Review – Flight of the Phoenix (2004)

When I first saw this, I hadn't seen the original. So I didn't really know how this one compares. But standing on its own, this is your standard, run-of-the-mill action adventure movie about a group of personality types in a perilous situation forced to work together to survive. The situation here is a plane crash in the middle of nowhere Mongolia (or is it China?), with menaces including sand storms, smugglers, and of course the de rigeur lack of provisions and surplus of interpersonal communication issues. If you like this sort of thing, this is a fairly well-produced specimen. Mildly amusing