Think too hard and it’s really rubbish.Įlias is panicky for his mum.
All for reasons unknown (we get mentions of an ongoing stock market crisis and 9/11 causing a stock crash that could be profited from). This is where we really have to suspend disbelief…Įssentially, and unbelievably, they managed to get the co-pilot, steward and baddy passengers on the same flight – the flight on which they managed to trick three Muslims onto with a fake conference in America to frame them as terrorists – at least one person from ground crew is also in on it, someone who had left a message only viewable in infrared so they knew which panel to get in in order to hack something and they had all the equipment in the hold to blow both the cargo door and the plane, and have parachutes to meet a mid-ocean rendezvous. The baddies quickly kill the undercover sky marshals and it is revealed that they include in their number the co-pilot (Kai Ivo Baulitz), who kills the pilot, and a new steward, Eightball (Alexander Scheer, Getting my Brother Laid). We hear Drummond say that the plane has one of Germany’s terrorist watch list on board – but that's likely one of the innocent dupes (on a list due to racial profiling). Led by Berg (Dominic Purcell, Blood Creek & Blade Trinity), who is woefully underused, we don’t know what they want.
On the plane we quickly discover there are bad guys around. In the airport we see she has medication – prescription she explains – and we see her (in the toilet) drink something from a bottle – blood – and then inject herself – the drug supresses her vampirism. She ends the call when Elias calls to say he has checked in. His case is heavy and Farid helps him lift it, when asked where his mother is he says she is on her way… In the hotel room, Nadja is speaking to a doctor in the US who is showing her the treatment area – she is travelling to New York for experimental radiation therapy. In a hotel room a woman, Nadja (Peri Baumeister), looks in the mirror and then puts a wig on covering her bald head… In an airport Elias checks in for his mother and himself. The soldiers get him and bring him to base – a translator tries to talk to him but he is silent. Out of a doorless cargo hatch a young boy, Elias (Carl Anton Koch), exits. The plane lands and in the cockpit is Farid (Kais Setti), the assumed hijacker (the undercurrent of the Western default of Islamophobia is strong in this) who has sniper rifles trained on him. So, as I say, the film starts with a plane being talked down from autopilot from a control tower as Colonel Alan Drummond (Graham McTavish, Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Monsters and Mutants, Preacher & Castlevania) takes command. Alas, whilst entertaining it is overly long (it needs at least 30 minutes cutting from the run time), with poor pacing choices including the backstory exposition, which leads to more questions than answers, and missing exposition that might have been more pertinent. Netflix’s latest vampire flick, and between the very toothsome and plane-based trailer and the fact that the opening scenes show the aforementioned plane land at a Scottish military airbase this one is super hard to spoil – vampire, on plane, with son, hijackers… that is almost the plot laid out in full.īe that as it may, as an action adventure this could have been a bit of an action sub-genre classic.
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