This little-known TV movie was thinking way ahead of its time, considering that events that occurred in the film - passengers overpowering the terrorists - may have actually taken place in at least one of the hijacked planes on 9/11/01.
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The plot is fairly straightforward: When a group of psychopathic terrorists begin murdering passengers & crew members on a jet they've hijacked in order to secure their leader's release, the passengers - including an armed policeman - start making plans to overpower them. Eventually they strike; one terrorist is hit in the face with a hot liquid, scalding him; another is gunned down by the policeman; a third is overpowered by several passengers and has his weapon taken; and the fourth is overpowered by the flight crew. With the terrorists now at the mercy of the same people they'd been torturing and killing, the passengers and crew now must figure out what action to take: do they execute the terrorists, or hand them over to authorities?
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I have seen both versions of the ending to this movie, and one was admittedly more disturbing than the other. Truth really does seem stranger than fiction today, given the events of 9/11.
***POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING!***
The plot is fairly straightforward: When a group of psychopathic terrorists begin murdering passengers & crew members on a jet they've hijacked in order to secure their leader's release, the passengers - including an armed policeman - start making plans to overpower them. Eventually they strike; one terrorist is hit in the face with a hot liquid, scalding him; another is gunned down by the policeman; a third is overpowered by several passengers and has his weapon taken; and the fourth is overpowered by the flight crew. With the terrorists now at the mercy of the same people they'd been torturing and killing, the passengers and crew now must figure out what action to take: do they execute the terrorists, or hand them over to authorities?
***END SPOILER WARNING***
I have seen both versions of the ending to this movie, and one was admittedly more disturbing than the other. Truth really does seem stranger than fiction today, given the events of 9/11.