I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Others have already pointed to the stereotypes in connection with 9/11. I will focus on tech details of the aircraft. An American crew that operates a simulated (Russian) Tupolev 134 with a Bulgarian registration! They even had an elevator in the plane to make the audience believe this was a 747. The designer of the cockpit must have been either delirious or suffer from another major psychiatric disorder. That also goes for the special effects people. The airplane movements were totally unrealistic and probably the result of a doped flight simulator sequence. The film was aired by a commercial TV-station. It was enough to switch off after 10 minutes. It couldn't be more incredible.

If you like fake Hollywood cookie-cutter movies, this is the film to beat. Despite being overtly explicit with its support of racial profiling and portraying Muslim Arabs as terrorists and big hunky white guys as heroes, the plot line is overly-predictable and the characters shallow and annoying. The acting isn't bad, nothing too amateurish though. Certainly written in the post 9-11 heyday, continuing the Hollywood stance of marginalizing targeted branded minorities of the sorts done in Air Force One and True Lies. Also, the camera shakes throughout the movie, simulating the plane flying through air - gets annoying.

I just got through watching Air Marshal, I rented it after I saw him in Targets of Opportunity. He is hot. The movie was OK, I didn't like the special effects but Dean was great. I don't really understand the people who put down movies the way that they do. They obviously didn't have that big of a budget for this movie and they probably still made a lot of money. I looked it up and Air Marshal played in many different markets and is still on the shelf at my local Blockbuster, the girl behind the counter told me that they rented it a lot and sold a bunch of copies. People are so critical these days of people's hard work and they just enjoy sitting around with nothing to do trying to criticize people who are out there doing it. I'd give the whole movie Air Marshal about 6.5 stars but I'm giving it a 10 because I think a lot of people marked it way too low just to be funny or mean.

I really don't know how somebody can break off this movie like the Simeon did, there are worse movies.This is an action movie, has enough suspense, action and tension in it. Oke maybe the actors are not all that quality, but they played there roles well especially the terrorists. That's why I think this is a good movie, not for the theater, but it's sure more then good enough for a television movie.So if you love some action and tension in an airplane, this is a movie you would like. It's not great, but surely more then average and good enough to pass some TV hours.