The amount of delirium, absurdity and oversophistication, of course, is off the scale. But the picture is beautiful, the plot still keeps in suspense, some suspense is also present - so it is quite watchable series. You can take a look if you find nothing more interesting.
Everyone on this plane is like me, like you.
I want to go back to my family. To see his son, his mother.
Everything else will be a lie.
The plane was hijacked by terrorists. Today they write that there is an opportunity for the crew to launch sleepy gas into the passenger cabin, and then, when the terrorists are neutralized, to bring the passengers to their senses - to wake them up. The controversy here does not make sense because the film is not about anti-theft, but about the behavior of people in an extreme situation, both on the plane and on the ground, involved in the incident on the job and their loved ones should feel trouble with their heart.
There was a signal from the board that the plane was hijacked, and then they assured that the incident was resolved. A reasonable serviceman should think hard, and whether there is a withdrawal under threat of life. And we are slowly twisted by the turbulent development of events, where during the day of complete fuss and eternal haste, people who were touched by the incident, fixated on the problems of love or betrayal, reveal the characters and their attendant actions. On earth it is not believed, it is brushed aside, do not want to waste time in vain.
Baghdad controllers see an unidentified aircraft on radar and communicate with the board, wait for the captain for a long time when he comes, listen to the excited voice of the co-pilot and then reassure the captain, who is long absent by flight standards, that everything is fine, and calm down. Everyone wants the day to pass without surprises and rather home, to care for family and children. But finally there was a lady dispatcher, and thought about not docking in the messages from the plane.
The plot is tense. You're worried. We are given a picture of events both on the plane and on the ground. People have voluntarily separated themselves from each other, do not want to see, hear, understand, empathize and participate in the lives of those who have become indifferent to them, although at home the child of her disloyal man looks into the eyes of her mother. But trouble puts everything in its place. Psychological thriller, intellectual with good actors, camera and musical design pleased with the emotions and reality of the characters.
The author's mini-series of Jim Field Smith and Mo Ali turned out to be albeit a tracing with '24', but quite a fascinating psychological thriller that goes in real time. Yes, within a full meter would be cramped, but in the format of a TV show, it also does not work very much: if you watch one episode once a week, then the suspense is lost, the skeleton falls apart, events are forgotten, and not that. Although, nowadays, people like to watch the whole seasons, so this is more my trouble than a universal formula. Otherwise, it is from and to a fascinating spectacle that can capture your attention for seven hours and not let go until the end.
Scriptural, all hood. Rhythmic, interesting and rich in events. The story does not stand still and is constantly evolving. Not all characters are spelled out, of course, and there are many ‘non-scripts’, but that doesn’t bother. A good genre work on the topic of human psychology in a confined space. In the best traditions of King, we are shown what people are capable of in extreme situations and how they think.
Acting jobs are great. Elba is pleasing to the eye, and the rest are unknown to me. It is worth, in principle, to get acquainted with this series. You could say Idris's benefit was a success. The camera job is great, a lot of handheld camera, but I would like more long plans. After all, the form is binding. Installation default. Post-production is normal.
"Captured Flight" is another successful series of Apple service, which should not be renewed for a second season. All we had to do was tell us, and the rest was sucking from the finger. Stressed, nervous and relevant.
'Are you serious?' is the phrase I used throughout the 7 episodes. Well, episode 1 was kind of like nothing, like a bind and scare off the viewer immediately bad idea.
The flight is captured by some very strange guys, the main character is a business negotiator, finds himself on board and will show all of us how to act in such circumstances.
Of course, there is no point in disassembling the series from the point of view of safety during civilian flights. That's ridiculous. But if you look at the general scenario, well, very weak.
Some heroes are introduced and killed for some reason, the negotiations of the main officials of the countries look deliberately panibratical and the level of tension is about the same if you called the delivery service, if you did not put soy sauce and sticks. And the story itself is so far-fetched that at some point everything begins to be perceived as sur. Every idiotic moment, of which there are a lot in the series, already causes not discontent, but laughter, because you begin to wait for another stupidity and rejoice when it happens.
Well, that's the end of it, that's ooh! (in a bad sense of course).
