Horrible. First... I like Sam Jackson a lot and his talent in wasted on crap like this. He couldn't even say "motherf*cker" (I can't even write it here)... they had to mask out the "f*cker" with machine gun fire.
In this movie, the POTUS repeats several times how he has the power to command the greatest army in the world, yet, he's a f*cking idiot who doesn't seem to know how to take care of himself and needs a 13 year old to survive. I had a hard time deciding which was more retarded: this movie or the POTUS.
It started out really good and had a very good premise - The POTUS is lost in the wilderness of a foreign country - hunted by terrorists - and his only saving grace is a boy from a local village. Very cool.
But the execution was just flat out lame and it seems the creators were trying to join Maze Runner and Hunger Games on the whole teen empowerment band wagon.
There were some scenes that had promise, but too many plot holes, inexplicable situations, simple coincidences and good luck really made this a sh*tty movie. The kid didn't really do much to save the day that the Prez couldn't have done himself.
Lots of things p!ssed me off- -Here's the one that ruined the whole movie for me from the start - Air Force One is traveling at, let's say, around 600 miles per hour, and the Presidential escape pod is ejected out of the rear of Air Force One almost a full two minutes before the jet liner is shot down. After the jet is shot down, it is still traveling at a high rate of speed and nearly crash lands on top of the kid while he is traveling through the forest, headed in the same direction. Suddenly, he comes upon the President's escape pod... just ahead of him. How the hell is this possible? If my math is correct, a plane flying at 600 miles per our is traveling at a rate of 10 miles a minute. If the escape pod was released two minutes before the plane was shot down, wouldn't it land around 20 miles BEHIND the kid and not 20 feet in front of him?
-The Prez wasn't smart enough or was too much of a pussy to jump out of the damned fridge while it was being pulled through the trees by a helicopter, yet the kid could still run and keep up with it. And climb back on it!
-The Prez couldn't just tell the kid to take him back to his village and find help?
-Plus the kid was too dumb to return to his village for help with a stranger he finds lost in a forest, especially after nearly having the entire damned Air Force One fall right on top of him. You'd think that would be a hint to find help.
-A helicopter dragging an object through such a heavily forested terrain and nothing snags on a tree to bring the chopper down? Bullshit.
-A guided missile that doesn't totally destroy a plane the size of Air Force One - it just knocks it out of the sky? They must have bought on Blue Light Special from K-Mart.
-If the plane wasn't completely destroyed - just did a belly landing into a lake - how could there be no survivors on board? It wasn't even completely submerged.
-Satellites can actually be used to find the POTUS, lost in the wilderness, by simply zeroing in on a stray helicopter?
-A terrorist, who orchestrated this entire kidnapping, starts a countdown on a bomb to kill the Prez and ends up left behind with it and rather than disarm it, he fights with the Prez instead and, then, during the fight, we discover that he doesn't even know how to chamber a round in a machine gun?
-AND FINALLY -The kid shoots an arrow, while parachuting, at a bad guy sitting in the door of a hovering helicopter, from a distance of probably 30-40 feet, and hits the guy right square in the chest? He barely even had the strength, earlier, to send the arrow 15 feet and now he has enough strength to not only shoot an arrow 40 feet, but his target in a straight flight against the vortex of down draft from the rotor blades of a hovering chopper. Wow. I don't think even Rambo could do that.
I know that, sometimes, you have to suspend disbelief when watching a movie, but this one expects you to be full blown retarded.
Avoid this movie unless you have kids who just want to see another tween play soldier against a bunch of professional bad guys.
In this movie, the POTUS repeats several times how he has the power to command the greatest army in the world, yet, he's a f*cking idiot who doesn't seem to know how to take care of himself and needs a 13 year old to survive. I had a hard time deciding which was more retarded: this movie or the POTUS.
It started out really good and had a very good premise - The POTUS is lost in the wilderness of a foreign country - hunted by terrorists - and his only saving grace is a boy from a local village. Very cool.
But the execution was just flat out lame and it seems the creators were trying to join Maze Runner and Hunger Games on the whole teen empowerment band wagon.
There were some scenes that had promise, but too many plot holes, inexplicable situations, simple coincidences and good luck really made this a sh*tty movie. The kid didn't really do much to save the day that the Prez couldn't have done himself.
Lots of things p!ssed me off- -Here's the one that ruined the whole movie for me from the start - Air Force One is traveling at, let's say, around 600 miles per hour, and the Presidential escape pod is ejected out of the rear of Air Force One almost a full two minutes before the jet liner is shot down. After the jet is shot down, it is still traveling at a high rate of speed and nearly crash lands on top of the kid while he is traveling through the forest, headed in the same direction. Suddenly, he comes upon the President's escape pod... just ahead of him. How the hell is this possible? If my math is correct, a plane flying at 600 miles per our is traveling at a rate of 10 miles a minute. If the escape pod was released two minutes before the plane was shot down, wouldn't it land around 20 miles BEHIND the kid and not 20 feet in front of him?
-The Prez wasn't smart enough or was too much of a pussy to jump out of the damned fridge while it was being pulled through the trees by a helicopter, yet the kid could still run and keep up with it. And climb back on it!
-The Prez couldn't just tell the kid to take him back to his village and find help?
-Plus the kid was too dumb to return to his village for help with a stranger he finds lost in a forest, especially after nearly having the entire damned Air Force One fall right on top of him. You'd think that would be a hint to find help.
-A helicopter dragging an object through such a heavily forested terrain and nothing snags on a tree to bring the chopper down? Bullshit.
-A guided missile that doesn't totally destroy a plane the size of Air Force One - it just knocks it out of the sky? They must have bought on Blue Light Special from K-Mart.
-If the plane wasn't completely destroyed - just did a belly landing into a lake - how could there be no survivors on board? It wasn't even completely submerged.
-Satellites can actually be used to find the POTUS, lost in the wilderness, by simply zeroing in on a stray helicopter?
-A terrorist, who orchestrated this entire kidnapping, starts a countdown on a bomb to kill the Prez and ends up left behind with it and rather than disarm it, he fights with the Prez instead and, then, during the fight, we discover that he doesn't even know how to chamber a round in a machine gun?
-AND FINALLY -The kid shoots an arrow, while parachuting, at a bad guy sitting in the door of a hovering helicopter, from a distance of probably 30-40 feet, and hits the guy right square in the chest? He barely even had the strength, earlier, to send the arrow 15 feet and now he has enough strength to not only shoot an arrow 40 feet, but his target in a straight flight against the vortex of down draft from the rotor blades of a hovering chopper. Wow. I don't think even Rambo could do that.
I know that, sometimes, you have to suspend disbelief when watching a movie, but this one expects you to be full blown retarded.
Avoid this movie unless you have kids who just want to see another tween play soldier against a bunch of professional bad guys.