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Where am I supposed to start with this movie? I seriously have no idea. Okay, so it's a typical US-made TV production and as it appears, all TV directors have made an agreement to produce such nonsense. Actors with average performance are put into what is supposed to be a Concorde supersonic aircraft and are taken hostage by Secret Service agents on behalf of a president and vice president who is supporting the war in the Balcan to have his economy prosper. Well, let's have a look at the aircraft. Okay, it's been a while that I have seen the insides of a Concorde, but what they are showing here has no resemblance whatsoever with the aircraft. Some scenes with F-14 Tomcats are taken from "Top Gun" and all in all, you can see that the budget ended before they could actually do some action scenes. Produced in 2001, this movie contains mainly very old scenes in the outdoor shots, so that they also were able to use car chases and a car crash from an old European spy movie. That one gave me a really good laugh. Before indulging too much into all the details here, let me just say that I was really surprised to find that at the Paris Airport they were using US-made ambulances. While that actually is possible, I was even more surprised to find that they also had US number plates on them.

Forgive me for being a bit sarcastic, but such movies really spoil the joy of watching TV. It's not necessarily in the plot or the actors, but it's the details.

The plot behind "Mach 2" in principle is good and the different threads could make for three different movies. A aircraft hijack, a presidential intrigue and an international spy connection. However, they gallantly left out anything that would have made this movie "intellectually challenging".

I watched Mach 2 film on my sky q today and the film had very cheap special effects and I liked Micheal dorns character called Barry rogers who try's to scare the usa senator and other passengers with a nuclear weapon but the scene were Barry drops out of the concord plane with parachute and saying I have got good news there is no nuke on the plane that was greatly choreographed by Micheal dorn from that scene and I liked the scene were jack and Shannon took over the aircraft try to contact Paris air traffic control that scene had cheap visual effects and I liked we're landing net saves plane.

I enjoyed watching this film as it gave me great pleasure in righteously ripping it to shreds with my fellow viewers. This movie doesn't need a spoiler alert as it is already spoiled.

The plot is simplistic in that a US senator travels to Balkans on a Concorde aeroplane and he possesses a computer disk implicating the vice-president in a plot to expand the war the senator is trying to mediate in so that that the US can sell arms to both side and thus keep the USA economy going. The bad ole secret service hijack the plane under the pretence of being a Balkan splinter group, steal the disks, kill the crew and radio the authorities it has a nuclear bomb on board then shoot the radio so that when they parachute to safety (But are then suddenly chased and killed by unknown attackers)the US navy without even asking the French send up fighters to try shoot it down over the French Alps.

Enter the hero who's name I cannot be bothered to recall. He and his pretty companions go about trying to get the plane back down, and one pretty thing having been given a radio kit as a present when a teenager promptly repairs the complex communication system on the Concorde with a Swiss army knife. Then the US navy F-14s take off with empty missile racks, but damage with missiles the Concorde fuel tanks located in its extreme tail. At this point communications are restored and the F-14 pilot who probably had never even seen a concord cockpit gives the hero a switch by switch briefing on how to control remaining fuel and engines. All this time the Concorde has been visible on the radar at both Dulles and Le Bourget simultaneously whilst it was mid Atlantic. The French and American Air Traffic can both seem to talk to the aircraft at the same time.

Enter the stereotype French disheveled Gaulloies smoking ex navy pilot controller who then talks the hero to land, lever by lever, even telling how much flap to lower which is strange as Concorde doesn't use flaps, but the hero manages to lower the wheels and the droop nose unaided on finals but mysteriously raises it before ploughing into the crash barrier. US registered ambulance then take away the injured whilst several US registered light aircraft sit on the apron, the backdrop view enhanced by the famous snow capped mountains that surround Paris. There is more.............Watch for WowII!