Plane (2023)

IMDb plot summary: A pilot finds himself caught in a war zone after he's forced to land his commercial aircraft during a terrible storm.

Directed by Jean-Francois Richet. Starring Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, and Tony Goldwyn.

Plane is a 2023 action movie starring Gerard Butler as the pilot of a plane that crash lands on a remote island, and Butler must find a way for them to get off before the inhabitants of the island  find them and hurt them. For being a movie named Plane, there's actually very little time spent on the plane, which was somewhat of a disappointment to me. You can absolutely create a compelling and creative story set entirely in the air, just look at something like Red Eye or, to a lesser extent, Snakes on a Plane. This one seems to run out of ideas pretty quickly, and we're left with a series of uninspired jungle fight sequences that could have been found in any other movie. The film does a decent job of building up the character development of one of the side characters, a criminal being extradited to the US who finds himself with unexpected freedom and nowhere to go with it, and that character's interaction with Butler is probably the most interesting part of the whole movie, followed closely by the first 20 and final 20 minutes where they're actually on the plane. A decent but unexceptional action thriller.

How it entered my Flickchart:

Plane < The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair

Plane > Pepito and the Magic Lamp

Plane > Adam

Plane < Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Plane > The War

Plane > The Jerk

Plane > The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Plane < Casino

Plane < The Kids Are All Right

Plane < Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Plane > Along Came a Spider

Plane > Tab Hunter Confidential

Final spot: #2160 out of 3794, or 43%.