First, Sara knows she put everyone at risk. Really? Sara put everyone in this situation. Then fingers and nastiness made towards and blame on Bruce. Sara acted like she did know things and then didn't. Everyone fighting and arguing. WTH. Acting like children up in the air? What were the writers thinking? Then throw in the monster because of Bruce? Where did that come from? Bruce manifested it? All over the place not really cutting it.

The initial tableau: The film opens to a short vignette about the doomed flight of a light airplane. Then we jump shift to the present. Five twenty-somethings gather to fly to a concert. Sara is the pilot; Bruce sits in front next to her. Mel films with her hand-held in the back, next to the jock/thug Sal, who steals Bruce's comic book. Cory is also in the back as the fifth wheel. Sara is a bit light on experience, but things seem to be going well.Delineation of conflicts: Rough weather comes up, and Sara is not rated for instrument flying. Two other problems arise: their total weight is too high to get above the clouds, and Sara forgot to assure that the fuel tanks were full before leaving. There is a screw loose, which means an elevator fin does not respond to control. Bruce's childhood trauma about flying surfaces; this involves Sara in a strong way. Those are not the only problems; the film is qualified as a horror film for some solid reasons. They are not alone in the storm, or are they?Cinematography: 7/10 Consistently saturated with teal, even during the long dark sections of the film. The point of this not clear. Framing and focus were usually fine.Sound: 9/10 I had no problems hearing dialog, and the background music was a plus.Acting: 5/10 Better than I expected.Screenplay: 4/10 There's a good 15 minutes of story here. Hijacking the end story of Forbidden Planet (1956) was discouraging, though. The plus four was for the ending, which I rather liked.

A bunch of stoopid unappealing young kids up in a flimsy airplane, where they do not belong. One idiot even brought his cheap guitar along in the tiny plane -- can you imagine! The girl flying the plane seems to have a nasal/breathing problem, as her mouth is constantly open;maybe she thinks that's sexy. Nope, it sure ain't! All of these kids need some serious acting lessons, and even then I'd give them only a 5%chance of making it at best. Dreadful film with nothing to recommend it. Do something else instead of wasting time on this. Sleeping would be better!! WHO are the people financing such garbage? Do they really think they have a successful movie on their hands? Or perhaps the flick has cost them only a pittance to make, so no big risk?

Somebody apparently thought they had a good idea. Maybe they did, someplace back there, but it turned into a turkey of a movie. The sad thing is that in most ways this is actually fairly well done. A lot of effort went into making a pretty good-looking movie without spending a ton of money, and they did succeed there. However, the characters are so overdrawn that I started rooting for the storm/monster/fate/whatever.Jessica and Julianna are both good eye candy, and they didn't annoy me all the time, but even their Sara and Mel seemed infected by whatever virus it is that causes movie makers to turn capable actors into cardboard stereotypes and start swapping clichés against each other. (I gave up on the boys within the first third of the movie; what a batch of losers.) Perhaps there just wasn't anything else to be done in a little plane for an hour.Then there's that bizarro ending... I think I may need a flow chart.I don't know what we're supposed to take from this movie, exactly, but all I got was a couple of pretty actresses to keep an eye on -- hopefully in better films -- and some practice scratching my head in confusion. Oh, and I lost count of how many beers Sal opened, but it's not worth going back to recount.