Flight of the Phoenix
On a flight over the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. A group of survivors stranded in the desert with no hope of rescue build a new plane out of parts from their old one in hopes of flying back to civilization.
14 August 1971, Missoula, Montana, USA
30 December 1978, Watts, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 November 1973, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2 June 1943, Turkey
18 August 1971, Michoacan, Mexico
9 April 1954, Houston, Texas, USA
17 December 1974, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 June 1959, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
30 December 1938, Manchester, England, UK
1959
13 December 1969, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
19 July 1982, San Antonio, Texas, USA
12 May 1965, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
16 December 1967, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
1969, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
September 22, 2006
This is one flight that never quite gets off the ground.
December 21, 2004
By film's end the adventure appears less a matter of base survival than a beach barbecue gone slightly sour.
December 17, 2004
This time out, there's not much out there to look at besides sand, and even it doesn't look real.
June 20, 2005
Entertaining, but brainless, popcorn fun.
December 24, 2010
Exciting (but intense) adventure for older kids.
December 23, 2004
In the end, it may be that man against sand isn't as thrilling as it was back in the day.
December 20, 2004
The wonderful character actors in the original ... are succeeded by a fairly anonymous bunch.
April 18, 2009
Remake of Robert Aldrich's revered 1965 classic would be 15% better if not for its abysmal use of pop music, and 100% better if Aldrich's son William had never thought to ride on his father's coattails by producing it in the first place.
March 07, 2005
If I had seen this film before the original, I might have actually preferred it.
December 17, 2004
This is high-carb filmmaking at its finest.
April 13, 2005
Flight of the Phoenix ignores the human drama to focus on cockamamie setbacks that are harder to swallow than the plane's motor oil.
December 20, 2004
Other than Dennis Quaid, none of these characters leaves so much as a footprint in the sand. We don't know them. We don't care about them.
