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| Flight of the Phoenix [Blu-ray] | ![Flight of the Phoenix [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H7YQZFSQL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: John Moore
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Tyrese Gibson, Miranda Otto, Hugh Laurie
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: $29.98
Buy New: $9.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  117 reviews
Sales Rank: 12693
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Subtitled
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 113
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 01124
UPC: 024543401124
EAN: 0024543401124
ASIN: B000JSI7AS
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: December 5, 2006
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Product Description
20th Century Flight Of The Phoenix (Blu-Ray) An action-adventure in which a group of air crash survivors - cast-offs from society who will never be missed - are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no hope ofrescue. As they attempt to build a new plane fromthe wreckage of the old one, in hopes of flying back to civilization, they experience a rebirth of their own.
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As superfluous remakes go, Flight of the Phoenix could've been better, and could've been worse. It's a passable popcorn adventure, especially for those unfamiliar with the 1965 original, which starred James Stewart, made headlines for the crash-landing death of stunt-pilot Paul Mantz, and now stands as a minor classic of its era. This flashy remake stars Dennis Quaid in Stewart's role, adds a woman to the list of plane-crash survivors, and showcases Giovanni Ribisi, who gives a cleverly eccentric performance as the model-airplane designer who proposes to rebuild a crashed cargo plane into a single-engine escape from certain death in the remote Gobi desert. Both films are essentially identical, but this remake is somehow less believable (due to shortcuts in a haphazardly written screenplay) and much more spectacular, owing to the advantage of impressive special effects. Otherwise it's a routine dose of survivalist entertainment from the director of Behind Enemy Lines, never convincing enough to be genuinely compelling, but certainly never boring. --Jeff Shannon
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 A Gift for Someone January 7, 2009
Actually, we have to assume it was a good DVD as it was suggested to us as a gift for someone else.
2.5 stars out of 4 December 18, 2008
The Bottom Line:
Another pointless remake, Flight of the Phoenix has nothing to recommend it aside from the fact that it's not that bad; there is no reason to watch or purchase it when the better original is also available on DVD.
Flight of the Phoenix - Blu-ray Info November 5, 2008
Version: U.S.A / Region A
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
MPEG-2 BD-25
Running time: 1:52:57
Movie size: 20,95 GB
Disc size: 22,52 GB
Average video bit rate: 18.06 Mbps
Number of chapters: 36
Subtitles: English / English SDH / Spanish / French
DTS-HD Master Audio English 4099 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 4099kbps (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 1536kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio French 448 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 448kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 448 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 448kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 224kbps
#Audio commentary with director John Moore, producers John Davis and Wyck Godfrey and production designer Patrick Lumb
 Rip off of a great movie August 17, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I won't give this one a long review. It doesn't deserve one. It is a rip-off of the great Jimmy Stewart-Hardy Kruger movie of the same name. This film doesn't even start to compare. Worse, in a time of a war against fundamentalist terrorism, this film tries to be politically correct...politically correct, that is, if you are a Hollywood Loonie Tunes.
Rather than the North Africa and torture by Arabic bandits this film is placed in northern Asia and the assault is by a large band of Mongol banditos which Quaid, I think it is, manages to shoot to pieces with one of those pistols that never need to be reloaded. In way of criticism, there are still Arab marauders in the deserts of North Africa. Mongol bandits are, however, an anachronism having disappeared rather thoroughly with the Communist regimes of the last 65 years or more.
The only good part of the film is that in which a Mongol raider has been wounded and taken prisoner. This represents a significant drain on limited resources. The computer nerd, I think from Long Beach, California, proves himself to be not quite such a nerd by shooting him dead while the other wrecked passengers are wringing their hands. Problem solved.
Ron Braithwaite author of novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
 Get The Original May 5, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Who needs character development when you can have special effects. Besides, character development takes time and requires a little attention span. I suspect the director plays a lot of computer games and is heavily influenced by such great works as Grand Theft Auto.
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