'Turbulence' is a daft movie, but a daft movie with good special effects, Ray Liotta/Lauren Holly (which is better than it seems) and - above all - is fun to watch.'Fear of Flying' (frankly, I reckon they added the 'Turbulence 2' to avoid litigation) is a ludicrous movie, with re-used footage from 'Turbluence', Craig Sheffer - my least favorite actor who has been in TWO other air disaster movies, 'Flying Virus' and 'Cabin Pressure' - and is absolutely humdrum.This film is not "So bad it's good!", it's "So bad its awful!". For one, Craig Sheffer is not a likable hero. He's a bumbling little weenie! I think I connected better with the bloody hijacker than anyone else! The supporting cast is not even worth a mention, and it sickens me to think that they reused one scene of this movie in Jodie Foster's 'Flightplan' (who keeps writing these bloody clichéd scripts, anyway? Is it the same one guy?!?!). Heck, even 'Turbulence 3' was better than this! Yes, you heard me - 'TURBULENCE 3' is BETTER than this. Craig Sheffer should be BANNED from making movies. Locked up somewhere. He's such an AWFUL actor! And yes, I realize I'm having a whinge - but it's true! The worst part of this movie is HIM, in all his cocky, scaredy-cat 'save the world and my family' glory! I hate this movie!!!

*Mild spoilers* (Don't worry, there's very little to spoil in a movie like this anyway.)The original Turbulence was a painful experience. Not only that, but it was a legendary flop which didn't even make a tenth of it's budget back on the opening weekend. It defies belief that 55 Million was wasted on such a pile of crap. And what's even harder to believe is the fact that they made a sequel. Although they did make sequels to rubbish like Nemesis, U.S Seals and Operation Delta Force, Turbulence 2: Fear Of Flying has absolutely nothing to do with the original Turbulence and went straight to video. So why have "Turbulence" in the title at all? The name has no value, and is more likely to turn people away than to draw people to it.Since there are plenty of good fun cheesy flicks in the video market, I always wonder why TV here has to keep showing the absolute worst ones. This was shown by Channel 5 at 12:55 AM and was described in the TV listings as "Action thriller with Tom Berenger". Since it has nothing to do with the original Turbulence, I decided to watch it anyway. However, it turned out that Tom Berenger is not the hero, nor the villain, but reduced to a pathetic role as one of the Air Traffic Control guys. Instead we have one of the most lifeless and boring heroes since Michael Dudikoff in Craig Sheffer. This movie was bad, bad, bad. So bad that at times I was in hysterics, and it kept getting worse and worse.Plot: 01/10Basically the same as the original Turbulence. Plane is hijacked, pilot is killed and it's up to one of the passengers to land it. But wait, there's a group of people on this plane who've recently completed a program to overcome their fear of flying and this is their celebration flight! Erm, right.Performances: 01/10Give me a break. This was just hilarious. Jeffrey Nordling's villainous performance is one of the worst I've ever seen. His accent keeps coming back and forth and disappears on long sentences. All he does is snarl and takes his anger out on the passengers, while coming off about as scary as McDonalds Happy Meal. Craig Sheffer is so lacking in talent and charisma that I couldn't care less what happened to his character. And there's something sad about seeing Tom Berenger reduced to such a useless and dull secondary character.Action: 02/10What little action there actually is is far too simplistic and boring to give any kind of impression. We have a few brawls in the many failed attempts to take down the lead villain by the passengers, a handgun which fires about 30 rounds over the course of the whole film without reloading, and a laughable CGI rocket coming up from obviously stock footage of a boat. For a movie marketed as an action movie, anyone expecting anything that can really be called action will be extremely disappointed. If you're expecting to see planes and maybe cars crashing, explosions, good guys shooting bad guys, then you'll be extremely disappointed. This movie has absolutely none of that.Production values: 02/10Pretty cheap, really. The plane interior sets are passable, but there's absolutely no visual flair to the movie at all and everything just smells of cheapness. Not to mention the poor CGI when the bomb is thrown out, the use of obvious stock footage throughout the movie, shots of a plane going through a storm with weather effects that is very obviously digitally imposed.Suspense: 01/10The "hero" who supposedly had a fear of flying shows none of it at all, and doesn't even seem particularly bothered about the whole ordeal. So ask yourself what suspense there could possibly be?Entertainment Value: 08/10This movie is an absolute train wreck, make no mistake about it. However, I did laugh a lot during it. While not as bad in a "so bad it's good way" as Jim Wynorski's Extreme Limits, the incompetence of this flick still made me laugh hard. There were several tedious moments where I turned away from the screen, but it wasn't long before it threw something else at me that had me laughing. There were many times when I thought it couldn't possibly get any worse but it did, right till the end. Like t he scene where the villain throws the lawyer out of the plane just because he hates lawyers! And he happens to land right beside Tom Berenger in the air traffic control tower! Jeffrey Nordling's terrible performance was the cause of many laughs, really. I lost count of the amount of times a passenger would unsuccessfully tackle him. Who were the Czech terrorists? Were they in it together with Jeffrey Nordling's character? After he kills them, none of this is ever explained. Could you stand 2 feet away from an open door in a moving plane? Would a young kid be able to make it onto the tarmac in an airport without getting stopped by security? If you answered yes to those, then you'll probably be able to appreciate this as a good action movie.All in all, this is absolute garbage. But it's all played out in such a way and there are so many continuity errors that it's hilarious to watch. By far one of the worst movies I've ever seen, but also one of the funniest. If you do watch it, watch is as a comedy and you'll make the most out of what really is a truly terrible, but really "so bad it's good" movie.It's funny that many movies that aren't actually intended to be funny, end up being the funniest.

Actually this movie is a bit better than the ridiculous first part, which was nothing less than shameful. But when I saw this I actually had a good time. Now I thinking seriously about renting part 3, but who knows...

The first Turbulence movie really reeked (ie. it stunk out the whole cabin), mostly because there were large portions of the movie where nothing much exciting happened. They fixed this problem for Turbulence 2 with wall-to-wall non-stop heart-pounding action. OK, the action isn't heart-pounding but it's certainly wall-to-wall. There's always somebody fighting, running away, chasing, blowing something up, shooting, dying, trying to escape or, of course, flying the plane in turbulent conditions. Oh yeah, and falling...The wall-to-wall action is flanked closely on both sides with wall-to-wall stupidity, but to its credit the movie does not take itself too seriously. How could it? A fear of flying group takes a ride in a plane with a bunch of terrorists with a bomb on board which then heads towards a storm. Ha ha, yeah right. Now, it's up to the fear of flying passengers & crew to save the day which they do with varying degrees of success. When ANOTHER crew member gets shot attempting to overthrow the bad guy the bad guy says something along the lines of "Aargh! what's wrong with you people?". It's delivered beautifully.Actually, the acting in general is really very, err, well capable. I was going to say good, but in the context of this movie it wouldn't quite fit. I'm only giving this movie 4/10, but it's a fun 4/10. Chill that beer, microwave that popcorn, hand over your $2 to the video shop, switch off brain, press play, enjoy.