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Airport

Airport

1970
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
2h 17m
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved. (imdb)
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Airport

1970
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
2h 17m
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Rated 05 Mar 2009
54
19th
Dull. The relationships, the lightweight banter, the manufactured emergencies - it's all just so yawn inducing. After watching 'Airplane!' all these movies seem so ridiculous and melodramatic. Watch that instead or 'Air Crash Investigation' for the other end of the spectrum.
Rated 23 Jun 2013
65
45th
Re-watching this makes Airplane! that much funnier. Dated disaster flick has a charming enough cast to get by as a decent watch.
Rated 26 May 2014
62
29th
A landmark in Cinema Stupide that hearkens back to simpler times when every husband is married to a nagging wife and stewardess' job roles involved serving food, drinks and sexing up the hyper-libidos of middle-aged drunken pilots suffering from the stress brought on by their nagging wives.
Rated 21 Feb 2007
40
19th
Not bad.
Rated 15 Oct 2008
50
34th
Nothing special. The others get progressively more craptacular
Rated 12 Feb 2011
86
76th
Solid disaster film, one of the first of the 70s cycle. Lancaster and Martin add gravitas to their roles, and supporting players equally fine, especially Hayes (as amusing naughty-girl senior citizen), the always wonderful Stapleton as anxious wife of plane bomber, and incomparable disaster-film staple Kennedy. Seaton wrings maximum suspense and excitement from the scenario; the script occassionally surrenders to cliche, but film ultimately emerges as a superior entertainment.
Rated 28 Sep 2012
40
8th
A soap opera masquerading as a disaster movie. The kinda of overlong disaster flick that was popular during the 70s. The plot surrounds a bomb threat in an airplane and follows a group of over-privileged Americans reacting to their unfortunate inconvenience.
Rated 06 Aug 2016
70
75th
This is a pretty solid disaster movie. Yes it takes it's sweet time getting to the disaster and yes there s a lot of melodrama but neither of those things are necessarily bad. Disaster film aren't made like this any more, nowadays it's all about the spectacle and body count.
Rated 06 Apr 2022
80
74th
With a great ensemble cast and engaging subplots all around, "Airport" had a wildly successful run at the box office and spawned three sequels. While every one of the sequels has some merit, none of them recapture the magic of this first installment. The melodrama may be a little dated, but it's still a great yarn.
Rated 19 Aug 2007
70
39th
The original. Good when it came out, production quality doesn't hold up.
Rated 01 May 2008
42
18th
Takes forever to get to the point. After that it's decent but nothing special.
Rated 11 Jul 2008
41
33rd
Setting the tone for the rest of the movie, the opening sequence features a blizzard taking in place in full sunlight, complete with crisp shadows. Not quite as many laughs as "Airplane!", but close. It makes one nostalgic for the time when flying was a reasonably civilized experience.
Rated 19 Jun 2009
67
10th
Slow to start with all the exposition that's going on in the first half and it plays more like a TV series than like a motion picture. The second half is not too shabby, although the plot is not entirely believable. Performances are mixed with Lancaster, Seberg and Hayes being the best among the cast.
Rated 03 Sep 2009
71
60th
Old-fashioned disaster thriller built around an all-star cast, fairly moronic script, and an unavoidable accident during the flight of a passenger airliner. A boxoffice hit that paved the way for many lesser disaster flicks (including its many sequels) detailing the reactions of the passengers and crew as they cope with impending doom.
Rated 09 Dec 2009
71
50th
Entertaining box-office hit.
Rated 31 Jan 2011
75
54th
Pretty enjoyable movie, moves along well and has some interesting characters. I felt it should have ended sooner (SPOILER WARNING - the bomb explosion should have been the climax with an ending a few minutes thereafter), but I liked the movie overall.
Rated 03 Jun 2012
70
63rd
all the actors were great in it, especially hayes and stapleton of course.
Rated 10 Jun 2012
76
47th
Sluggish and predictable, but it still maintains tension pretty well while balancing the comedy and drama.
Rated 06 Mar 2015
72
30th
A Chicago-area airport is beset by various crises in the course of a snow night, not least of which is a suicidal man (Van Heflin) who intends to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight. A massive hit which led to the disaster craze of the 70s, it's uneven in retrospect, with compelling sequences detailing the nitty-gritty of running an airport interspersed with rather variable melodrama. Still worthwhile, with it's a hell of cast (Helen Hayes won an Oscar as a cutesy stowaway) and a great score.
Rated 16 Mar 2017
5
22nd
'The high and the mighty' was already passé in the 50s, and is better than this, and also funnier. So it begs that age-old question: Why?
Rated 25 Apr 2018
89
70th
Entertaining old soap opera crammed with melodrama, which veers into disaster towards the end. Well done.
Rated 13 Sep 2018
1
0th
there's no electricity in it, no smart talk, no flair. Written and directed by George Seaton, it's bland entertainment of the old school: every stereotyped action is followed by a stereotyped reaction-clichés commenting on clichés.
Rated 07 Jun 2019
60
25th
Watched again yesterday. This is very much a movie about the goings-on of an airport, with some affairs thrown in. There is the subplot with the bomber on the plane, but it's not all that prominent as you'd might think. Hard to believe this started off the disaster movie genre, but it's interesting to look at in a way. Originally rated 1/23/19.
Rated 04 Dec 2019
38
23rd
This disaster film didn't age well, and the only reason I can think to watch it now is to give some context to "Airplane!"
Rated 28 Jul 2020
40
12th
Jean Seberg için seyrettim. Lincoln Havalimanında geçen olaylar. İş arkadaşların arasında geçen aşk. Kaçak 1 yaşlı yolcu. 1 canlı bomba. Kötü hava şartları. Ünlü oyuncular olmasına karşın, senaryo o kadar kötü ki. Bir de film çok ağır. Bildiğin üstüme öküz oturdu. Filmin sonunda, bomba patlıyor. Ve hiçbir şey olmadan uçağımız iniyor. Hayatımda seyrettiğim en kötü Oscar adayı filmi. Dördünü planladık. Üçü sürpriz.
Rated 14 Apr 2021
71
21st
The Dean Martin storyline is the only interesting one of the bunch.
Rated 22 Aug 2021
25
16th
Just takes so long to even start the central premise of it being a disaster movie, it's amazing how low standards were that this spawned a whole subgenre throughout the 70's.
Rated 31 Oct 2022
69
70th
There is something so pleasant when, expecting mediocrity, you get excitement. A slow and detail focus movie that ramps up the thrills in the last 30 minutes, tying up all of the conflict the various characters experience nicely. It doesn’t try to be anything more than it is: a solid plane movie
Rated 08 Apr 2023
56
25th
I liked watching Lancaster, Martin and Kennedy, but the soap opera back stories are a bit much. An Oscar for Helen Hayes?
Rated 26 Aug 2023
83
53rd
Well-paced movie, especially for its time. I liked the ensemble cast. Interesting subplots going on. Yes, it was a tad heavy-handed but all the characters had depth - not cardboard cutouts unlike many other ensemble cast movies ive watched recenty. I think i also learned a lot more about airplanes and the airline industry thanks to this movie- never before.

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