I reviewed the ruckus-on-an-airplane thriller TURBULENCE a little before Christmas, and I knew it had two non-holiday-specific DTV sequels, so obviously I wasnāt going to let them go unexamined. TURBULENCE 2: FEAR OF FLYING is from 1999, two years after the first one, made by different people and without any connected characters. But faced with the question āWhat makes a TURBULENCE movie a TURBULENCE movie?ā director David Mackay (ICE SCULPTURE CHRISTMAS) and writers Rob Kerchner (BLOODFIST IV-VII, CARNOSAUR 3: PRIMAL SPECIES, CASPER: A SPIRITED BEGINNING, WARGAMES: THE DEAD CODE) & Brendan Broderick (THE DEATH ARTIST) & Kevin Bernhardt (3000 MILES TO GRACELAND, PEACEFUL WARRIOR, ELEPHANT WHITE) decided āthereās a hijack attempt during a flight and they have to fight it off and somebody whoās not the pilot has to land the plane with direction from somebody on the ground.ā Logical enough. Letās go with it.
The new spin they came up with, as indicated in the subtitle, is that most of the people on this flight, including our intrepid heroes, have a phobia of flying. Theyāre part of a class trying to overcome said fear first in a simulator and then on an actual flight from Seattle to L.A. And theyāre not very relaxed about it since one of the flight attendants accidentally left the intercom on while talking about a storm that will make the flight āHell.ā (read the rest of this shit…)
It doesnāt seem like many people read my reviews of these 21st century competitive street dancing movies, but I have a fascination with them, so here we are. STREETDANCE 3D is a UK entry in the subgenre and itās from 2010 – six years after 
āI just do what Iām told.ā
So much for that bullshit. Now for the next one. Hopefully we can start digging our way out of the wreckage from this one.
I like Christopher Nolanās movies. So, had things gone reasonably in the world, Christopher Nolanās TENET by Christopher Nolan is a movie that I for sure wouldāve seen right away in a theater. Butā¦ you know. So I didnāt.
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