Something like the ending of a Commando movie with Schwarzenegger. A far-fetched fight with no suspense and, "Let Bennett steam out!" But this is not a 1985 action movie.
The picture, as always with Apple, is good, but I thought it was too licky.
4 out of 10
For a seemingly good idea initially and more or less good acting.
Captured Flight is the story of how Idris Elba tried to become the 2020s Liam Neeson on a plane. And it turned out ... something unconvincing.
This is a camera series about the flight Dubai-London, which is captured by terrorists. Two points of view are broadcast here: those on board and those on the ground (if global, if targeted, that is, passengers, their relatives, the government, terrorists, relatives of terrorists and others who also influence the plot).
In general, the idea is quite good: the topic is sharp, directly begging for an action-thriller with a series of unusual twists. How will the passengers behave? What drives terrorists? What will the government do? What are the risks of a hijacked plane flying over different countries? What do dispatchers do? We can say that the question was answered, but without “meat” (for me, there were still a few triggers, who Idris works – in theory, he should resolve the conflict with terrorists and rich enough to fly first class (not even business, ladies and gentlemen).
I won't say anything else. I suppose that for those who rarely watch thrillers, the series can go straight very well and the obvious tropes do not count. For overzealous moviegoers like me, I would recommend passing by - time will simply pass, the series will just look, emotions after watching will immediately be forgotten.
6 out of 10
On Apple TV+ many other much more worthy TV series, what is it?
How excited I was to start watching this... From the first episode, well... The cartridge in the toilet (hole in the pocket?), with the autopilot working with some pen to change course - nonsense! A fighter pilot is able to see a gun in the window - nonsense! Of the 200-plus passengers in 5 hours, none went to the toilet! (no, one in the 6-series went). In general, realism is zero. It's fun for sleeping brains. And how tired of these open mouths at the female characters (not only here), demonstrating mental activity - the wider it spreads, the stronger it thinks. . .
The action begins with the departure of the plane from Dubai to London. It seems like a normal flight, which calmly pass daily, but not today. The plane is being hijacked by terrorists.
Here the main character - Sam Nielsen in a chic performance of Idris Elba shows all his qualities and skills to the fullest. He decides to save himself by defeating the invaders. Sam interacts with other passengers, whose characters are also interesting, in various attempts to stop the intruders. And this storyline is incredibly intriguing at first and to the very denouement, the fates of individual characters up to a certain point unknown motives of the kidnappers, and of course the central theme “Will the people who climbed on board survive?”
All this skillfully alternates with events that occur on earth. There, the story goes from his wife to the main and simple employee of the airline to the Prime Minister of Great Britain. All this is very interesting, and the viewer can no longer take away from viewing.
Unfortunately, in a barrel of honey will not do without a spoonful of tar. Script... There are blunders for every taste, there are small and imperceptible shortcomings that do not affect the plot, and there are such holes in the work of writers, on which the plot barely holds. In defense of the authors, I can only note that such an idea stretched over a whole series certainly at some point puts the creators before a choice: logic and a whole plot to the detriment of the viewer’s attention to viewing or a fascinating adventure is not without sin the story.
In summary, I want to say that if you like good thrillers, then this project will not leave you indifferent, despite the obvious problems in the series.
8 out of 10
In the fucking role of Idris Elba. It turned out a good thriller, as passengers led by a professional negotiator were able to save their lives on a hijacked flight by terrorists. Nothing particularly new in this genre appeared, except that the creators managed to tie the viewer to the screen for half a day. Amazing shooting of the landing of the airliner "on the belly". You have to see that.
In the series, we are faced with an unexpected turn of events: a negotiator named Sam (played by Idris Elba) finds himself in a critical situation aboard a plane en route from Dubai to London. His motivation is only to return home, and for this he risks everything, entering into a daring confrontation with mysterious invaders.
The inspiration in this story refers us to the usual but effective references from old action movies with Bruce Willis, Van Damme or Steven Seagal: isolated space, extreme uncertainty of events. The antagonists also don’t break the pattern—expressive in their actions and words—but their true motives remain obscure. The main character, in turn, is a classic positive character, ready to act for the benefit of society, but not endowed with the skills of wrestling, shooting and other ways to resist attackers.
