John Moore decided the time was ripe for a new Phoenix, so he sawed the old movie in two, rewrote one half and tries to get it to take off.

| Feb 2, 2018

Exciting (but intense) adventure for older kids.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2010

Remake of Robert Aldrich's revered 1965 classic would be 15% better if not for its abysmal use of pop music, and 100% better if Aldrich's son William had never thought to ride on his father's coattails by producing it in the first place.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 18, 2009

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 30, 2006

This is one flight that never quite gets off the ground.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 22, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

I half suspect that ... Ribisi decided that since there was no honorable way of playing the character straight, he'd chew up as much scenery as he could ...

| Sep 16, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2005

Entertaining, but brainless, popcorn fun.

| Original Score: B | Jun 20, 2005

Flight of the Phoenix ignores the human drama to focus on cockamamie setbacks that are harder to swallow than the plane's motor oil.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 13, 2005

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 2, 2005

If I had seen this film before the original, I might have actually preferred it.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 7, 2005

It's never more than ridiculous popcorn fun, but the fun is thin on the ground.

Full Review | Original Score: 44/100 | Mar 7, 2005

Competent, watchable remake that improves on the special effects and running time but loses the moral complexity and the character work of the original.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2005

This new Phoenix makes too many mistakes, the biggest one being the mistake of confusing 'modernizing' with 'dumbing down.'

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 28, 2005

...it's not tense enough, realistic enough, or exciting enough to lift it much beyond the ordinary.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 17, 2005

Frankly, it's painful to watch such a strong cast struggle so desperately to hold the film together while it falls apart around them

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 13, 2005