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(1 - 27) of 27 OFCS Rating: 33% Rotten Page   1   B "Entertaining, but brainless, popcorn fun."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark D "Flight of the Phoenix is a rare breed. It joins the small group of films in which the audience may actually wish that the characters do not achieve their goal: to live."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf C- "Remake of Robert Aldrich's revered 1965 classic would be 15% better if not for its abysmal use of pop music, and 100% better if Aldrich's son William had never thought to ride on his father's coattails by producing it in the first place."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "In Flight of the Phoenix, Tyrese does not take his shirt off."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/5 "This new Phoenix makes too many mistakes, the biggest one being the mistake of confusing 'modernizing' with 'dumbing down.'"   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius 3/4 "...as a piece of pure escapist entertainment, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more enjoyable way to spend two hours."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2/4 "Flight of the Phoenix is not only reductive but irrelevant too."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez B "A movie about people sitting around the desert with nothing to do runs a high risk of being dull, but Phoenix has enough wit, energy and charisma to keep soaring."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider C+ "It is not a very good film, but at least there is something going on here, most of the time."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov C "More standard programmer than action blockbuster, a remake that may not be offensive but is basically unnecessary."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/5 "This adventure drama about a group trying to survive in the Gobi desert is filled with nothing but hot air."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 1.5/4 "Despite using the same premise and numerous identical plot points, this remake replaces suspense with boredom and witty dialogue with lame lines any self-respecting actor should be embarrassed to utter."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 44/100 "It's never more than ridiculous popcorn fun, but the fun is thin on the ground."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi 6/10 "...it's not tense enough, realistic enough, or exciting enough to lift it much beyond the ordinary."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio D+ "Flight of the Phoenix ignores the human drama to focus on cockamamie setbacks that are harder to swallow than the plane’s motor oil."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer 8/10 "If I had seen this film before the original, I might have actually preferred it."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 2.5 "Everything that’s good [in the film] has a downside, and everything that doesn’t work has something that keeps it from failing completely."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B "This trim adventure saga doesn't waste any time assigning heartwarming characteristics or backstories. It gets your heart pounding the old-fashioned way; it is exciting."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 2/5 "Em vez de corrigir os pontos fracos do filme original, inclui uma série de novos defeitos que comprometem irremediavelmente o resultado final."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 2/5 "Frankly, it's painful to watch such a strong cast struggle so desperately to hold the film together while it falls apart around them"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 3.5/5 "John Moore's remake doesn't come close to upstaging its predecessor...and yet it doesn't exactly humiliate itself either."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg D "Mirrors the plot of the original point for point. All that's missing is little things like subtlety, nuance, characterization, and human interest."   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus 6/10 Read review   Movie Gazette   Anton Bitel 6/10 Read review   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Susan Granger Read review   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. Read review   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson Read review   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 27) of 27 OFCS Rating: 33% Rotten Page   1