Titreenp
SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
Kien Navarro
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Celia
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
thejcowboy22
All the hoopla and pomp and circumstances for this maiden flight. BIG DEAL! Just get me to Europe on time Mr. Brady.Actor Robert Reed is the Pilot of the plane. Of course the plane is sabotaged and Our Dear Doctor brings a rare strain of virus aboard which makes for a frustrating finish to a frustrated viewer. The cavalcade of 70's personalities the likes of Bert Convy and Chrystie Jenner who was married to Bruce Jenner and we all know how that turned out! Other actors of interest Peter Graves, Lorne Green who looks more natural in a cowboy suit. Barbara Anderson, George Maharis and Burgess Meredith plus Brock Peters, Doug McClure and Susan Strasberg who probably received an ear full from her Dad for excepting work to complete this disaster film in more ways than one.This movie was doomed from the beginning with the Regis Philbin seal of approval! I was waiting for Capt Stubing Of the Love Boat to come aboard.
icehole4
That so many good actors would get together in such a bad film. This movie's premise seems to be "take a cast, put them on an SST, and then subject them to trouble after trouble." I also find it hard to believe that so many good actors would have an off day every day of filming and at the same time. How many of their careers didn't get ruined by this film is beyond me, especially that of John de Lancie. Avoid this one at all costs. Airport '79 was a much better film, and Airplane! was a whole lot funnier.
Eric-62-2
The success of "Airport", "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno" proved there was a big appetite for disaster movies so naturally television felt they had to get into the act by offering their own lower budget knockoffs of the Irwin Allen disaster movie formula. "SST: Disaster In The Sky" is the ultimate example of this, since not only do we see a gaggle of 70s TV stars (all of whom it should be noted had one thing in common at the time. Their once popular series had all been cancelled by then!) like Robert Reed, Martin Milner, Peter Graves etc. we even see two future 80s TV stars Billy Crystal and John DeLancie in smaller roles (I hope David Letterman some day springs a clip of this on Crystal the next time he appears on the show). That alone is enough to make you keep watching despite the bad dialogue (characters have to engage in a lot of implausible exposition at various points in order for certain things to make sense), cheap FX and silly plot resolutions at the climax. Heck, "SST" is even better than some of the worst theatrical disaster movies coming out by then like the dreadful "Concorde: Airport 1979" so if you loved the quality disaster movies of the time like "Airport" and "Towering Inferno" settle back and enjoy this intriguing TV knockoff of the genre.
Sterno-2
Let me say straight away that this movie is toxic waste for the mind. This movie is not watchable because it has a good story; it doesn't. It's not watchable because there's good acting; there is none. It's watchable because of the cast. This will take you down TV memory lane...how many former TV stars can you pick out?As with any TV "Movie of the Week", the drawing power is in the stars. The story involves the inaugural flight of "Maiden One" the first supersonic transport plane. (The movie ignores the fact that it was a British-French conglomerate that first built the Concorde, and had to sue for the right to land in America during this time.) In this movie, we have a disgruntled worker who sabotages the flight by putting detergent in the hydraulic lines in order to get revenge on his boss (Burgess Meredith).We also have Doug McClure trying to get back into Tina Louise's pants, Billy Crystal playing a rather fey steward, John Delancie in training for his future role as Q, and Peter Graves as one half of a former May-December romance. Did I mention that there also happens to be a plot line about the airplane carrying the Senegal flu, which is now spreading among the crew? If you don't have sabotage, you've got the untamed strain of flu floating around.There are two references that date this movie. One is a reference to the "Swine flu". The other is the way that Burt Convy discusses abortion with his bimbo girlfriend -- the concept is mentioned, but she won't let him say the word.The movie does have a reverse natural selection -- the megastars like Meredith & Graves die, but losers like Convy, McClure, etc. live to make another bad TV movie. Check out the cameo of Regis Philbin (and his hair) as an annoying TV reporter.Sterno says SST Death Flight is a guilty pleasure.