The attraction of the main character has an indispensable effect on the viewer. Idris Elba recreates a character with tangible charisma and charm that focuses attention around him, encouraging him to trust him as much inside the plane as outside.
Maintaining tension is a key aspect of these stories, and this is achieved at the highest level. Seven episodes, each lasting an hour, gave a sense of actual time, complementing the plot with many different details: collisions of passengers, the desire to change the current situation, internal strife among the invaders and global efforts outside. This mosaic course of events gives a fascinating plot, and time flies by unnoticed. But in fairness for the sake of the viewer's comment, I fully support the release of the series. It would be better if the series was released at once, it would have a greater effect.
In addition, the creators showed a knack for moving away from two sensitive topics – politics and excessive desire for realism. The plot prefers to leave terrorism unnamed, deflecting attention from international political contradictions, and this choice contributes to the concentration of events on board the aircraft. An unexpected feature is the scene where the characters communicate using a video game, emphasizing the non-standard direction of the plot development.
Captured Flight is a masterfully constructed combination of adrenaline and dynamics. The absence of unnecessary riddles and political details, as well as the emphasis on the charisma of the main character and the formidable tension on board - all this forms the backbone of the series, which is worth respect even in a rich genre environment.
Does everyone in Britain have mass suicide syndrome?
Let me tell you, this film is very infantile. Except as infantile, well, not to name everything that happens: events, characters, the world. It’s as if the whole script was written by a teenager or a person who sees everything through a child’s lens. And the funniest thing is that it is served under a serious "sauce", which immediately causes cognitive dissonance in people who are at least a little trying to understand the logic and adequacy of this work.
If passengers had a tank and a grenade launcher, they would carry it on this flight without problems.
Idris Elba is a wonderful actor who has recently apparently a mania for acting in criminal detectives / thrillers with ideas of mass suicide of people. This is confirmed by the previous film with his participation “Luther: Fallen Sun”. After watching this film and the above, one gets the impression that any Briton should threaten and blackmail a little and he says: 'I tell you to jump, you will jump! I say fight, you fight! If I tell you to die, you will die without talking. Screenwriters apparently decided that blackmail is the best motivation for all inappropriate actions. All the characters in these films are ready to kill themselves.
There is a criminal stealth sniffer in Britain - the police don't know about it, they don't see it, and they slaughter whoever they want.
I will not evaluate the skills of negotiations and the actions of the main character, they are at the same level. It’s just that if the other characters are acting ridiculously, then he acts the same way, but more confidently... and doing stupid things with a confident face means doing stupid things.
- Dispatch, in the plane of emergency!
- Right?
- Exactly!
- Right?
- No, a false alarm.
Something's going on! or it's not happening! suspicious... or not? or yes?
I’m not going to touch on sexism, although it’s obvious. The writer could not beat her, so mostly stuffed men with negative and / or weak qualities of character, and women with positive and / or strong (in his opinion).
- Your civilian plane is heading straight for our capital! He was hijacked and armed men on board! Prove he's not a threat to our country!
- He's no threat.
- Okay.
The show's finale is nothing. Even if you think the series is good, you will be disappointed.
A six-hour flight from Dubai to London is hijacked by terrorists. It's like a disaster movie, lots of it, they're all pretty much the same, but we have a TV show here, so the expectations were more sceptical: what can you show for a few hours about a plane crash? The expectations were met.
And it turns out that you can show a lot of things that are far from related to the main or at least secondary storylines. For example, you can scroll through all the additional characters as pages, while not revealing any. You can turn them from good to bad and vice versa, exactly when the writer or director wants to, without leading to it by any actions or situations.
Pirate invaders do not cause fear or fear, more like a punk band with a manager. Over time, they begin to become not more dangerous and frightening, but rather irritable and fearful. The robbers are moving faster than everyone else. The motives, goals, actions and actions of many characters raise questions. And this applies not only to terrorists, but also to the crew and passengers. You don’t get into characters at all.
