Film Review – Plane (2023)

Gerard Butler has certainly found a place for himself in the film industry. He’s been playing tough guys stuck in desperate survival situations for the most part, doing relatively well with such career ambitions, breaking up the norm with a few different turns over the years (such as 2018’s “The Vanishing”). His latest, “Plane,” doesn’t offer a sizable acting challenge, but Butler tones down the brawniness this time out, tasked with portraying an average airline employee suddenly thrust into a live-or-die situation on a Southeast Asian island. Of course, the production isn’t completely committed to the everyman concept, but it gets close enough for this tense, ultraviolent thriller, giving Butler something to play as the body count rises. Director Jean-Francois Richet (“Blood Father” and 2005’s “Assault on Precinct 13” remake) has his limitations when it comes to emphasizing terror, but he delivers occasional surges of fury in this competent nail-biter, using Butler’s grit in all the right ways. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com