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| ![Flight of the Phoenix [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H7YQZFSQL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: John Moore
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Tyrese Gibson, Miranda Otto, Hugh Laurie
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  115 reviews
Sales Rank: 18310
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Subtitled
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 113
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FOXBR2240114
UPC: 024543401124
EAN: 0024543401124
ASIN: B000JSI7AS
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: December 5, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 Trash,....rubbish ...what more can be said... December 25, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Save your money...or better still buy the original 1965 version thats great!!
This is a case of the re-make being by far the worse of the two. The new film has all the hallmarks of a film to please the masses... its politically correct.... its got people with attitude...and don't try to take on the Americans...cause they will kick your a**...Appalling rubbish and quite painful to watch. And if you know anything about aviation your going to laugh at how bad it is...
Quaid - 3 stars; Stewart - 4; Book - 5 August 3, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While I had a great time in the theater watching the Quaid version of Flight of the Phoenix (I'm a sucker for Quaid & it was a joy to see Hugh Laurie), this movie is much more fragmented and has less character development than the Jimmy Stewart version.
Both movies, however, pale in comparison to the book by Elleston Trevor. Darker and more intense than the movies, the first sentence sets the tone: "The wind had flung the sand thirty thousand feet into the sky above the desert in a blinding cloud from the Niger to the Nile, and somewhere in it was the airplane." Even if you're reading this book in the middle of the winter or in a torrential downpour of rain, by the time you're half way through it you'll be parched and on the edge of your seat. Plan to go through several bottles of water reading it.
Originally released in 1964, the book was reissued in 2004 in mass market paperback.
Movie is good, DVD not so much August 1, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am not going to talk much about the movie. For the most part I am betting that 90% of the people that read this review already have seen the movie and are wondering if they should add the DVD to their collection. I will just make one note to the commentary featured for the film (the rest of the DVD is what you'd expect).
The director's commentary is supposed to improve the film experience and give insight into either how the film was made or how the story was told or something interesting. The commentary on this DVD has to be some of the worst commentary ever recorded. I can't listen to the Director and his Producers ramble on and on amongst themselves as if they are in a loud, noisy bar. They aren't making any sense, there is no order or purpose to what they are saying. They can't speak in full sentences and they interrupt each other constantly. I literally had to turn off the commentary in order to enjoy the movie. Once it was off, it was an awesome movie.
I wish I had turned it back on during my favorite scene in the movie that takes place at dawn when they encounter the roving band of smugglers or whatever. The background music is perfect (Angel by Massive Attack) and the lighting is perfect. But the commentary was so bad 40 minutes into the film that I could not take it any longer. So just beware about that. Still a great transfer to DVD and if you spent money on a home theater system... this movie will sound great.
 Great extras, mediocre film June 17, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Sadly, Flight of the Phoenix is just another duff remake. Despite massive advances in special effects and a moderately exciting last two minutes, this feels even longer than Robert Aldrich's much longer original, and the reason is pretty elementary: lack of characterisation and drama. Where Aldrich typically set his flawed protagonists at each others throats in a hostile environment that was driving them mad and dealt with the way the pilot who crashes off-course in the desert turns his guilt into anger at his passengers, this is mostly feel-good stuff, full of life lessons, spiritual slogans and far too much high fiving for any self respecting survival drama - at one point they even get down and boogie. A modicum of drama is thrown in at the last minute in the wake of the key revelation about the new plane's designer, but it's so little and so late that it totters on the edge of laughable. As a result, some good actors and Giovanni Ribisi (horribly overacting the old Hardy Kruger part minus the Nazi undertones) are stranded by committee filmmaking rather than the elements and poor piloting.
Strangely, for such a bland film, the making of documentary is surprisingly gloves off, showing director John Moore in full effing and blinding mode as he throws several fits (and he's not the only one). At least one of the extended scenes (involving a biplane) was good enough to be in the feature, and the commentary throws up the odd interesting fact amid the mutual back slapping. The result is a modest extras package that easily outshines the film.
Large mediocre with cheese March 31, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Usually, movies with actors as good as those in Flight of the Phoenix guarantee that the movie will be good. Not so here. The movie is basically sound but it fails to provide real suspense. F-bombs and s-words are dropped like loose change, and there is slight innuendo. The ONLY bright spot is the acting, which cannot be faulted.
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