There are many absurd situations when, for example, someone does not see something that it is impossible not to see. A lot of protracted shots with pumping music specially tightening the picture.
And like the icing on the cake - an epic fail coup at the end with a contrived entrance to the final. The ending kills all so melting with each series of hopes for something bright.
From the positive can be distinguished Elba, who plays the most rational hero, instantly attracting to his character. Still, he knows how to locate and settle trust in himself, no matter what role he plays. The soundtrack still on the credits perfectly delays the emotions received from the endings of the series.
Unfortunately, this is not enough for a pleasant viewing.
Swallowing through each new series, I tried to figure out: will the story be untied at the end of the last, the 7th? What a stupid format, 7 episodes, neither you nor me. Worse only 6, as in Slow Horses, another Apple+ superhit. But it is ideal for viewing in a pack, just a day or night.
Especially alarming was the penultimate approach, when they explained at least roughly who was behind the theft. Eer — thought me and Peter Ivanovich — such makar not even the fact that by the end of the season they will fly, not to mention untie, or there to cut all the knots.
Come on, you got it! And even so beautiful, elegant, with floods and gasps, already admired. I was especially pleased that due to a combination of circumstances, people of big business (first class aircraft) played for both good and bad. There's something about it.
As in the fact that between the impact of muscle strength or the power of words clearly preference for the second: several times we will be shown that GG is stronger and more dexterous than the leader of the hijackers, but he succeeds not with his fists, but with his brain and conviction. I could've put it in the snout, though. But professional
Well, the bonus was the regular camera hovering over different areas of central London, after all, of all the cities visited in the world, this one conquered me the most. The authors of the British capital turned out to be something especially beautiful.
Sam Nelson, a professional business negotiator and highly successful specialist in his field, flies from Dubai to London on a British airline flight.
The duration of the flight is about seven hours, on board 216 people, including the crew. Almost immediately after takeoff, the plane is captured by unknown persons. They make no demands, so no one on earth knows what happened.
This is the case when I would like to write in more detail, but not necessary. It's worth a look. I didn’t really believe that the series, albeit mini, where almost all the action takes place in an enclosed space, would be complete and without sagging. In the "Captured Flight" it was quite successful. I especially liked that there are no clichéd techniques, when each passenger, necessarily with pathos and tears, talks about a trip with cakes to his beloved grandmother or the upcoming marriage. There are no personal stories of the characters, the plot is focused on the action, the rest, if the situation requires, is shown in dotted. At some point in the sixth series, I just thought that the action deflated, and suddenly boom, there was a new turn.
Of course, it wasn't without a spoonful of tar. The first thing that raised questions was the behavior of the heroine who discovered a suspicious object. What would a person find this on a plane do? If he's not 6 years old, he'll probably let the flight attendant know. A child can hide small things to show off to friends later, but calling a stranger, a passenger, is nonsense to me. On the other hand, it would have to rewrite the script.
The second is related to the main character and his family. Here the creators allowed themselves some sentiments, completely without continuing the line. Why it was, why, and remained a mystery. Everything else is fine, I recommend it.
This series is strange and bad, and strangely bad almost everything. Starting with the casting.
Is Idris Elba a corporate negotiator? He looks, talks, walks and moves like an actor of action movies, detectives and space shooters. Are you a corporate negotiator?
His wife, a well-groomed black model, plays a physics professor. Well, of course, that's what all physics professors look like, how nicely aging photo models are. It was painful when the actress, as in the exam, hardly said a joke about Schrödinger's cat.
The story and the script are missing. It begins with absurdities, it happens stupidly, and it ends in complete meaninglessness.
The only thing I can't say is that all the dubious, negative characters in this film are white European men. The 'terrible gang' terrorizing Britain is of course white men. They have long been known for terrorizing London and the surrounding area.
All positive, intelligent - either black, female, or black women (most positive). All characters are neatly placed on a political racial agenda.
All the white European men in the film (including the main villains) are hesitant, stupid, hesitant, deluded, hysterical, angry, mistaken, duplicitous.
