A film of collecting money from the population, shooting, explosions, ponts and impenetrable stupidity. When a movie suddenly raises a lot of money, you need to shoot the second part with any script. Still, the main role will belong to pistols and pyropatrons. At some point, the scenarios of big projects began to involve idiots who are not very interested in what they write. Back in the 90s, I was stressed by one of the scenes of the film. A top manager of a large corporation calls a flight attendant to him and asks: “I was thinking – there is enough fuel on the plane for an endless flight?” You thought! A few hours later, you had a similar thought. Thinkers of this magnitude are born once in a millennium. Already from such a primitive presentation, it is obvious what viewer the film is designed for.
The plot itself is funny. Military boards receive military airports at military bases. For example, in order to prevent civilians from suffering in case of possible attempts to free a military prisoner. That is, the plot plot at the level of “the Queen of Great Britain was kidnapped when she went out for bread”. That's the whole movie. Planes that cannot land for hours are absurd. They are rerouted to other airports hours before the weather on the spot deteriorates to an alarming level - the weather forecast and all that. And even more funny, there are airports within a radius of forty kilometers. Planes would reach them in minutes, instead of circling for hours. And if you take a screenwriter's map, spin it for ten minutes, you could find a remote location where the movie would work. But why? The fees will not fall from the degree of absurdity.
Thrash continues. Heroes go to the unfinished terminal to use the equipment. That's what always happens. First, the industrial facility is equipped with equipment, connected, configured, and then the building is completed. Not surprisingly, the script was tortured by three writers at once, and the director of the first part refused to shoot the second. This three-headed Gorynych screenwriter invented a very dramatic twist with the plane landing below ground level. That's just a Boeing slightly more complex device than a battery-powered airplane for a baby. It also has an automatic height sensor. How would radio be lost, and what would a pilot do without a voice whispering in his ear? And in this universe of fools, SWAT doesn't control territory or provide cover. And all in order to show a simple hero from the people, who alone can save everyone, and the rest of the professionals can only interfere with him. Against this background, even the ability to withstand two assault rifles with a gun looks somehow tolerable. The finale is enchanting, but not in the way it was intended. The inventors clearly do not know the speed of the take-off aircraft, and they ignite kerosene at a speed of hundreds of kilometers an hour. Test. And kerosene continues to burn for tens of minutes. And under the curtain, passengers jump out of planes on rescue ramps. After all, in airplanes it is not customary to keep passengers sitting until the arrival of transport, but immediately land on the airfield so that they in light clothes wander into a hurricane among landing aircraft. You see, someone gets lost, gets frostbite or gets hit by wheels – that’s what we want.
In sum, this film can only be laughed at in the voice. It is born of the fantasy of strange people, in the picture of the world of which everything works through one place, no one can do anything, no one has instructions and protocols, and all idiots are at the level of the writers of the script. By the way, the third part of the franchise the script is better, which is not accidental, since it was originally written for another film. And the objections that, they say, this is an action film, you do not need to turn your head on, do not work. I understand that the viewer does not have to be a genius. But he shouldn’t be a degenerate either. Especially when it comes to the writer.