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80An excellent job of retaining key elements of the original plot but have created a whole new set of characters that gives the film an entirely contemporary feel.
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80This is high-carb filmmaking at its finest. When it's all over, you'll have a knot in your stomach.
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75Effective action, solid suspense, excellent Ribisi, plus enough clichés to equal the grains of Gobi sand that fill the screen.
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75Refreshingly, it's actually about action, albeit arbitrary action, and how it defines us and keeps us alive.
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70The old-fashioned theme of disaster as an existential test of character still works.
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67Ends up feeling like the sort of leisurely man's-man adventure movie you used to be able to catch on Sunday afternoon TV.
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63The action is thrilling enough.
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60With his bleached-blond hair, implacable European accent, and nerdy devotion to cool rationality, Ribisi acts like a cross between a young Reich officer and the Comic Book Guy from "The Simpsons," and his unashamed hamminess steals the movie.
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50While it certainly looks swell thanks to director John Moore's striking visuals, the wings of this rebuilt "Phoenix" have been clipped by generic scripting and a short supply of dramatic tension.
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50Because I had, in a sense, already seen this movie, it didn't have surprises or suspense for me, and the actors on their own aren't enough to save it.
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50It's a shame that no one involved with Flight of the Phoenix knew what a hit phenomenon "Lost" would be, or else they might have taken greater care in developing the challenges this crew would face.
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50So what's the point of doing it a second time if you can't make it more realistic?
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50This new low-octane version is hardly going to make anyone forget Robert Aldrich's semi-classic, testosterone-laden original starring Jimmy Stewart.
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50While still trumpeting human ingenuity, the new movie lacks the subtlety, character development and exceptional ensemble acting of the 1965 version.
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50There's nothing like dumbing down a movie grown-ups love so it can be "sold" to teens who aren't going to go anyway. The savvy flyer will proceed to the gate marked The "Aviator" instead.
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50Silly to the last drop of rationed water.
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50But, in the end, it may be that man against sand isn't as thrilling as it was back in the day.
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50This Phoenix screams hack job.
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This half-hearted, half-witted remake of Robert Aldrich's compelling 1965 tale of survival, ingenuity, and teamwork generates no heat.
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50Shows both how far Hollywood's tech departments have advanced in 40 years and how shallow the pool of solid action thesps has become.
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40The first-act crash is admittedly spectacular and the ending adequately suspenseful, but what comes between is disappointingly routine and completely lacks the kind character complexity that made the original a thrill every step of the way.
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40The whole film appears over-blown and pumped up on marketing steroids.
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40By the end, though, it's all too much what it seems, a literalist adventure with a socko "Twilight Zone" twist that's finally too little, too late.
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38This clunky remake can't rise from the ashes, nor would you want it to.
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38This remake replaces suspense with boredom and witty dialogue with lame lines any self-respecting actor should be embarrassed to utter.
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38The countdown begins with the first negative integer — an amped-up score that overpowers the proceedings like a bad band at a high-school dance.
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25It's a botched job...the new "Phoenix" lacks the very things that made the old one special.
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20A moth-eaten stranded-in-the-desert yarn that throws in every cheap trick in the manual to pump up your heartbeat, is so manipulative that the involuntary jolts of adrenaline it produces make you feel like a fool.
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