Flight of the Phoenix

Flight of the Phoenix (2004)

  • 30% of critics liked it
    (116 reviews)

  • 47% of users liked it
    (57,720 ratings)

Based on a novel by Elleston Trevor, director John Moore's The Flight of the Phoenix is a remake of a 1965 film of the same name starring film icon James Stewart. The story revolves around the plight of Captain Frank Towns (Dennis Quaid), a pilot whose C-119 cargo plane full of oil workers could not… More

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PG-13, 1 hr. 52 min.
Directed By
John Moore
Written By
Scott Frank, Edward Burns
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure
In Theaters
Dec 17, 2004 Wide
On DVD
Mar 1, 2005
20th Century Fox

Critic Reviews

  • Mark Holcomb, Village Voice

    By film's end the adventure appears less a matter of base survival than a beach barbecue gone slightly sour.

  • Lou Lumenick, New York Post

    The wonderful character actors in the original ... are succeeded by a fairly anonymous bunch.

  • Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

    Other than Dennis Quaid, none of these characters leaves so much as a footprint in the sand. We don't know them. We don't care about them.

  • Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

    This is high-carb filmmaking at its finest.

  • Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star

    This time out, there's not much out there to look at besides sand, and even it doesn't look real.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Jeff "


    Now I have never seen the original film starring legend Jimmy Stewart so I can't compare the two films. But I do plan to see it eventually. This remake like all the others is probably not as great as the original. But that doesn't mean that this film is bad. I was quite… More

  • KJ P


    This was a well planned out film! But they could have added a little more spice to it!

  • jay n


    Took and interesting idea from a good film and ruined it. Watch the Jimmy Stewart original.

  • Anthony L


    Odd remake, Giovanni Ribisi character made very little sense compared to the original.

  • Lorenzo v


    A group of air crash survivors are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no chance of rescue. Facing a brutal environment, dwindling resources, and an attack by desert smugglers, they realize their only hope is doing the impossible... building a new plane from the wreckage of the old… More

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