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A small passenger plane crashes in the desert. As it was off course, the likelihood of search parties finding it is remote. The mixed bag of survivors don't get on but, eventually, they work together to cannibalise the crashed plane into something which, according to the model plane designer among them, will be able to fly them to safety.Remakes should either do something different, or add something to the original. This works well enough, but doesn't really bring anything very new to the table. It passes the time, is well staged and performed, and is adequately tense, but the original was all those things.

This is the worst movie I've seen in years. Name the cliché--this movie has it: Rugged yet cynical and washed-up bad boy pilot who inexplicably gains the admiration of his crew and the affection of the pretty girl... People beating forces of nature through optimism and teamwork... Cloaked barbarians who ride over the ridge just as the courageous Westerners are trying to make an escape... Brainy know-it-all whose lack of empathy threatens to destroy the group...I feel like I've seen this movie before. It's the distillation of everything Hollywood has done wrong in the last 50 years.It looks like Dennis Quaid has fallen pretty far in the 20 years since The Right Stuff. He's as washed up as the character he portrays. Still, he must be pretty flattered that this entire movie seems to be built around that character, thin personality and all.