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Flight of the Phoenix (2004) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Flight of the Phoenix (2004) a score of 2.4551 out of 4

based on (164) reviews

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Excellent

(8)

Very Good

(88)

Good

(59)

Fair

(9)

Poor

(0)

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Harvey S. Karten

In the starring role, Dennis Quaid plays the part of Captain Frank Towns, whose unhappy role is to fly his twoengine C119 propellerdriven aircraft for an oil company to pick up workers whose hunt for oil has proven fruitless. The newly laidoff people...read the complete Flight of the Phoenix (2004) review at Harvey S. Karten

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MovieFreak.com (Dennis Landmann)

Flight of the Phoenix is the kind of action movie that's entertaining for most of the time but is also predictable. The script by Scott Frank ( Out of Sight ) and Edward Burns ( The Brothers McMullen ) gets into the main story in considerable time, with...read the complete Flight of the Phoenix (2004) review at MovieFreak.com (Dennis Landmann)

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eFilmCritic.com (Scott Weinberg)

John Moore's remake doesn't come close to upstaging its predecessor...and yet it doesn't exactly humiliate itself either....read the complete Flight of the Phoenix (2004) review at eFilmCritic.com (Scott Weinberg)

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Three Movie Buffs (Eric Nash)

A group of people gets stranded in the dessert after their plane crashes. They argue, bury the dead and cry. Then they all set out to build a plane out of the parts from the wreck. They do some more arguing and crying until they all learn to get...read the complete Flight of the Phoenix (2004) review at Three Movie Buffs (Eric Nash)