Turbulence (IV) (2016) User Reviews

Story-10 execution-5

[imdb_girl90 · 6/10 · 25 August 2019]

I absolutely loved the story. The flight scenes especially the one who kept the agent hostage- she was super amazing. The stuffs of keeping the family hostage on ground went too weak. Say: When the FBI gets a hint of the family being hostage, you come as an FBI agent and ask if everything is ok? So dumb. You alerted the bad guy if there is any. 'Exercise it cautiously' not done that way! Or when Ken says his son is in school to play his finals, you could have done a cross-check and would have found out he isn't in school but is hostage. And the flight scene where she wanted to sneak the phone to send a mail ? She alerted the bad girl there too so clearly. I mean all these things went too weak. Could have done better.

Not all that bad, not all good

[LetsReviewThat26 · 5/10 · 30 August 2023]

Turbulence, or deadly departer is a film starring Dina Meyer as Sarah, a woman that gets on a flight to DC, then shalama from mutant X Tells her she has her family hostage. I will say at the beginning I thought I was watching the wrong movie. This older gentleman is on a beach with a lady. Stuff happens then we get title card and it's qué the bad acting straight away. The father and son actors being the characters of question here. The beginning is connected but it's not really sure why. The way it's solved is dumb. Also pretty sure a camcorder with no lead cannot upload a live video to a laptop on a flight. Acting and script were bad. Plot was throwaway but overall lik others of this genre it was watchable and I still got some enjoyment from it.

Not bad, not great

[mjanssens26 · 6/10 · 1 November 2021]

This is an okay Lifetime or Hallmark thriller which I caught on Prime. The lead women are great and overall, though we've seen "family taken hostage" films many times before, this one is a decent example for the genre. Not rating this as a film ready for theaters, but for a TV movie, it's what you'd expect in terms of quality.

Exceptionally bad...

[Pieter050 · 2/10 · 11 June 2020]

I don't even know where to begin. Other reviewers have already been so thoughtful to describe the massive amount of plot holes and inconsistencies. The acting (and I use the term very loosely) reminds me of a non-rehearsed production of an elementary school. Chris Jai Alex as the Air Marshall is the only one who's doing a convincing job. According to this film, FBI agents are clueless amateurs. The dialogues are cringeworthy and delivered even worse than written. Have I mentioned the highly annoying 'music'? Written to emphasise drama but as there isn't any drama, it's completely useless. Perhaps this film was made for Kindergarten students?

Not worth it

[Asterix83 · 1/10 · 10 August 2019]

A great story ruined by a very poor script, bad direction and pathetic acting (except that of Victoria Pratt). With a much better script, direction and cast, this could have been a winner!

Speechless

[taifidler · 1/10 · 21 July 2018]

There was nothing to this film except boring clichés and mediocrity. The acting, the plot, the direction, the dubbing (I watched in italian), the dialogue... nothing above second-rate and dim. The implausibility of the dialogues (scattered with improbable pauses and unbearably dull and emotionless expressions) and total disconnect from reality of the settings and overall environment left me honestly flabbergasted. I seriously hope a 7 year old scripted and approved the financing of this movie because the professionalism and creativity is just not there.

Not even enjoyable for a trash film's standard. Total waste of time.

Good suspense thriller, despite plot holes

[mgconlan-1 · 7/10 · 8 January 2017]

Lifetime's second movie showing last night was considerably better than their first: it was "Turbulence," a.k.a. "Flight 192," written and directed by Nadeem Soumah, and, despite some pretty preposterous plot twists, it was played for suspense rather than shock and worked better on all levels than "Under the Bed." Sarah Plummer (Dina Meyer) is the head of a major department in the FBI's Los Angeles office; her husband Ken (Nick Baillie, a considerably better-looking man than usually cast as the male leads in Lifetime movies!) built a small IT startup into one of the world's major computer companies; and when the story begins their 12-year-old son Jacob (Cole Carter) is about to play in the finals of his school's baseball team's annual competition. Only Sarah gets called to Washington, D.C. on the eve of the game because she has to take over the case of Senator Johnson (Brent A. McCoy), a sixty-something scapegrace legislator bearing a striking resemblance to the older Fred Astaire. It seems that Johnson, whose wife has lost all interest in him and spends all her evenings getting drunk on the vintage wines she collects, went out to a party with a bunch of hot 20-somethings and got one of them to get into his red Corvette and let him drive her to a beach, where they frolicked in the sand but she drew back on actually putting out sexually for him. So in a bizarre combination of frustration and anger he strangled her and left her dead body on the beach. Only he was caught in the act by a nearby security camera which filmed the whole thing. The gimmick is the security camera footage is the only evidence against him — with it he's bats-burgers but if he can get it to disappear … So he calls in a sinister organization of "fixers" designed to help the super-rich and super-powerful out of jams like this, and its two members (at least the two we see) are Michelle Taylor (Victoria Pratt), a blonde with a chillingly off-hand affect who chats up Sarah on Flight 192 of the fictitious "AirPacific" airline, and Cameron (Justin Johnson, easily the hottest guy in the movie even though Baillie is better looking than the normal casting for a Lifetime husband). Michelle tells Sarah — and shows surveillance footage of her home to prove it — that Cameron is holding Sarah's husband and son hostage and will kill them unless Sarah goes into the FBI database and erases every copy of the damning surveillance video. There are several problems with that — including the fact that the FBI would back up something like that up the ying-yang and wouldn't give one agent, no matter how high up in the hierarchy, access to all the extant copies; also the FBI originally got the video from the Los Angeles Police Department, and one would think the LAPD would retain its own copy, especially since despite the FBI's involvement it's still a murder committed within Los Angeles's jurisdiction. Nonetheless, despite the far-fetched aspects of some of Soumah's plot, he directs the film effectively and gets some great suspense effects — he even manages the rare feat of making work on a computer dramatically interesting. "Turbulence" is a quite good thriller, not especially interesting in terms of social comment but fun as sheer entertainment and generally well acted by heroes and villains alike.

