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The giveaway for me was when they were at the dinner table and the brother wanted to show the boyfriend a fighting move, then another family member said he was going to do a headlock. Right then I knew the opening scene was done by the brother.
I tend to agree there, the first hour was pretty good and I would have liked to have seen the ending wrapped up a bit better. As far as survival goes we don't know how much water the bad guys left his wife and child - obviously enough to survive to what looked like 2 extra days - it couldn't have been much more time wise.
As far as going without food well anyone healthy enough can go without food for up to a month - ask my mum she fasted for 34 days not one scrap of food but of course she wasn't stranded on a deserted island with very little water. Heck I have even fasted for 1 week no problems. So lack of food is a non issue even for a few weeks.
Just watched it too and loved it.
I was very happy with the ending and felt glad (for him) it was all just a dream. There was a certain amount of empathy during the course of the movie for the protagonist and even the setup and sub-ending wasn't realistic to be a real life scenario. Things like that just don't happen in real life, FBI do not do elaborate setups like that neither does a man that owns his own property put up with a sicko hitch hiker in the first place. These things however do happen in dreams so that all made sense to me.
AFAIK great ending.
I agree it was pilot error but for a totally different reason. According to the movie sequence of events the pilot decided to go to 6000 feet without confirmation. The AX-112 (Russians) were told to descend to 10000 feet>>>DH-616 fails to communicate to tower>>DH-616 says TCAS is telling them to descend also missed by the TC>>DH-616 tried twice more to communicate and fails>>AX-112 then told to descend to 6000 feet>>DH-616 then says lack of communication so descending to 6000 feet anyway.
Now the movie doesn't tell us what DH-616's original altitude but we can safely assume that it was 10000 feet and that's why the TCAS was suggesting they descend to 6000 feet. Here's the thing. I am pretty sure that the pilot shouldn't have descended to 6000 feet without confirmation, as it was if he stayed at 10000 feet there would have been no collision. On the other hand how was the DH-616 pilot to know that, also the Russian plane was at 6000 feet so why didn't TCAS tell the DH plane to rise to 10000 feet? TCAS fault there as well???? As another poster said TCAS was relatively new at the time.
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