Joe must have needed money for a new car or something.....this by far was the worst movie I ever watched....acting was terrible, writing was so bad.....technical plot was joke.....the child actor was so bad.......the control tower scenes were a Joke....The plane landing without flaps would have been coming in around 3-400 mph......there would have been a ball of fire.......god was this bad. How this got 3 1/2 starts is any body's guess......On top of everything else....a 727 only has three engines.....most of the movie showed a 707.....the producer and director ought to be shot.....who was the technical adviser.....he must fly Cesna 150's......other blooper was the only plane that could have made the transfer is a C-130 with rear cargo door....and the aircraft pictured in the movie didn't resemble it at all......Geez my intelligence has been so insulted.

This kind of movies was OK in the 70s and early 80s. I wonder how anyone can believe the story was even remotely possible??? The amount of stereotypes and phrases/ characters used in similar films was more than any person can stand. I watched it on TV and started to hate myself for being so silly to waste 2 hours of my time watching it (instead of writing my dissertation). The only "convincing" character was the fat man (who stayed unconscious all the time and ... looked typically American:-) Apart from that, crap at its best. Wash the dishes, arrange the books you have or walk a neighbour's dog instead of watching it. You have been warned.

I work nights, so my nights off are filled with bad movies and infomercials at 3am. Airspeed was actually kind of fun in a "Mystery Science Theater 3000" sort of way. I never expect depth and find new ways to amuse myself at the absurdity. This movie is a stereotype, as mentioned in the other reviews. I won't rehash. That being said, most movies expect you to suspend disbelief for a little bit in order to enjoy the flick. I couldn't get past the fact that at 20-30,000 feet above the earth, the temperature of the air is beyond normal "cold" and a big hole in the plane would depressurise the cabin, sucking everything out into the big blue yonder. At skydiving height, yes, you can do neat heroic things like run a guy wire from one plane to the other and save lives. You can peek outside the back of a low flying aircraft like in the old war movies. Not on a jet. Sorry folks, it's not going to happen. Everybody would turn blue and die. Even the cute little girl who almost fell through the hole, lost a shoe to the great beyond, but managed to push herself away so she could get up and move about the aircraft. If it COULD be done, I do believe there are people insanely heroic enough to jump across on a tether and save the day...but not on this planet. Aside from that...one of the better flicks I've seen. I'd rate it up there with the USA Network movie called "Class Warfare". I was half asleep and missed seeing the contrived ending to that movie 10 minutes into it. I like it when movies can trip me up like that.

Anyfilm that bears the unfortunate status of being able to make a seven year old guess the ending should be burned. That is why I am so mistified as too why this balding slice of turgid nonsense is still being sold in video shops. I sat down with my dad and my brother about five years ago, I was twelve and my brother was seven. they spent the main bulk of the film trying to figure out how to put a hole in the side of the plane so that they could get the girl out or something(I can't remember exactly) It took a while for someone to already realise that the reason that the plane was in trouble oin the first place was that there was a hole in the plane. The traffic controller then said to the dad( who pointed out the obvious) Now I know why you're the million dollar man. In that case we should all be billionaires! "You have too destroy the auto pilot" "But how" "It's quite complicated I will give you instructions" (About twenty minutes later) "Wait I have an idea"(smashes it with a base ball bat.WELL DUH!!!!!!!!! The worst action thriller(if you can call it that) that I have ever seen