Flight of the Phoenix ignores the human drama to focus on cockamamie setbacks that are harder to swallow than the plane’s motor oil.

If I had seen this film before the original, I might have actually preferred it.

It's never more than ridiculous popcorn fun, but the fun is thin on the ground.

Competent, watchable remake that improves on the special effects and running time but loses the moral complexity and the character work of the original.

This new Phoenix makes too many mistakes, the biggest one being the mistake of confusing 'modernizing' with 'dumbing down.'

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...it's not tense enough, realistic enough, or exciting enough to lift it much beyond the ordinary.

Frankly, it's painful to watch such a strong cast struggle so desperately to hold the film together while it falls apart around them

Plenty of action is here in this exciting remake of the earlier classic.