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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 63335
Released: March 1, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
An action-adventure in which a group of air crash survivors - cast-offs from society who will never be missed - are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no hope of rescue. As they attempt to build a new plane from the wreckage of the old one, in hopes of flying back to civilization, they experience a rebirth of their own.
Description of Flight of the Phoenix (Full Screen Edition):
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
Flight of the Phoenix (Full Screen Edition) Reviews:
A well done remake of a classic film 
2009-11-09 - An oil crew and a transport aircraft come together with the Gobi desert
to make a film about survival against the odds.
A model air plane designer is the unlikely hero of this drama
with a pilot who has lost hope.
Using the tools at hand without water and despair eating at their souls,
they work together as an unlikely team to build a single hull
aircraft that takes them out of the desert.
I liked the film and thought it inspiring even if is is a remake
of a classic 60's film with James Stewart.
Bad writing, bad directing, bad acting...nice special effects 
2009-10-31 - They must have hired a seven-year-old to write this script, because any eight-year-old can google "Gobi Desert" and discover that the Mongolian desert is cold. The average temperature in July is 65 degrees F, which means the survivors of the plane crash would have frozen at night. Although there are a few sand dunes, most of the Mongolian desert is rough, hard-packed terrain. Heat, sweat, sand storms? I don't think so.
If the writers want us to suspend disbelief, we can do that. After all, some of us play "quidditch." We can even believe that Hugh Laurie willingly consented to act in this film. (Although it is my personal opinion that they were holding his children hostage.) We can believe that the plane came equipped with an arc welder--which only a chef can use--and a generator, that Inner Mongolia is the perfect route for bloodthirsty arms dealers--after all, it connects China with...Mongolia. And we know for a fact that model plane makers are all psychotic megalomaniacs. But how can anybody possibly expect us to sit through: "We're not garbage; we're people. We have families. We have lives. Let's get the hell outta here. Let's go home." Words of inspiration, indeed. (Right up there with "A man needs love.") Corny, cheesy, painful...pick your adjective.
I've heard this movie is a remake, so I'll take it on faith that the original Flight of the Phoenix was better. It could not possibly have been worse.
Pay no attention to the original, and this is pretty good. 
2009-05-23 - What's the problem with this version of Flight of the Phoenix? It can't be the original with James Stewart. And that's okay. The problem comes in when everyone tries to compare this version with the original. Quite frankly, nothing can compare with the original, the acting is just too good to be surpassed.
So I suggest not comparing to the original, and judging this Flight of the Phoenix on its own grounds. If you do, it's actually a pretty fun, entertaining film. Dennis Quaid plays Dennis Quaid, as usual, and does a good job. Miranda Otto makes things interesting. Giovanni Ribisi as the designer is also quite good.
I give it 4 stars.
The Flight of the Phoenix 
2009-03-22 - This is one of the best made films I ever saw. The acting was perfect
especially Dennis Quaid and GiovanniRabisi. The photograpy was magnificent. Story line was excellent. How can this only get three stars??? Considering the nothing but stupid action films that are being released now, it shows there are still words in a movie instead of beastly plastic figurines. I highly recommend this film.Saw this in blu-ray. If you take the time to listen to the making of the film by the men who actually took the initiative to really care about quality, it would be a five star all the way! Kathleen Locke
Entertaining movie with great Audio and Picture quality
2009-03-10 - This is a decent movie. It entertains with action, comedy, & drama and is never really boring.
The Audio quality and Picture quality truly make this movie a fun experience. From a technical standpoint it's superb.
