Gerard Butler is back in action man mode as Brodie Torrance, a commercial airline pilot. When flying from Singapore to Honolulu via Tokyo, his plane suffers damage from a storm in the South China Sea and he is forced to land his plane in the Philippines. He ventures into the jungle to find help not knowing that the island is run by a lawless separatist militia.
I have a lot of time for Butler. He has a track record of starring in unpretentious action movies that are more often hits than misses, and Plane is exactly that. The initial scenes as he pilots the plane are convincingly tense, and once on the ground the action purrs along nicely thanks to director Jean-Francois Richet. The script by Charles Cumming, best known for his spy novels, is better than you might expect from a genre picture like this.
The story rattles along and all the performances are fine, though it would have been good if Daniella Pineda’s steward character had been given more to do.
A non-gulity pleasure!
Rating: 8 out of 10