Product Details

• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Running time: 98 minutes

Customer Reviews

Believe it or not...
Believe it or not, this is actually not that bad of a film. Now, that shouldn't be taken to mean that this is a particularly good film, either but as far as implausible B-movies taking place on hijacked airplanes without pilots go, Turbulence 3 is definitely one of the better examples of the genre.

Basically, the film deals with Slade Craven, a "goth" rock star that is obviously meant to conjure up memories of Marilyn Manson. Bizarrely enough, the two songs that Craven actually performs in the film are actually fairly good. Like a lot of things in this film, the songs are actually something that the producers could have easily blown off but instead, for whatever reason, they actually went to the effort necessary to keep things at least occasionally entertaining. Anyway, for some reason, Craven's latest concert is going to be a pay-per-view extravaganza held inside a 747 flying to Canada. Of course, the idea of holding a concert in an airplane while the airplane is actually in flight is nothing short of ludicrous. Of course, it's no more ludicrous than Rutger Hauer, of all people, popping up as the plane's copilot without raising anyone's suspicions. The filmmakers to their credit, don't waste any time trying to justify this insanity but instead they cheerfully embrace the silliness of it all and roll with it.

In quick order, the flight ends up getting hijacked by your typical group of demented Satanists. While the plane's helpless passengers -- a nice combination of decadent goths, confused stewardesses, and bandmates who wouldn't be out of place in a shock rock sequel to Almost Famous -- fight for their lives, a ground-based computer hacker (Craig Sheffer) works with a tightly wound yet secretly frisky FBI agent (Gabrielle Anwar) to thwart the hijacker's sinister plans. (Those plans never quite make sense but, by this point, we've already been forced to accept the sight of a concert being held in a 747 and it's already too late to quibble about plausibility.)

Strangely enough, this all works in it's nicely demented way. This is a fun film and, if for nothing else, it deserves credit for not insulting the viewer's intelligence by trying to be anything other than an entertaining action-comedy. The script is full of a few pithy one-liners that serve almost to satirize all the awful "comic" relief that audiences have been subjected to in every big-budget action film produced since the late '80s. As well, the film's actors all seem to be having fun and it comes across to the viewer. Special notice should be given to Joe Mantegna, who seems to be chanelling none other than Airplane's glue-sniffing Lloyd Bridges, as a by-the-book FBI agent, Hauer, Anwar, and, surprisingly, Craig Sheffer who, for once, manages to turn in a performance as something else than the most boring human being alive. The film's strongest peformance comes from an unknown by the name of John Mann who manages to make Slade Craven into an actual, almost compelling human being as opposed to a cardboard cut-out of Marilyn Manson.

Turbulence 3 is the type of time waster that gives wasting time a good name.

Heavy Metal....THUD!!!
This movie has been on cable recently...and other than one actress who spent the movie parading around the airplane in tight leather pants, this movie has no redeeming qualities. The plot has a "death" rocker in a Marilyn Manson-type get-up boarding an airplane to give his final concert via an Internet webcast, along for the ride are a few dozen wonderfully dressed and made up "metal-heads." Soon all kinds of hijinx and hijacks break out as the viewer is left screaming for a parachute. Rutger Hauer makes a surprise appearance as the co-pilot; surprise, meaning that its a surprise that the same actor who flawlessly spearheaded the classic "Blade Hunter" years ago has found himself in this bumbling, ridiculous monstrosity. After Hauer and the plane's captain were mercifully dispatched to that great cockpit in the sky, it is up to the Manson look-alike to try and land the plane...all I could think of was when Julie Hagerty in "Airplane" got on the plane's intercom and asked, "By the way does anyone know how to fly a plane?" I would also add "By the way, does anyway in Hollywood know how to make a movie?"

As a comedy, it's tops
I saw this on HBO a couple months ago and I just could not stop laughing. If you try to take this movie seriously and consider it a thriller, you will surely be dissapointed. But if you think of it more as parody, it will have you in stitches.