Airport '77

PG

Released Mar 11, 1977

1h 53m

Mystery & Thriller

Action

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10 Reviews

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The story about the mid-air hijack of a multi-millionaire's private 747 carrying a collection of priceless works of art. The terrified pilot is forced by the hijackers to fly low to avoid radar detection and, as a result, the plane hits an oil rig and crashes into the sea. As the stricken airliner sinks, its passengers and crew are faced with a nightmare fight for survival.

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Steve D

Who blackmailed the cast into this and how?

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/26/24

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BMCO K

Camp-free yarn with game straight faced performances by a mix of huge stars and some familiar TV faces. Still, it's all ludicrous TV-movie melodrama, really. Hold on to your hat for the nonstop garbage-fest that is Airport '79. That's the one to watch for Mystery Science Theatre 3000 level awfulness.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

05/01/21

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Audience Member

Not a perfect movie, but better than most disaster flicks. Solid acting and a reasonable plot, if you ignore the ridiculous sequence of the actual crash. Certainly better than that Pierce Brosnan volcano movie.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Still carries the disastrous chronicles' impressive scale with an interesting circumstance that generates medical drama and thrills while the characterization is more decent than the previous bunch but the focus is rather unbalanced amid the overdone reaping, despite being close to the original flow. (B) (Full review TBD)

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Great ensemble cast in another fun Airport film. The thrills are really starting to dwindle though. While the stakes are high, it doesn't have the sense of urgency that a situation like this should.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/02/19

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With the previous two films being generally set in reality and being quite serious in how the disasters were portrayed despite a general campy tone to the script this second sequel throws all of that out of the window. This film expects us to believe that a 747 can hit an oil rig at full speed, lose only power to one engine and then crash uncontrollably into the ocean and come out of all of that in near perfect condition. Now yes suspension of disbelief is something that is required with a lot of disaster films but when the physics are so obvious and well known concerning planes crashing into water (successful attempts are rare) I find it hard to suspend my disbelief. It does however set up a film that is mostly entertaining despite having the least interesting cast of the series, it is enjoyable seeing the Navy prepare and enact their rescue operation, the score is decent, the set pieces are fun and there are a couple of tense scenes as the plane begins to flood. The lack of realism however does undermine the film just enough to annoy but at least it is far from the worst that the disaster genre had to offer from the seventies.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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Jerry Jameson

Director

Jack Lemmon

Capt. Don Gallagher

Lee Grant

Karen Wallace

George Kennedy

Joe Patroni

Brenda Vaccaro

Eve Clayton

James Stewart

Philip Stevens

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

I mean, whadaya gonna say? It's not Wertmuller? You've got to take these things on their own level, and they've finally made one 30 feet under.

Rated: 2/4

Jul 2, 2018

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

...a first-class 1970s disaster picture.

Rated: 3/4

Feb 2, 2023

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Ruth Batchelor

Los Angeles Free Press

One thing you can find out from this disaster is that if you're ever in a plane that crashes under water, you could come out alive. And that's something, isn't it?

Oct 23, 2019

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Bernard Drew

Gannett News Service

I don't know why anybody flies anymore, what with Airport, Airport 75, and now Airport 77 informing us, with unvarying formularized precision that unless we're big movie stars, we may never get to our destinations.

Jul 10, 2019

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Matt Brunson

Creative Loafing

Airport '77 sounds like it would be the dopiest of them all, but it's actually not bad, thanks to a surprisingly strong cast and a tendency to avoid any camp.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jul 9, 2016

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

This trashy adventure-melodrama is the second in the film series that began in 1970.

Rated: C-

Jun 22, 2011

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Synopsis

The story about the mid-air hijack of a multi-millionaire's private 747 carrying a collection of priceless works of art. The terrified pilot is forced by the hijackers to fly low to avoid radar detection and, as a result, the plane hits an oil rig and crashes into the sea. As the stricken airliner sinks, its passengers and crew are faced with a nightmare fight for survival.

Director: Jerry Jameson
Screenwriter: Michael Scheff
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Universal/Universal Int
Rating: PG
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 11, 1977, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 13, 2015
Runtime: 1h 53m

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