Altitude

AMC 25 likes to show their, “This should have went Direct-to-Video” joints in theater.

So I was really siked to see this movie, but what I saw did not live up to my own hype.
An FBI agent is offered a lot of money to protect a criminal from plane hijackers. That’s the basis form the summary.
If you look at the poster you would think Dolph Lundren is the FBI agent and Denise Richards is the person that hired him.

With Chuck Liddell as the bad guy. That’s what it looks like, right?

That’s how they get ya, but it’s Richards as the FBI agent, down on her luck cause she got demoted for what her superior claims is her female emotion getting in the way of her job. Which is very unfair. If you watch the beginning of this film I’ve seen action heroes, including Lundren himself do far stupider things on the clock in other flicks and only end up having their boss tear them a new ass hole before putting them back on the streets. You could say it has something to do with the new era of realism going into this movie, but I don’t.
Dolph Lundren actually plays the plane hijacker(barely, as his crew does most of the work and he seems to be there just to take up most of the poster with his big head).
Now because the beginning of the flick tells the story of a hostage negotiator who screws up badly during her last mission, I kinda assumed that this movie would be about her trying to redeem herself. That would make sense as the hijackers she faces are not terrorist and their battle is not only about money but vengeance against the dude who took their money( The one who hired Richards to protect him(Who is not Chick Liddell by the way, another one who did little to nothing yet gets his big head on the poster).
Instead the movie looks like that Liam Neeson joint from a few years back Non-Stop, only way way watered down, as it seems they spent most of their budget making that plane hanger look real (And paying to have Lundren do a few days of work so they can put his big ass head on that poster.).
As much as I’d like to tell you this was a great suspenseful action thriller with a woman at the helm I can only tell you it was a sloppy effort.  Me personally, I don’t see how hard it is to adjust from male lead to female lead in this type of movie, but from the looks of things, The film makers didn’t have a clue on how.