Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, Charo
This film is the last of the 'Airport' genre which stars George Kennedy again in his aviation-disaster struck role as Joe Patroni who has to contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the...( read more
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An incredible story where a passenger-carrying Concorde is under attack by the French Air Force. This movie has to be seen just to experience the appalling special effects as the Concorde banks to avoid a missile.
Final installment of the Airport series which had been steadily declining since the original in 1970. The efx are pathetic, but even worse the storyline is poor with plot holes big enough to fly the concorde through. The script is downright awful, with plenty of awkward moment...( read more)
Shame to see such mythical airplane in such a crappy movie. Some nice flight and taxi scenes and of course liftoff but the rest is just bad special effects.
This final installment of the Airport franchise is just plain unfortunate.
this is an airplane drama in which a concorde plane was trying to destroy by one industrialist cause one of the passanger here gather some documents that this industrialist giant is involve in nuclear weapon activities, the scene i love in this film is the special effects on how ...( read more)
the concorde was the latest air plane during that yr, so the movie is exciting also
Although highly implausible (there is NO WAY this woman who had never flown before could've landed a freaking Concorde) still worth one viewing just for laughs sake,
My second favourite Airport movie. [After'Airport '77'] Fun to watch how capable the Concorde was.
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