The funniest character in the movie, I think, is the woman the writers want to portray as a positive character. She is played by Eve Miles, a disheveled lying mother who is always late for work (airline dispatcher!!!), for which an angry white male boss makes remarks. But she is the only one who knows that something is wrong with this flight, and she is being listened to by the prime minister’s office and the interior minister. She's sitting in her workplace at Heathrow Airport, investigating what's going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All dispatchers usually handle investigations.
Another aspect of the series is ethical issues. They are put in the film fantastically hilarious. For example, a woman who has a child captured kills a pilot and hijacks a plane with the aim of directing him to densely populated areas of London. The Home Secretary (white, duplicitous, cynical because white male) promises her forgiveness and no prosecution. After the release of the plane by special forces, she goes out with passengers, she is not even handcuffed, but instead comforted by her tears. Well, yes, old woman, she can't be judged. Or the decision of the female foreign secretary (Hattie Morahan) to let the hijacked plane fly to London to kill 3 times as many people.
All of this is an amazing cocktail of absurdities. Thank you, that was very funny.
Passengers on the Dubai-London flight did not expect anything bad from the next seven hours. As long as you settle down in your place, you will meet your neighbors, have a snack, and have a poke – already your native Britain is under your feet.
But it didn’t work out, I guess.
And now the ill-fated flight under the control of people with weapons, whose goals are unknown to anyone on board.
And only a frowny and tired Sam, whose talents lie in the field of negotiations, can try to save not only himself, but also the other two hundred passengers. Maybe something more.
The stories related to aviation cinema gave us immensely. From classic aircraft captures to intricate thrillers and natural fiction.
Hijack, like any self-respecting stool, stands on three legs.
The first is the main character.
Sam Nelson (Elba). Elba gets a lot of time here, making another significant application for entry into the Cinema People cohort. Those who can be watched for hours on the screen, regardless of what they do there (the most striking example is Tikhonov). His Sam is immersed in himself and does not want to come out too much. But when he does, it becomes clear where he got his first-class pennants and a fancy apartment in London, and why he is considered one of the best corporate negotiators. He is intelligent, observant and attentive, thorough and does not take rash steps. Magnificently uses all the brimstones of the science of psychology, from creating a favorable image and rubbing into trust. Before scattering hints and grains of doubt in the enemy camp. Subtle work with the subconscious and consciousness of the opponent. Sam is not a saint at all. Makes mistakes, can fail, sometimes takes excessive risks. And with the beloved woman somehow did not go well.
The second is a bunch of storylines, both on the ground and in the sky.
Most of the time, we'll be clear on board Flight 29. Here we are waiting for the central protagonist and his opponents, led by Stewart (Maskell). The most intense events, the most insidious trials for heroes. Dangerous vicissitudes emanating from both terrorists and conditionally good guys living on lands over which our silent ghost with wings floats. Exciting struggle for survival at gunpoint.
The “celestial” arch is complemented by landscapes of London and charming paintings of the aircraft in height, shot from different angles (the ocean of clouds under the wings is really beautiful).
In addition, we will be endowed with a line of Arab dispatchers (I advise not to get too attached to them). Their British counterparts, with the witty and optional Alice (Miles). Sam's ex-wife, having an affair with a detective, and a teenage son. Crisis headquarters of special services with the whole Minister of Foreign Affairs and the detective-lover of the ex-wife of GG. The purifiers and other associates of evildoers on Earth.
After all, the third leg of our stool becomes intrigue around the goals of the invaders and the overall picture of their operation. And this very picture does not appear immediately. Why do they keep the Mkhatov pause for so long, what do they really want? It is unclear who their earthly allies are. One thing is clear - the guys are not easy and there will be plenty of surprises.
The overall tension is maintained at level, although active action would not seem to be gardens. There are nice cliffhangers available. Confused conclusions about the omnipotence of organized crime even in the prosperous West. Irony about the difference between the first class with its royal flight conditions and other plebs, huddled "in cramped rather than offended."
It is worth noting that secondary characters come across colorful, but on the background of the Elbe are poorly remembered. Part of the lines and personalities from among the passengers are accented, outlined, then sagging in the void. Not very well.
