Sometimes there is a film that you think is so cool when you were a teenager, but then you realize that you shouldn’t really take it too seriously.
What’s amazing is that THE CONCORDE – AIRPORT ’79 (released originally in the UK as ‘AIRPORT ’80 – THE CONCORDE) was written by Eric Roth, who went on to write the Oscar-winning FORREST GUMP, starring Tom Hanks.
OK, the plot is this: a reporter (Susan Blakely) has gotten hold of some very important documents that could imprisoned an arms dealer (Robert Wagner) and she is one of several all-star passengers on a Concorde trip.
Before long, Wagner’s villain has sent a guided missile up to intercept the Concorde, which defies logistics on screen and in the cockpit (the scene where George Kennedy’s established by this time character Joe Patroni opens up a window in the cockpit to fire a flare to try and divert the guided missile is worth the viewing time alone.
One of the ‘so bad, it’s good’ staple of film releases.