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- 2020
- R
- Amazon Studios
- 1 h 33 m
- 2020
- R
- Amazon Studios
- 1 h 33 m
Summary It looks like a routine day at work for Tobias, a soft-spoken young American co-pilot on a flight from Berlin to Paris as he runs through the preflight checklist with Michael, the pilot, and chats with Gökce, his flight-attendant girlfriend. But shortly after takeoff, terrorists armed with makeshift knives suddenly storm the cockpit, ser...
Directed By: Patrick Vollrath
Written By: Senad Halilbasic, Patrick Vollrath
- 2020
- R
- Amazon Studios
- 1 h 33 m
- 2020
- R
- Amazon Studios
- 1 h 33 m
7500
58
6.2
Where to Watch
Summary It looks like a routine day at work for Tobias, a soft-spoken young American co-pilot on a flight from Berlin to Paris as he runs through the preflight checklist with Michael, the pilot, and chats with Gökce, his flight-attendant girlfriend. But shortly after takeoff, terrorists armed with makeshift knives suddenly storm the cockpit, ser...
Directed By: Patrick Vollrath
Written By: Senad Halilbasic, Patrick Vollrath
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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48% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
52% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
58
48% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
52% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
In an era marked by omnipresent terror and universal doom, 7500 sparks fear and soothes anxiety in the same breath. Although the film utilizes violence as its foundation, 7500 promotes the idea that heroes exist everywhere, proving that, even amid turbulent opposition, survival, and endurance are sometimes the bravest acts people can ever accomplish.
You wouldn’t exactly call it fun or enjoyable, but it’s a thriller that does what it sets out to do, which is to make you uncomfortable and then wring you dry. And if you’re feeling cooped up being stuck at home, well, the proceedings here could make the smallest apartment feel spacious.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 45 User Ratings
6.2
51% Positive
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
36% Mixed
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
13% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 45 User Ratings
6.2
51% Positive
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
36% Mixed
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
13% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
This is one well-made thriller, and for a director who wants to work in that genre, this is as strong a first feature as any filmmaker could hope for.
For its first half, 7500 is briskly effective in a cold-sweat sort of way, carrying its audience from a smooth takeoff to the first signs of disturbance to swiftly cranked all-out terror with the kind of nervy efficiency you can admire without exactly taking pleasure in it. In more ways than one, however, Vollrath’s technically adroit film has trouble sticking the landing.
Unfortunately, not even Gordon-Levitt’s stellar work can sustain a well-made but ultimately underwhelming docudrama from first-time German writer-director Patrick Vollrath.
Intended as a 90-minute nail-biter, the movie starts off strong but loses steam about halfway through and never quite recovers.
For fans of joyless screaming and stabbing, there might be something here worth your time but for those who expect more thrills from their thrillers or at least something close to a purpose, 7500 is a flight worth missing.
Excellent movie - realistic and tense, yet not made in the Hollywood style, which might be off-putting for less discerning viewers. Negative comments of "7500" come in the guise of feigned political correctness and personal dislike of pace (ridiculous) or action in that there is too much screaming and banging on the door - I guess the reality would be that one should politely ask that the cockpit door be opened (and not insist at that), and that the infliction of wounds should be accompanied by "I strongly object that you stab me with the glass knife", but only once and in the quieten voice. True connoisseurs of action movies will like "7500".
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Eine Stärke des Films ist die stetige Spannung, die der Film halten kann. Die Schwäche ist der Realismus. Weder kann ein Cockpit so leicht gestürmt werden, noch sind die Reaktionen des Pilotes (und nicht mal des Attentäters) realistisch.
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Gordon-Levitt proves to be convincing and credible, unfortunately for him, the story soon falls into bumps and cliches that easily show the shortcomings of its narrative device.
Also the imbalance between the elements of suspense and drama, not only make it unconvincing, they make it look constructed in a very convenient way in order to make it more functional and that's why the film never manages to go for everything, especially because it never seems to be sure of the path in which it should step on the accelerator.
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Production Company
Augenschein Filmproduktion,
Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion GmbH,
FilmNation Entertainment,
Endeavor Content,
Südwestrundfunk (SWR),
Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR),
Arte France Cinéma,
Film AG Produktion,
Leonine Studios,
Luna Filmverleih,
Polyphony Digital
Release Date Jun 18, 2020
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating R
Awards
Austrian Film Award, AT
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Hamburg Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
