...for a lazy day, its like a direct to video Twilght Zone episode. Though at least they had the budget for blank firing prop guns instead of the CGI way used by everyone nowadays. There were many unintentional laughs but the one that cracked me up was they had the flight crew and history professors make the parachute to drop the radar while the two airborne soldiers sat watching 😀.
Dave
I agree ... Saw this on Netflix and it kept me interested throughout. I always liked the "what if" scenarios in movies like "The Final Countdown".
The only real issue i had was the unnecessary need to to throw in the squadron of ME 262s ... The planes weren't operational in1940. That, compounded by the fact only the best pilots flew them (most were aces) and the plane was generally armed with 4x 20mm cannons (which would have bored massive holes in to the pressurized plane and destroyed it in short order). In other words, the massive, lumbering, defenseless airliner likely wouldn't have lasted one pass of a single ME 262 ...
Would have liked a.forced landing in Germany or Britain for all the intrigue such an aircraft would have garnered in 1940 ... Not to mention the smartphones everyone likely had. That way the plot could have been expanded a little more, not allowing it to be tied-up so neatly at the end. Regardless, the movie was a nice little nugget to find amid the sea of garbage streaming in Netflix.
Agree about the damage the ME262 would cause. The movie is set in an alternate timeline and is mentioned in the movie. In this time line Dunkirk was a failure. In fact that's why in the goof section the ME262 presence being factually wrong was pulled.
Dave
Well it's kind of an alternate history by the time the airliner shows up in 1940. Dunkirk was a disaster, so perhaps the ME 262 was developed earlier in the alternate reality. Also, there are still British troops on the ground in France after Dunkirk.
What cracks me up is that the airliner's going all over the map of France. First it was in St. Nazaire, then Rennes, then the Swiss border, and then Metz. Cripes, why didn't they just fly for England? From St. Nazaire, it's a straight shot north.
It would've been more acceptable as a Twilight Zone episode! I think it was a (really bad) ripoff of "The Final Countdown."
shareI just watched it on Netflix. I saw that it had a 4.4 rating here and figured I would take a risk. I thought it was a decent time travel story.
"You'll notice the sun went down as we went through that storm. That sometimes happens when you pass over the tip of the Bermuda Triangle." ..... lol
They should make some sequels to this. Maybe Flight Napoleonic Wars, Flight Korean War, or Flight Soviet War in Afghanistan. I would definitely watch a sequel.
I think this is a really good idea for a movie. Now if someone would just spend some money on proper writers and actors and do it all over again, I would definitely watch it. I can't remember the last time I actually watched a movie of this calibur all the way through but I did finish this one. 3 stars all the way.
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