Review of Chariot

Chariot (2013)
3/10
Destination: Bad Ending.
31 January 2014
Warning: Spoilers
I'm going to keep this very short and to the point. A missing 727 plane goes missing and resurfaces for something called Project Chariot where 191 people were to be boarded on a plane and taken to safety. Things go wrong when only seven people are aboard this plane for a 'dry run' of the project. Now, up until the ending I thought this was a decent movie (which is I gave it 3 stars instead of just one.) I enjoyed the suspense, the drama and the different personalities along with certain unexpected situations. So, in the end (I did check that this has major spoilers by the way) they find out it was all a hoax and that the 727 plane wasn't stolen but refitted for Chariot but when the pilots die and the project is deemed a failure the commanding officer keeps it classified by faking a terrorist attack, blocking communications and letting fighter jets blow them out of the sky. Well, at the last second of this movie, right when you're faced with the moment of truth; will these civies land the plane or will they be blown away, it cuts to black and you're faced with text that basically says what happens to the plane is a mystery.

If that is not the most bullshit, cop-out of a cheap ending I have ever seen... I was so disappointed I actually made an IMDb account just so I can bitch. I mean, this ending is so bad the movie might as well have been called "Flight Disappointment." I don't know what else to say about this movie except don't watch it. I mean what? Did they buy one too many coffees and just suddenly run out of budget to make a proper ending so they hired some college undergrad who's an intern as a graphics artist to put text on a black screen? I bet they paid for his services in pocket lint and life savers (if they could afford the lint.)
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