Shockingly bad

[jackdavid-19318 · 1/10 · 8 December 2021]

Could have been great, if they had aby clue how to put a film together. One second theyre on a small plane with 4 windows and by the time its landed it has gained an extra 6 windows. Then it 9am on the guys phone, but in a blink on an eye and one phone call later its suddenly night time, ive seen better plays in my children's school, more convincing acting anyways! Absolutely awful how many flaws are in this "film"

Late night TV grade insomnia special

[bitbucketchip · 3/10 · 23 May 2022]

A dirtbag senator kills a woman, and all that stands between him and acquittal, we're to believe, is a clear video of him murdering the girl. The quick-witted senator comes up with a foolproof plan: have an FBI agent delete the video and he'll get off scott free!

Sure he will.

The video in unequivocal and has been seen by dozens of people. Even without the video they can all attest to what they saw. Ooops. The senator wasn't wearing gloves and touched the girl in various places on her body. DNA. Ooops. People saw the two of them leave together. Ooops. Even without the video the case against the senator is compelling.

Fitting the plot is the terrible acting. Dina Meyer plays an FBI agent with zero skills or training. She's a helpless victim the entire run of the movie. She deduces that the kidnappers aren't going to let her family go regardless, not to mention she herself has seen a kidnapper's face, yet she complies with their demands anyway. How stupid is she? If they're sentenced to die, grab Victoria, beat the location out of her, call the cavalry, and hold her as hostage. Victoria Pratt is her usual unconvincing self. Nothing to see here. The woman can't act. Everyone else gives a soap opera or lower grade performance.

Three stars for a movie with three sets.

***1/2

[edwagreen · 9/10 · 10 January 2017]

A very good thriller with an FBI agent on board a plane bound for Washington where she will give evidence that a senator killed a young girl during a drunken evening out with her. While on the plane, our agent learns that the woman next to her is holding her hostage so that she can destroy the incriminating evidence against the senator. To make things worse, her family has been kidnapped by the fiends and they shall do just about anything to get their way.

When it appears that the agent has gotten the upper hand on the fiend next to her, the latter changes identities and the agent winds up arrested. How she corrects the situation and goes after the guy holding her wounded husband and young son is riveting.

Worst movie of all time

[royprasun-29899 · 1/10 · 19 May 2021]

There are a few home videos by amateur videographers that are better than this travesty. Every character in this movie behaves as if they never read the script and if they did then they didn't use an iota of their brain to question the useless script. Who in their right mind blackmails a trained FBI agent aboard a plane full of passengers, who my gosh have no problem watching a passenger assault another passenger.

There are better things you can do with your time such as Watch the grass grow or ants build an ant hill. Just don't watch this movie.

Are you kidding me

[jnlstaggs · 1/10 · 16 August 2021]

More proof that all hollyweird can do is remake a movie.

Outstanding movie

[dimpy-16287 · 10/10 · 18 November 2019]

Its an outstanding movie. Well made, well thought about. The curiosity really builds up because of the actions in the flight. A must watch, binge worthy moviefor a perfect weekend!

Very nice thriller

[singharajeshwar · 10/10 · 11 August 2019]

People who are rating it below 5 definitely need a psychiatrist. It is an outstanding thriller which keeps you at the edge of your seat till the end.

Could have been better

[zacheusp · 8/10 · 9 April 2021]

I do not know why people are rating this thriller less than 5. I found this very fast moving and good edge of the seat thriller.. Of course there are many loopholes.. But, if you forget the loopholes, then you can definitely enjoy this thriller.