Plane

Some people complain a lot about travelling, and trust me i have heard all kinds of reasons both on buses, trains and airplanes. It could be something simple as they didn´t get the window seat they were hoping for, or they have to sit close to a family with small children ( because the children may cry ). Some might even complain that the coffee wasn´t warm enough, even though i tasted the same coffee and found nothing wrong with it. Whenever i hear people complain about travelling i try to focus on one of the most important things in this world, and that is to think about actor Gerard Butler. Whenever i think about him i feel warm inside, it´s like he heals my soul. Gerard Butler can make you feel things you never thought were possible, and believe me i have discovered that myself. I know some people say that Yoga is good for you, but i believe more in The Gerard Butler Philosophy. Where can i find this, in a book store? No, all you need to do is go online and buy a copy of a film called Olympus Has Fallen. This is the Gerard Butler film that has all the answers you have been looking for in life. How to communicate with humans in a harmonic way, how to become a more positive soul and of course how to deal with life in general. Gerard Butler will show you all of this in Olympus Has Fallen. So what´s this film all about? Former U.S. Army Ranger, Mike Banning ( Gerard Butler ), is a Secret Service Agent and detail leader in the Presidential Protection Division. His orders are to make sure that President Benjamin Asher ( Aaron Eckhart ), First Lady Margaret Asher ( Asley Judd ) and their son Connor Asher ( Finley Jacobsen ). On a snowy Christmas drive, the car that the Presidential Family is sitting in spins out of control on an icy bridge. President Benjamin and his son Connor survive, while Margaret tragically fall to her death. Eighteen months later, Banning works at the Treasury Department, having been removed from the Presidential detail. During President Asher´s meeting South Korean Prime Minister Lee Tae-Woo ( Keong Sim ) at the White House, the KUF, a North Korean terrorist group led by Kang Yeonsak ( Rik Yune ) attack the White House with their armed forces and take over the building. What they don´t know is that Mike Banning manage to get inside the building. Olympus Has Fallen is a really fun powerful action film from start to finish, and Gerard Butler as Mike Banning is perhaps one of his best characters so far in his career. You should definetely see this film if you love hard hitting action, and check out the sequels London Has Fallen and Angel Has Fallen as well. In the beginning of Januray of this year the latest Gerard Butler film Plane was released in cinemas worldwide and have actually been doing quite good so far. I managed to see the film before it ended showing in cinema and the question is, does this Gerard Butler film deliver all that we hoped for, or have he lost his cinema screen magic a long time ago?

Commercial pilot Brodie Torrance ( Gerard Butler ), a former RAF pilot from Scotland flies Trailblazer Airlines Flight 119 with 14 passangers and three cabin crew members from Singapore to Honolulu. Among the passengers is figitive homicide suspect Louis Gaspare ( Mike Colter ), who is accompanied by an RCMP officer en route to Canada. While Captain Brodie takes a shortcut across the South China Sea, the plane turns out to be heavily damaged from a storm. The plane is forced to do an emergency landing at the Jojo island in the Philippines. What the passengers don´t know, is that this island is heavily armed with criminal rebels.

Have you been missing the action films of the 90´s lately in more recent film releases? Do you miss the good days of violence, guns and simple dialogue? I can tell you right away that Plane should be exactly what you are looking for. This is definetely a throwback to the 90´s that doesn´t care about what´t trending on social media. Plane is a film filled with men fighting for survival and trying to figure out how to solve different problems on a tropical island. And perhaps the biggest throwback to the 90´s is when we see that military soldiers discover that the plane have crashed. This is where the real violence begins and it feels like we are back to military action films of the past where you don´t give a shit about anything else than surviving. For that reason alone i feel that we need this genre to stay alive because we can´t make movies just to be social media hits. We need real men kicking ass and killing bad people, just like we did in the 90´s. So what about the characters in this film? There are 2 characters that definetely stands out from the crowd and let us begin with Gerard Butler´s character Brodie. Not only is he the Captain of the plane but he also knows how to do combat, a combination that works really good together in this scenario. Gerard knows how to make action films work and i really hope he continue to do more films in this genre. Actor Mike Coltor ( who was really good in the Netflix TV series Luke Cage, worth checking out ) plays the character Louis, a former GCP French Foreign Legion soldier. Mike makes his character rough but at the same time he doesn´t have a cold heart, and i like the fact that he actually think through survival tactics. The plot of Plane may be thin but i can definetely accept that, since you don´t need a complicated story in a film like this. You just want to enjoy the action and not think about what is politically correct or not. Director Jean-Francois Richet ( who directed the great Mel Gibson action film Blood Father, worth checking out ) deliver a solid action film from start to finish, and you can tell that he wanted to bring back this genre back on feet, not using too much CGI effects but old school combat scenes. If you don´t like violence or manly movies this is definetely not for you. But for the rest of us we get to have a great time in the company of Plane, it is just so nice to see that there is still hope for this genre. Plane is like a fun roller coaster ride, you never really want it to end.

Rating: DDD