Flight 7500 (2014)

Going in and just expecting another paranormal activity kind of genre and just more of a spirit heavy movie. It took a different path, it wasn't to bad. Had some minor jumpy parts did lack a bit of story description but overall was ok. I liked it a bit more because it was different, never would of thought of this style of movie to be set on a plane, but I think that may of been the reason I give it the 5 instead of 3. But overall the setting was original, but other than that pretty same old plot line. But still ok, would recommend if you couldn't find something late at night or if you don't have any entertainment around the 4:20 mark ...

As a horror fan, I did of course take the chance to sit down and watch "Flight 7500" when I was given the chance. However, I had no prior knowledge of the movie, it's storyline and synopsis, and didn't know who starred in the movie. But that hardly mattered, because it was my interest in the horror genre that spurred my interest to give the movie a chance without any prior knowledge."Flight 7500" started out quite nicely and quickly picked up a good pace, which set the atmosphere and the mood quite nicely, and it also set the bar of expectations fairly high for me. And luckily then the movie maintained that level of pace, thrill and mystery all the way to the very end.The character gallery in the movie was actually quite good, there was a wide array of different types of characters; some you connect with, some you instantly take a liking to, some you just dislike right away, and so forth. So writer Craig Rosenberg had managed to do a good job with the characters in the story.To bring the characters to life on the screen they had assembled a fairly good ensemble of acting talents. For me, there were only a couple of familiar faces on the cast list, that being Leslie Bibb and Jamie Chung. And I do enjoy watching new faces in a movie, because then I don't have any subconscious associations to other characters portrayed by the performers. And I will say that the cast ensemble here really performed quite well and were great at bringing their individual characters to life on the screen.Writer Craig Rosenberg and director Takashi Shimizu were actually very successful in their endeavor of making a movie that keeps the audience in the dark and keeps the plot and storyline as a mystery. I enjoyed how you were kept in the dark and really didn't know what was going on, so you were every bit as on edge and terrified as the characters in the movie were. And that really worked out so very well in favor of the movie and it set a fabulous atmosphere.Actually I will say that "Flight 7500" sort of feels like it could be a part of the "Twilight Zone" universe, because it definitely has that vibe and atmosphere going on. So if you enjoyed "Twilight Zone" then you will most definitely also find enjoyment in "Flight 7500".It was nice how the audience was kept in the dark and having to guess and speculate about what was happening about the flight, and I found the reveal of the actual events to actually be rather interesting. I hadn't foreseen that turn of events, so it was a nice surprise for me.The ending of the movie, meh... It was just a bit too generic and really didn't bring any closure to the entire movie. But all in all, a very entertaining horror mystery, and I can warmly recommend that you take the time to sit down and watch "Flight 7500" if you haven't already seen it.

always like movies with a plot-twist. This movie actually has a good one, only a pretty bad script.--------------spoilers----------------------- -----------------------And one thing a lot of people don't realize is the revelation when Liz's character wakes up and open up the waste bin, with a warning sign saying no cigarette. My thought is that she is actually the one who caused the incident. She puffed a cig and threw the bud into the bin, which caused fire and damaging the plane seal,and when she realize & accepts it, the shinigami came for her.It is actually a good story.

Oh dear.Takashi Shimizu has proved he's a capable director with the iconic Ju-On films, and the inferior but still entertaining American remakes.I honestly can't explain how 7500 manages to be so irredeemably terrible.It has a good cast, though nobody puts in anywhere near their best performance, probably due to the utterly idiotic script. The interpersonal stuff is actually decent: the couple stuck on holiday together after breaking up due to repeated miscarriages have some real pathos to them, and the two featured flight attendants have interesting personal lives that invite you to care about them.On a technical level, the film gets almost nothing right. We seem to have two flight attendants looking after an entire 747 full of passengers, a paramedic who gives up CPR after about thirty seconds, and a pilot who decides not to turn back and make an emergency landing but instead to proceed with the remainder of an eight hour flight after a passenger dies after only an hour in the air. The whole film is packed with this kind of idiocy. Oh, and low pressure? It makes plastic bottles POP, not SQUASH, you IDIOTS.All the technical errors in the world could be forgiven, though, if 7500 simply worked as a horror film. This is its greatest failure. The scares are either out of nowhere cheap shocks or built-up moments of supposed terror that provoke a sigh and an eye-roll instead of a scream.Then there's that ending. Oh god, the ending...Okay, from here on there be SPOILERS.......Still reading? Okay, the SPOILERS begin now...On what planet is that "they were dead all along" twist still even remotely original or appropriate? Memo for you, Hollywood: Carnival of Souls was made FIFTY YEARS AGO. This is not a shocking revelation any more. STOP USING IT.The only way to make this ending work is to do something new and clever and daring with it, like Shyamalan did with Sixth Sense. Rewatch Sixth Sense and you will see that it is littered with clues, and even knowing the twist there is a wealth of cool details to discover.7500, in contrast, has nothing. There are literally no clues to the twist ending. It literally comes out of nowhere. Even the attempts to insert some logic into the random string of deaths makes no sense.We're told the shinigami will come for prematurely dead souls after they have let go of whatever is holding them on earth. Appropriately, then, two different characters are seen giving up something important to them, and then dying soon after. If this was carried through the film, giving it some structure and sense, then it would have been a much better movie.But no - most of the characters die for no apparent reason.Oh, and the revelation of the big "they've been dead all along" ending is also delivered without any thought or sense. For most of the film they can't see all their own corpses, then suddenly they can. Why? I have no idea. It's like a large chunk of story was edited out.What a bad, bad film, and a terrible waste of a group of actors I have seen do much better work, made by a director whose best work is in the rear view mirror and shrinking fast.