Flight of the Phoenix (2004)

Boring! This "thriller" stars Dennis Quaid and Giovanni Ribisi. The movies excitement is over within the first 20 minutes as the airplane carrying a bunch of recently fired oil rig workers crash lands in the middle of the Gobi Desert. The remainder of the movie is spent with characters bickering back and forth about what to do and who is in charge. Ribisi plays Elliot, a plane designer and far and away the most interesting of the characters who faces off with Quaid shortly after the crash. There is a plot twist close to the end that is not enough to save the movie from the monotony that you sit through for the majority of the film. The movie also picks up right at the finale and ends on an up note right after some dark events. This transition didn't seem quite smooth enough. Flight of the Phoenix crashes with 2 of 5.