Further, for all the advantages of the project, it is pretty long, in fact we observe the flight and fuss on Earth in real time. 7 hours in the air, 7 episodes of 45-50 minutes. Time-stretched conversations and sufferings of the good and the bad. You could be more modest.
The goals of capture, revealed over time, are also somewhat disappointing. Bigger Lilliputs were expected. But that's it.
There is no need to talk about the realism of what is happening. But this kind of thriller we appreciate not for the truth of life.
Ergo. An intense, albeit fairly drawn-out thriller with pleasantly intertwined storylines and a quality GG.
I’m already used to the fact that lately Apple TV often pleases viewers with quite good projects like “Ted Lasso”, “Separation” or the same “Shelter”, which ended during the release of the first series of the new thriller series “Captured Flight”.
Plot. Unknown hijack a plane carrying out a seven-hour flight from Dubai to London. While the rest of the people are overwhelmed by fear, making them worry about their “beloved”, Sam Nelson decides to find out the motives of the criminals and resolve the conflict on board. It's not an easy task, but Sam is a negotiator. (please use bold words)
The creators of the series, as befits a good thriller, skillfully keep the viewer in suspense throughout each series due to the many twists and difficult choices facing different people.
There’s not much to say about actors, because that’s okay. Each person is perfectly matched to his character, as if they first found people, and only then wrote characters. I really liked the actress who played one of the hijackers. Well, Idris Elba superski endured this seven-hour journey.
Conclusion: this picture is not about a hijacked flight, but about people who find themselves in a difficult life situation, about the influence of fear on their actions, about the ability to negotiate and achieve their own without pulling the trigger of a gun.
8 out of 10
Dubai, these days. Sam Nielsen boards Kingdom Flight 29. He is a shark of the corporate world, a mergers and acquisitions consultant with an IQ of 500+, able to convince you that you are not you, but a sentient slime from the planet Rumba. With his ex-wife, he really does not succeed, but women are like that.
Nevertheless, our hero is full of optimism and flies to her in London. However, the flight does not promise to be boring, because soon the plane is captured by strange types with pistols (the girl is cute!), trying to break into the cockpit, and at the same time take away the phones from passengers. Sam, of course, is the only one of more than two hundred people on board to write something while the property is being seized. And here he fully manifests his powerful intelligence. What would stupid people like you and me write? "Airplane hijacked, call the police?" But Sam's not like that. He knows perfectly well that he is a character of a stupid series and must move the plot. So he says, "There's an incident on board." Serious. But I'll handle it. I love you. I love it very much. And really, let them scratch their heads on the ground what kind of incident this is. Maybe a drunk passenger had a fight with the stewards or someone called Sam a forbidden word on the N? Well, then, yeah, a big guy will figure it out. There will be plenty of screen time.
While the earth is bustling, Sam will put all the power of his mind to his opponents. Fortunately, these are the dumbest hijackers in history, and they don’t know why they’re here, what to do, or what’s going on. So we are waiting for a cool intellectual spectacle, categorically contraindicated for people with an IQ above 70.
I have a feeling that Apple TV+ projects are sculpted according to the standard scheme. Take a fashionable theme, take a fashionable actor, and the script ... yes, in LA script every taxi driver writes! We'll put up an ad at the nearest diner and get people for a pack of chips. And now seven taxi writers began to create ...
And I'm not going to scold the show for being absolutely implausible in terms of the realities of civil aviation. Real pilots and air traffic controllers have already explained everything on the known resource. However, we still have an art project, not a documentary, so fine.
But the plot does not withstand criticism even in terms of the logic of the work of art. He's ridiculous and absurd. My IQ is a little over 70 and I went through the project just out of curiosity – what nonsense will they come up with? I admit, taxi writers are familiar with the basics of drama. So the level of cretinism increases with each episode and reaches the hurricane mark in the finale. If suddenly one of the characters and do something reasonable, rest assured – the next appearance in the frame, he will correct this error! And although I will not poison you with spoilers, I will give you one example.
Let’s say that you are a supervillain of international scale and have embarked on a complex operation that will bring you 100,500 billion dollars. And what you do when you just have to write – close the deal! Shoot your partner in the head and just leave. And the money? Why do you need them? You're a supervillain, and you've been craving that fact. And what’s even funnier, it’s not even the dumbest moment in the series!
