
An airplane filled with V.I.P.s invited Mr. Philip Steven's grand opening of his art collection in Florida is hijacked when a trio knock out the passengers with gas and try to steal the priceless cargo of art treasures. But everything goes wrong for the hijackers when the low flying 747 clips an oil rig and crashes in the Bermuda Triangle. While the passengers remain alive in the shallow water, a daring rescue operation is planned to bring the plane up without breaking it in ... (Full plot summary below)
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An airplane filled with V.I.P.s invited Mr. Philip Steven's grand opening of his art collection in Florida is hijacked when a trio knock out the passengers with gas and try to steal the priceless cargo of art treasures. But everything goes wrong for the hijackers when the low flying 747 clips an oil rig and crashes in the Bermuda Triangle. While the passengers remain alive in the shallow water, a daring rescue operation is planned to bring the plane up without breaking it in two.
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| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyThis trashy adventure-melodrama is the second in the film series that began in 1970. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonAirport '77 sounds like it would be the dopiest of them all, but it's actually not bad, thanks to a surprisingly strong cast and a tendency to avoid any camp. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie’s a big, slick entertainment, relentlessly ridiculous and therefore never boring for long. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyAirport '77 looks less like the work of a director and writers than like a corporate decision. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrFirst-rate schlock; overlong and incredibly stupid, but that's part of the formula by now. |
| User ReviewKeith RLol...great disaster movie...last watched in the late 70's. |
| User ReviewTrent SEveryone is trashing these silly movies, but damn it, I like them. They were popular then for a reason. Sure, we have fancy computer-generated special effects and actors with no abilities now because of it, but back then, it was good stuff. Appreciate it for what it was, not diss it for what there is now. |
| User ReviewRitu RBest AIPRORT movie of the series! The story is a bit silly at first - a private 747 loaded with rich guests and an art collection is seized by hijackers after the booty and flown off course, but the plane hits an oil rig somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle(?!) and crashes into the sea, sinks to the bottom on a shallow seamount and somehow the fuselage remains intact and passengers are trapped underwater! The crash scene was very impressive and by today's SFX standards very well done and gripping. Those trapped then try to hold it all together to help each other survive and find a way to alert the Navy and Coast Guard to be rescued. Final scenes of a sub-style salvage attemot are also well worth the price of the movie. One that holds your attention from the start and never slackens pace. And you get a brilliant cast, featuring JACK LEMMON, DARREN MCGAVIN, LEE GRANT, BRENDA VACCARO, CHRISTOPHER LEE(horray, Dracula!!), Buck Rogers himslef GIL GERARD, veteran actress OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND from Gone With The Wind and more! |
| User ReviewIan LThe Airport films are the base for the guys who created Airplane worked from ,and this entry in the series is a stonker in bad acting and crap special effects. What makes these films great is seeing actors like James Stewart,and Jack Lemmon deliver some of the worst lines in film history. the plot (plane crashes into sea and guys try to raise it ) is soo implausible its unreal. but who cares when your having this much fun watching an all star cast get extremley wet These movies died out in the 80s which was a shame as i love there badness its only now with films like Armageddon and The Day After Tomorrow that we learn to love the disaster movie genre |
| User ReviewStephen CThe Airport films are the base for the guys who created Airplane worked from ,and this entry in the series is a stonker in bad acting and crap special effects. What makes these films great is seeing actors like James Stewart,and Jack Lemmon deliver some of the worst lines in film history. the plot (plane crashes into sea and guys try to raise it ) is soo implausible its unreal. but who cares when your having this much fun watching an all star cast get extremley wet These movies died out in the 80s which was a shame as i love there badness its only now with films like Armageddon and The Day After Tomorrow that we learn to love the disaster movie genre |