The Fast and the Fierce

'The Fast and the Fierce' - seriously? The title is a total misnomer, there's nothing remotely related to the 'Fast & Furious' franchise in this logic defying bomb on a plane ride. Benji (Steffi) is a no-hoper husband to hottie Donna (Davila) whose aboard a flight that's been rigged to explode unless he can obtain a computer code for seductive terrorist (Swain, who isn't bad) after the confident criminal makes him an offer he simply can't refuse (although he doesn't really show any sense of urgency until it's almost too late).

Veteran actor Paul co-stars as the Homeland Security agent trying his best to engineer a safe landing for the hijacked plane, and his character has the best of the banal dialogue on offer, the other actors having to contend with word drivel which they patiently deliver in some absurd situations - the more heavy handed flight attendant basically has the same cliched conversation with multiple passengers at regular intervals, warning them that their behaviour will not be tolerated and that they risk humiliation if they don't return to their seats. Yawn.

You wouldn't bet the house on a slacker like Benji pulling through, although the gravity of his perilous situation starts to sink-in when he discovers he wasn't the hijacker's first choice (although that doesn't really reconcile with the rest of the plot as you'll discover).

Heroes and villains are cleverly disguised and there's a few unexpected twists, but in the end the many ruses & red herrings cease to make sense and this cheap 'Speed' / 'Executive Decision' imitation loses the plot altogether.

The story and direction is terrible. CGI is terrible. Any movie using CGI should have a minimum quality, otherwise CGI makes it look worse. Engineering is literally thrown down the gutter! The plane scrapes a helicopter (the helicopter explodes), grazes the earth by the wing and nothing happens!! This whole movie is a waste of everything.

I don't even know why I started watching this.

I enjoy movies by The Asylum, if you watch enough of them your expectations are not very high You just want to watch something that involves minimal thinking and one viewing is enough... This movie 100% meets that criteria.

The poster is very misleading. Intending to make it look like something akin to The Fast and The Furious. The plane, the passengers, the crew, the captain, all nonsense. The plane flying between buildings you wouldn't even find in a computer game! And the acting is mostly bad, the plot doesn't make sense, and the last minute is also dumb, dumb. Give it a miss, I really mean it!

I'll start with the positives since its not the long. The premise of the movie itself wasn't bad and if you look past the plot holes and its nonsense logic. The story itself could have been great. It just wasn't.

Ok, the bad parts were really bad and I was waiting for something of substance or at least a worthwhile payoff. In the end we get out of nowhere "plot twists".

The acting was lazy and terrible in others. Either the actors knew it was that bad and didn't try or not any good. I didn't recognize any of them except one. He was at least decent-ish but given the only campy and ridiculous dialogue I've ever heard. It was similar to good ol' JR if you're an old-school wrestling fan.

There was no motive given nor any kind of exposition of one. The bad and phoned-in acting and the nonsensical plot were too much.

Only watch this movie during a bad movie night.