Interesting aerospace And yet it is not for nothing that Abrahams and Zuckers ridiculed all the disaster films of that time in their “Aeroplane”. This genre slipped into such a deep hole in the 80s that it began to re-emerge on the big screens only in the mid-90s. Although now he again began to slide back, the release of the film “2012” only confirmed this.
In 1983, "Starflight One" was released. The film is paradoxical: too cheap for such a genre, but too expensive for a simple TV movie.
The plot is simple and banal: Starflight One in one cloudless night must make a test flight from the west coast of America to Sydney, in Australia, in about an hour or more. Naturally, Starflight is not a simple aircraft, but a hypersonic aircraft flying at the border between the atmosphere and space at great speed. Simultaneously with the launch of the aircraft, a NASA rocket is launched, on board of which there is a satellite. However, the missile fails and risks falling back to the ground, so it has to be detonated. Missile debris is flying towards the plane.
And then begins the classic of the genre – “Burning Hell”, the scene of which was moved from a skyscraper to a plane that climbed into space and lost control. Countless attempts are made to save the passengers and the plane, but they all fail. The terrible predictability of the film is overshadowed by mediocre, but worth watching at once, acting, as well as all sorts of clichés: “dead hero”, the general developer of Starflight, on the move coming up with all sorts of rescue plans, whiny mistresses and more.
Sometimes boring, sometimes stretched, sometimes delirious, and sometimes sparkling. There was no way I could give the film an unambiguous score that ranged anywhere between 3 and 6. However, the only thing that looked more than good in the film was the special effects. Good special effects for the TV movie (from the 80s, of course), which kept me until the end of the film. Beautiful views of the Earth and ships are attached. It's worth watching the movie for once.
As I mentioned, it was one of the last films of the Golden Age of Disasters. And thank God. But in my opinion, this is by far the best disaster film ever made for television.
Unfortunately:
6 out of 10