I felt like an aviation disaster movie the other night. I picked Executive Decision which I hadn't seen before. It was a relatively easy plot to follow, although certain things, ie the London terror attack, happened and then weren't referred to later. The heroes were typical wise-cracking Americans. Even the guy lying on a stretcher with a life-changing spinal injury, doped up with morphine, managed a few well-timed wisecracks. AND he managed to instruct a guy in the art of bomb diffusing! David Suchet put in the best acting performance, I think, followed closely by Halle Berry. As usual in such films, never mind a terrorist hold-up on a Boeing 747, multiple deaths via heavy machine gun fire, half the plane ripped to pieces, the pilots getting shot and a near beginner having to land the plane, the only thing that mattered was that the All-American wise-crackin' hero got his girl. So yeah, the tone was just slightly inappropriate, but it kept me in suspense and watching till the end.
Review of Executive Decision
