Kramer as Mr. Robert Butler. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Ryan Weaver romances beautiful women before he kills them. Ryan is arrested, convicted, and is part of a Christmas Eve transfer of prisoners on a transcontinental commercial flight.
Other airlines at JFK may have holiday passengers waiting on stand-by, but this jumbo jet takes off with a lot of empty seats. Ryan and another prisoner overpower and kill their guards. The few civilian passengers are herded into a "pantry" on the plane and are not seen again until the end of the movie. Ryan eliminates the other prisoners and all the crew members except Teri Halloran.
The remainder of the movie follows a "cat-and-mouse" game between Ryan and Teri on the Fear is in the air. Rated R for terror, strong violence and language.
Did you know Edit. Trivia Despite being a box-office failure when released theatrically, two direct-to-video sequels were made. This was due to the movie being one of the most rented home videos of Goofs When the pressure hull is breached, the copilot declares an emergency and requests permission to descend immediately, but Air Traffic Control says to maintain altitude due to traffic below.
What should happen is that he starts the emergency descent first, then tells ATC what he's doing, and they immediately divert the other traffic to give him priority. Quotes Betty : I dated a criminal once. User reviews 97 Review. Top review. I would have considered this movie mediocre, if it hadn't been for a few factual errors and bizarre plot ideas. After the initial action, it's one psycho against one heroine and nothing much happens apart from the plane shaking around as it flies through a storm which swings the upper hand from one side to another.
Unfortunately neither side manages to completely finish off the other quickly. The background story of the criminal's case and "history" with a certain detective is brought out a couple of times, but unsatisfactorily and just confused me. Like "Dead Calm" but much worse. Details Edit.
Release date January 10, United States. United States. Rysher Entertainment. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 40 minutes. Related news. Mar 12 Slash Film. Feb 1 Den of Geek. The other Lauren Holly wages a heroic fight after both pilots are killed.
It's up to her to fend off the madman and somehow land the big plane. Frankly, I wish the killer had strangled her and left the more likable Hicks to land the plane. It's on a scale of 1 to 6!
The storm causes all of the lights inside the plane to flash on and off, including the Christmas lights. That leads to extended sequences in which the attendant and the madman crawl around the aisles in darkness illuminated by lightning bolts--and then there's the big moment when the plane flies upside down and they get to crawl on the ceiling. On the ground, events are monitored in the Los Angeles control tower.
The pilot of another Ben Cross talks the brave attendant through the landing procedure, while a stern FBI agent argues that the plane should be shot down by the Air Force before it crashes in an inhabited area. Eventually, he orders a fighter plane to fire--although by then, the is already over Los Angeles and looks as if it would crash more or less into Disneyland. There are more questions. Like, if a sheers off the roof of a high-rise restaurant, wouldn't that cause it to crash?
Like, if a plows through an outdoor billboard, wouldn't that cause it to crash? Like, if it sweeps all the cars off the roof of a parking garage, wouldn't that cause it to crash? Like, if it gets a truck caught in its landing gear, what would happen then? After Lauren Holly outsmarts and outfights the berserk killer and pilots the plane through a Level 6 storm, the FBI guy still doubts she can land it.
Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Ray Liotta as Ryan Weaver. Lauren Holly as Teri Halloran. Brendan Gleeson as Stubbs.
Hector Elizondo as Detective Aldo Hines. Catherine Hicks as Maggie. Taper Rachel Ticotin as Rachel. Reviews Turbulence. Roger Ebert January 10, Now streaming on:.
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