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Summary Pilot Brodie Torrance (Gerard Butler) saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island - only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare (Mike Colter...
Directed By: Jean-François Richet
Written By: Charles Cumming, J.P. Davis
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Summary Pilot Brodie Torrance (Gerard Butler) saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island - only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare (Mike Colter...
Directed By: Jean-François Richet
Written By: Charles Cumming, J.P. Davis
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 43 Critic Reviews
62
60% Positive
26 Reviews
26 Reviews
37% Mixed
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 43 Critic Reviews
62
60% Positive
26 Reviews
26 Reviews
37% Mixed
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Jan 11, 2023
It is all such gloriously smart stupidity that you cannot help but applaud everyone involved for sticking the landing.
Jan 13, 2023
While Plane is meant to be a disposable object, the marks of intelligent filmmaking will make it linger as a positive point of comparison against various irritatingly tongue-in-cheek, cartoonish action films of late.
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 111 User Ratings
6.5
45% Positive
50 Ratings
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47% Mixed
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8% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 111 User Ratings
6.5
45% Positive
50 Ratings
50 Ratings
47% Mixed
52 Ratings
52 Ratings
8% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
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Jun 30, 2023
Very successful action film of the classic kind. There is a suspense curve, the story is reasonably logical and the protagonists are believable. You can watch it with friends and beer at the weekend.
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Jan 12, 2023
If you go into it expecting nothing more than to enjoy watching a sweaty Butler manhandle some bad guys while Colter manhandles him, you’ll be more than satisfied with the ride Plane offers — a well-executed hunk of pulpy entertainment.
Jan 12, 2023
Consider this an entertaining popcorn movie to start the year off right, and as Gerard Butler actioners go, a solid mid-tier production.
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Jan 25, 2023
Almost completely built out of clichés and corn, there’s very little in Plane that hasn’t been seen before, but it very rarely matters. Exciting without ever really thrilling, it’s an immovably solid actioner – a fun Friday night pizza movie packing a handful of relentlessly unfussy action scenes that deliver exactly what they promise.
Jan 11, 2023
Plane is as broadly sketched as its title. Puerto Rico doubles here for Philippines, and most of the story elements, too, feel like they’re stand-ins for basic plot conventions.
Jan 12, 2023
Plane is, in essence, the Frontier Airlines of action films: It’s cut-rate to a fault, makes you endure a lot of unpleasantness on the way to its final destination, and still leaves you with the distinct feeling that you didn’t even get what you paid for.
Jan 16, 2023
The movie is awesome, a must see! Yes, everything you want in a movie…thrills, action, suspense, and wonderful ending. Satisfies your every need…the itch you wanna scratch. Gerard Butler is genuine and kick ass. Amazing cast. 90’s feel without plot filler or drag. Perfect from start to finish and will have you gripping onto your seat for dear life but enjoying every moment. You’ll feel like you are a passenger on this flight—and you want Gerard Butler to be your pilot… kicking some serious ass and flying you to safety. Get out of your hibernation this winter and go see it now!
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Sep 14, 2025
Gerard Butler returns to what he does best: an action thriller where logic takes a back seat. The Pilot doesn’t aim for realism, nor does it need to. It’s full of impossible scenes and over-the-top moments, but it delivers on its promise: keeping you engaged for nearly two hours with a brisk pace and plenty of intense **** real strength lies in Butler, once again proving why he still works so well as an old-school action hero. Alongside him, Mike Colter brings the solidity needed to keep things interesting, even when the script leans on clichés we’ve seen countless times. Their chemistry elevates material that, in other hands, might have felt much flatter.Jean-François Richet directs with fast, straightforward action and no unnecessary frills. Some situations may resolve a bit too easily, but the narrative pulse is strong enough to never lose the viewer. At times, it recalls those 1980s video-club action flicks, where spectacle mattered more than credibility.This isn’t about deep twists or innovation. The Pilot is “fast food” cinema: quick, straightforward, easy to forget, but effective at what it offers. Explosions, fights, and suspense, with plenty of room for uncomplicated fun.Ultimately, it may not leave a lasting mark or change perceptions of the genre, but it delivers what it sets out to: escapism and action, Butler-style. And in that sense, it works perfectly.
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Apr 8, 2023
(Mauro Lanari)
Perhaps coadiuvated more by Fuqua than by Snyder, Butler has been able to carve out a personal tipology of action hero, that of the self-made man socially coming from below with a beard and sweaty tshirt, far from the irony of Willis and Schwarzy as from Vin Diesiel's coarseness. While Bruce dueted with Mrs. McLane, Gerard is obsessed with the inevitable vapid scene of the family father. At the moment his film career is on the wane but, rather than seeing him go from the testimonial of L'Oréal shaving foam and U-Power work shoes to luxury products such as Festina **** better that he self-produce in a film with few pretensions, concise and of ordinary quality in the only role that suits him.
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Mar 27, 2023
Mostly pointless with poor acting! Butler is a captain come mercenary??? Must do better!
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Production Company
- Di Bonaventura Pictures
- G-BASE
- Lionsgate
- MadRiver Pictures
- Olive Hill Media
- Pimienta
- Riverstone Pictures
Release Date Jan 13, 2023
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating R
Tagline The crash was only the beginning.
Website https://www.plane.movie/
