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As superfluous remakes go, Flight of the Phoenix could've been better, and could've been worse. It's a passable popcorn adventure, especially for those unfamiliar with the 1965 original, which starred James Stewart, made headlines for the crash-landing death of stunt-pilot Paul Mantz, and now stands as a minor classic of its era. This flashy remake stars Dennis Quaid in Stewart's role, adds a woman to the list of plane-crash survivors, and showcases Giovanni Ribisi, who gives a cleverly eccentric performance as the model-airplane designer who proposes to rebuild a crashed cargo plane into a single-engine escape from certai
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As superfluous remakes go, Flight of the Phoenix could've been better, and could've been worse. It's a passable popcorn adventure, especially for those unfamiliar with the 1965 original, which starred James Stewart, made headlines for the crash-landing death of stunt-pilot Paul Mantz, and now stands as a minor classic of its era. This flashy remake stars Dennis Quaid in Stewart's role, adds a woman to the list of plane-crash survivors, and showcases Giovanni Ribisi, who gives a cleverly eccentric performance as the model-airplane designer who proposes to rebuild a crashed cargo plane into a single-engine escape from certain death in the remote Gobi desert. Both films are essentially identical, but this remake is somehow less believable (due to shortcuts in a haphazardly written screenplay) and much more spectacular, owing to the advantage of impressive special effects. Otherwise it's a routine dose of survivalist entertainment from the director of Behind Enemy Lines, never convincing enough to be genuinely compelling, but certainly never boring. --Jeff Shannon
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Manufacturer: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release date: 5 December 2006
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0024543401124 UPC: 024543401124
Tags: Hugh Laurie (1), Jim Lau (1), Derek Barton (1), Vernon Lehmann (1), Kee-yick Cheng (1), Yi-ding Wang (1), Bob Brown (1), Martin Hindy (1), Paul Ditchfield (1), Kevork Malikyan (1), Scott Michael Campbell (1), Sticky Fingaz (1), Tony Curran (1), Anthony Brandon Wong (1), Jacob Vargas (1), Drama (1), Jared Padalecki (1), Miranda Otto (1), Giovanni Ribisi (1), PG-13 (1)
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