In short, it remains only to repeat for the hundredth time that the main thing in the movie is the Scenario! No one can do anything without him. Including Elba. Yes, he is a good actor, but what will he show you? Just sit with a smart look and hint that one day his hero will still do a miracle. There is nothing to say about the rest of the characters. They are clearly on the principle – wholesale cheaper. And everything here is... wretched.
One thing struck me to the core – where are LGBT people? What kind of violation of all the Great Principles on Apple TV+? It is only in the bowels of the film industry that a conspiracy is brewing...
There are series that you can watch playing some World of Tanks or passing another French lesson. The hijacked flight is not from that genre. Every second of the story is important here. This is a story with no gaps. 6 hours flight of the hijacked plane. We're kind of used to long sagas stretching the narrative for years. But the really interesting stories are, 'Don't think of seconds down... moments like bullets to your temple.'
If someone is frightened that the action is localized, then in vain. A lot of things happen outside the plane. But the most interesting thing is inside. And there are a lot of heroes. This is almost all the passengers of the flight, each in its own way. These are ordinary people who are trying to save the flight.
This is a story about leadership and teamwork. How people interact with each other, how a leader behaves is the most modern textbook on organizing horizontal connections in a team. How to work in stressful situations, how to negotiate. And most importantly, how to overcome fear. There is much to learn here.
This is also a story about how an intelligent woman can choose the right men.
There is not a single passing acting job. Even minor characters are fascinating.
The plot of the new series from Apple TV, frankly speaking, does not inspire confidence, as they say, from the very first lines of the script, when, looking into the bathroom, the girl finds on the floor a pistol cartridge left by someone when visiting the toilet cabin of the airliner, half an hour ago headed for the British capital, where he puffed a little more than six hours, which now threaten to be the last for his unarmed passengers.
So, perhaps, calculated the creators of the evil intent that sent a group of hapless villains with an uncertain mission aboard an air bus, rightly believing that words, supported by the bottomless glance of a crowed barrel, do more than one word, and this was their main miscalculation, because in the business class, incidentally, returned home a man who perfectly knew the power of the only true word.
Fans of militants are extremely not recommended: the main protagonist in the guise of Idris Elba is a calm, unflappable, balanced person - absolutely not prone to climbing, avoiding questions about his profession, the essence of which, as it turns out a little later, is the ability to speak teeth to his opponents in business or, as it happened now, bad guys who think hard because of the coming circumstances, changing the originally calculated plan of their attack.
The main character, Sam Nielsen, is the pivot of the pyramid, on which the rings of other characters and events unfold inside the cabin of the plane and on the ground, where they have already made it known, having puzzled the wife of a professional chatterer, 00X agents and political men, who serve here as not God’s news of what background to the play of words, combining persuasion and persuasiveness, patience and endurance, allowing the craftsman to control the situation at a time when it seems that someone else is controlling it – so that, we can say, the writers’s bet bet bet on an intellectual thriller goes quite successfully, again, if they are not radical supporters of pedal methods.
Inside the story there is a lot of familiar and recognizable, both in the faces and behavior of stupid and not too prudent people, who, in general, for the most part, reflect a commonality of the sameness, whether it is the family of the manipulator, colleagues or fellow travelers. As a noticeable flaw – the moment that a brilliant talker for some reason could not convince his ex, that, however, the writers explain the natural-scientific mindset of a physics professor (who exchanged a smart guy for a policeman), whose partnership enriched the method of chattering with an experimental idea about a cat Schrödinger (no wonder he will say that he was lucky with his wife) – a pinch of quantum dust in the eyes of a pretentious audience.
With such a background and the main character can be counted for the cat Schrödinger, who is neither alive nor dead, together with all the passenger brethren is enclosed in a box of a wide fuselage, where it is absolutely not clear what will happen next, who will be bitten by a mad fly and where the bullet will fly from a hollow - all will die or sit together at the destination - in terms of uncertainty there is complete order, and the ridiculous fuss in the background can not discourage the desire to see the end, as well as the one who planned it all, for what and why.