Skybound (2017)

You won't be disappointed!

Brilliant and touching

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Is there ANYONE in the entertainment industry who DIDN'T sleep through every high school science class he or she ever took? I've seen movies that violate the laws of physics like Harvey Weinstein violates aspiring actresses. "Crack in the Earth" comes to mind, as does "The Core", the latter being probably the worst offender ever put on film. This movie doesn't quite sink to the depths of the Earth like "The Core" (which is why I didn't give it a 1 rating), but budget-dollar-for-budget-dollar it's definitely in the same league. I couldn't spot a single instance of scientific accuracy, physical, medical, aeronautical or otherwise, in the entire movie.I wanted to like this movie. I really did. I figured I'd just turn my brain off and enjoy. The acting was bad but tolerable--at first. I was hoping for a good reason why an airplane would be unable to land while flying all the way across the country. Well, as soon as I saw a WATER FOUNTAIN inside an aircraft-and operating during take-off!--I knew that this movie was going to be a disaster, rather than being a disaster movie. Air temperature soaring on approach to Chicago, with no preceding shockwave or any other phenomenon associated with some kind of explosive event, and over a huge area for an extended time? Venting cabin air in-flight (and venting to get rid of some alleged hallucinogen that affects everyone with EXACTLY the same hallucination!)? A diabetic somehow dying within minutes of losing his pill supply (not even insulin)? Chopping off an operational engine with a hand axe?!?!? On and on and on it went, all the way to the final scene. Which I thought was going to mimic "Lost". At least they didn't go that route. (The actual explanation of what happened made a certain amount of sense IMHO.) And others have discussed the unlikely, not to mention unlikeable, characters.You could almost-ALMOST-view this as a comedy, especially if you are a fan of "Animal House". The older brother's rah-rah-let's-do-it! speech was so reminiscent of Bluto's pep talk to the Delts that I expected him to refer to the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor. This movie may have been better off if he had. It may also have been better off if it had been dropped into Pearl Harbor itself before fooling a single viewer into consuming 80 minutes of his or her life watching it.The only reason I can think of to watch this movie is to test yourself on how much scientific foolishness you can identify in a single viewing. Otherwise, you're better off watching "Plan 9 from Outer Space" or "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes".

This movie starts off with bad acting clearly apparent.My first thought was the lead actress was pretty but didn't know anything about acting. I looked her up, Scarlett Byrne, expecting this to be her first movie only to be very surprised that she is an experienced actress.Then I noticed that a few others were acting badly and thought it must just be a bad director and a small budget.Then things started to happen in the plot that made next to no sense.As it continued it became more and more absurd. It continued getting funnier and funnier as it became less and less plausible.For example: The stowaway, Morten Suurballe, says the bottles of pills that are found hidden away, nowhere near his reach, aren't hallucinogens. He needs them to stay alive. Literally 1 minute after they flush them down the toilet he is in a coma and is dead in minutes! Another example: At one point someone asks the supporting actress, Carla Pimentel, if aluminum on the skin of an airplane would protect them from the radiation fall-out of a nuclear bomb - to which she answers she doesn't know. A few scenes later she is doing a calculation with pen and paper, which includes wind speed that is somehow available from instruments that have failed, to determine how far they need to fly to escape the fall-out. :) Seriously this is hilarious and gets funnier and funnier the more you watch - right up to the end of the movie.I nominate this as one of the best Turkey Time movies of all-time.

20% of those who voted gave this movie 10. Surely it's time IMDb cleaned up its act and stopped this kind of nonsense."This dinner party of terror" scenario reminded me of films like Tarantino's Hateful Eight" or Hitchcock's Rope". " one 10 review boasted. In what way did this remind me of such brilliant cinema. Well it had a beginning and an end and that's it.This film is not even good enough to achieve zero.Sock puppets can act better than the cast. You could have gotten half a dozen drunks off the street and they could have produced a better performance.The plot grew more ridiculous with every scene. Scientific inaccuracies abound. A chimp on crack could come up with a better story.Take notice of the real reviews on here and avoid wasting any time on this garbage. You can easily find them they gave this less than 3.

I wrote a long review for this movie, then I deleted it and wrote this:the technical aspects of the movie, both flight related and medically related are farcical. Ludicrous and often delivered by what appears to be cardboard cut outs of over acting monotonic dummies.the pretense of the movie is just outright stupid, only made worse by the fact that the circumstances are reinforced during a cell phone conversation with one of the cardboard cut outs fathers.the technical elements regarding the aircraft are both wrong for almost every reference made, and insanely hilarious for the most part. And, by the way, delivered by yet other cardboard cut outs that clearly lacked the benefit of any technical advisors on set (probably because the $50 budget didn't stretch to it!).I normally do not slam a movie as badly as this, but I am actually ashamed that I watched it through.In short: have a labotomy prior to watching this movie, you might enjoy it then.