The Concorde... Airport '79 4K 1979

Let's recall the classic. Severyanin wrote: Original, you have faded from copies! And these words are quite appropriate for the fourth series of the franchise about ‘Airport’. The plot is completely far-fetched. ‘Terrible’ compromising information ‘accidentally’ ends up on board one of the civilian aircraft. This means that a certain group will “order” both a “military attack” on the plane and an attempt to blow it up. This is a pretext to show how the crew and passengers find themselves in a difficult situation. Moreover, the outcome is quite predictable.

Just as the storyline with “secrets” is simplistic, so are the characters. What can be said about the heroine Sylvia Kristel? It is not even clear how she feels about her office romance with her colleague, Delon's character. In the film, she is simply cute.

And why did Delon's character think he was in love? Why does this very cynical and restrained man strive to confess his love so often? How does this fit in with the fact that he orders a prostitute for his friend?

And this seems to be the most interesting moment in the film. In a short conversation, Bibi Anderson gets George Kennedy to tell her everything about himself and his experiences and to give her some hope. Together, these two offer a truly interesting and ambiguous composition.
As for the rest, it's a celebration of clichés. An African-American jazz musician smokes in the toilet. A fashionista hides a dog in her coat. Delon smells of perfume. Serious at work, sweet outside of it.
It should be noted that this formula worked. Despite its obvious mediocrity, the film received fairly high box office returns worldwide. I suppose the reason for this was the expectations surrounding Alain Delon. The very fact that the famous French actor starred in a major Hollywood project was of interest primarily to Europeans. And even though there was not much to play in the film, viewers seemed to expect the same old clichés they had seen many times before.