'Plane' offers nothing new. The script is a compilation of clichés and predictable scenes from disaster genre films. The cinematography is conventional without much appeal. The soundtrack goes completely unnoticed.

In other words, we're in the company of a classic popcorn movie. And it's quite well done. There are no superfluous digressions, no silly damsel-in-distress side story, just a heroic air captain and his foreign legionnaire sidekick in a fight for their lives against brutal, heavily armed hostage-takers on a remote island in Southeast Asia, where a passenger plane has been forced to make an emergency landing with no way to contact the outside world. In other words, elementary thrills and suspense a la 'Die Hard' and 'Con Air'. And Gerard Butler in top form. Recommended for all boys who love to turn off their brains and be carried away for about two hours.