of a video tape," and "I still don't like you, Murdoch" made me laugh for most of the movie. They weren't badly written; they just sounded funny coming from Guttenberg.

The other actors and actresses don't seem to have the same problem; they all perform adequately.

The rest of the movie is still terrible. Special agents retrieving a bioweapon; it's a story that's been done before many times. But everything about this movie makes the other stories (like MI:2) look like LOTR material. It's one thing for a movie to have impossible-looking effects or stunts, but Airborne has garbage in it that would never happen in real life but still takes itself too seriously.

For example, in the first twenty minutes, agents have to blow the side of an airplane open (while in the air) and infiltrate its interior. So they do that...and inside the airplane, it's perfectly still. I'm pretty sure that, when you breach the hull of a plane, the air inside the cabin will be sucked out! But the guy strolls into the cabin (which looks distinctly like an underdressed sound stage) and picks up a suitcase on the floor. What the heck?!!! The deadly virus was just lying on the floor?!!! And why didn't the air suck it out of the airplane?!!!

Secondly, I don't think a CD can take control of a car and send it crashing into a harbor. Even if it is a GPS disc or whatever, the curcuits in a CD player should be independent to the circuits driving the car (especially in 1997, when this movie came out). So what the heck?!!!!!

Also, I gotta love the way, at the end, how the deadly virus rolls off of the speeding airplane, lands on the hood of the car, and rolls around some more. The way this whole sequence was filmed was an obvious attempt to drag out the suspense. But it's still stupid.

Finally, in the end, the canister they were all chasing around turned out to be filled with harmless gel-filled marbles. WHAT THE HECK?!!!!!! All of this was just a decoy?!! What was the darn point?!!!

The rest of the movie was boring. There are only two good things about this film: the acting of Sean Bean and Colm Feore, and the photography. Everything else is terrible. I wouldn't watch it again even if it was the last movie on Earth. If you want something similar but worthwhile, watch either a Mission Impossible, James Bond, or Jack Ryan movie.