You can imagine the committee meetings devoted to finding just the right title for primo action star Gerard Butler’s latest in which he plays an airline pilot encountering lightning strikes that force him to crash land on a rebels-infested remote island in the Philippines.
As it criss crosses the airline disaster genre and frightening jungle thriller, why not just tell the public what it really is.
While it could be called Terror Island, or maybe Pirates Jungle, or Flight To The Death, the producers came up with the inspired plain Plane.
That works well enough for anyone expecting Airport meets The High And The Mighty, but really it is just the first half that fits snugly into that category, nail biting as it is.
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