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...have yourself a nice thriller set up, with Wolfgang Petersen directing hot off Air Force One and no less than Mel Gibson in the starring role, when--oops!--Mel decides he'd rather go elsewhere to do a pet project called Parker and then cash in on a ton of money by making Lethal Weapon IV for Warner...
...Mariah as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Just kidding...
...wishes, indeed, that the movie--written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, who knows his way around both tight spaces (Das Boot) and the more suspenseful aspects of presidential life (In the Line of Fire)--had retained its claustrophobic intimacy to the end. This, however, would have required its makers to forswear a new Hollywood habit of mind, which dictates that no big-time action film can conclude without an orgy of special effects. As Air Force One climaxes, a lot of people fly through thin air on thin wires. Too bad. The stalking struggle between reason...
...filmmakers get a lot of small details right, like the look of the onboard conference room (President Clinton arranged a tour for Harrison Ford and director Wolfgang Petersen), but much else is imaginary. That really cool presidential escape pod? The real plane has nothing like it. The parachute deck from which passengers leap to safety? Air Force One doesn't have such a deck. It doesn't even have parachutes--they can't work in a 747's slipstream. The gun locker right near the press area? No way. But who knows--maybe an escape pod is in Bill Clinton...
...Marshall?s single-handed efforts to coordinate a rescue effort by his Washington staff with his own attempts to set his people free using whatever modest tools (a table knife, a cell phone, a fax machine) come to hand," says Schickel. "One wishes, though, that the movie, directed by Wolfgang Petersen ('Das Boot,' 'In the Line of Fire'), had retained its claustrophobic intimacy to the end." As Schickel notes, "no big-time action film can conclude without an orgy of special effects. As 'Air Force One' climaxes, a lot of people fly through thin air on thin wires...