Offers a plausible explanation for TWA 800. I enjoyed it but I'm 66 years old and remember when movies had substance.
Realistic. Accurate.
I was browsing through Amazon Prime and came across this title. I noticed that it revolved around Flight 800 and it touched a chord because I am not far from Long Island where that flight crashed.
I'm old enough to remember this stuff very well (MSNBC was about three days old when TWA 800 took place. The new network was suppoosed to combine NBC news withcutting edge MicroSoft technology.
The premise of this film looked interesting, but within the first 15 minutes, the main character sees his smuggling partner gunned down in front of him, then comes back home to find his woman in bed with another man. His reaction to both of these things is monotone, almost expressionless.
Unfortunately, I have to agree with the reviews so far written about this movie. It seems the budget was fairly limited; the pace of the movie was very slow in the main; acting was not of a particularly high caliber throughout.
With cloak-and-dagger suspense, betrayal and backstabbing, political conspiring, shyster-mobster and intertwined human relationship all woven and fabricated together, allowing you to know some truth and facts behind Iran-Contra scandal during Reagon administration.The movie could be much much better, if 1) The script could be more condensed, the tempo from scene to scene, setting to setting, locality to locality much much faster, 2) with more production budget, 3) a better director, 4) more appropriate casting 5) better post-production editing.
Where to start?This movie should rank somewhere at the top of B-rated movies.
