InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

utgard14 The Airport series comes to a close with this final entry, a movie so awful that it can only be enjoyed as an unintentional comedy. The plot this time has pilots Alain Delon and George Kennedy trying to land a Concorde jet airliner safely while avoiding bad guy Robert Wagner's comical attempts to destroy it by . If you've seen the other films in the series, you will notice George Kennedy's character, Joe Patroni, has a different job in each one. This is the first time in the series he was shown to be a pilot. But it's our good luck that the movie didn't care about continuity because if there's no Patroni in that cockpit, this wouldn't be the gem that it is. Many of the movie's most hilarious scenes and lines belong to Patroni. His evasive maneuvers flying the Concorde and the flare gun scene in particular are the stuff of legend. Even him getting laid turns into comedy gold. Frenchie Alain Delon plays well off of Kennedy. Robert Wagner makes for a woefully inept villain.. The rest of the Love Boat-style cast includes Susan Blakely, Eddie Albert, Sylvia Kristel, David Warner, Mercedes McCambridge, Jimmie Walker, John Davidson, Cicely Tyson, and freaking Charo! What a lineup for a series that once had former A-listers like Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston, Jack Lemmon, and Jimmy Stewart. It's not the best Airport movie but it is a lot of fun. The special effects are embarrassingly poor. It's an absolutely ridiculous and pathetic film when taken seriously and judged on its legitimate merits. But if you like movies that fail so spectacularly you can't take your eyes off the screen, this is for you. It's one of the great "so bad it's good" movies and I recommend anyone who enjoys those to give this a shot.

thos_walter Ordered the complete AIRPORT movie set recently. Always been a fan of the Airport series. First three, Airport (70), '75, '77, I've seen numerous times and always liked all three. For some reason I've never seen Airport '79 though. Ladies and gentleman, this has to be the all time hokeyest movie I have ever seen in my 50 years of life! Bad acting. Bad writing. Bad plot. Stupid plot. Bad special affects, even for 1979. Just bad everything. Honestly, after the first 15-20 minutes I was ready to turn it off. I was like, when is this movie going to get going. I cannot believe all the well known actors in this movie actually consented to being apart of this joke of a movie. I don't think there is one movie I have ever not said you have to see at least once until I viewed this one. I would NEVER recommend this movie to anyone even as a joke and I will never watch it again.

nicklevys How this movie managed to get a rating as high as 4.1 is beyond me. This as got to be one of the worst movies ever.Joe Patroni after being an executive in the first sequel, which could have been logical, is now a pilot. Not only that but a pilot for more than 30 years when he told in the first movie that he was licensed only for taxiing.The plot is so exaggerated it becomes boring and makes no sense at all.Almost every action scene is bad but that stupid idea where you can, (roll the drums) Open a window, flying at Mach 2, to shoot a flare gun at a fighter plane is the most insane. By far the most idiotic move ever seen in whatever movie from whatever country in history, period. No C-list horror movies ever went that low. Compared to that, Jason Vhoorhees's seventh resurrection seems like something you'd see every week in your local newspaper.Finally, everyone and I do mean everyone who knows anything about a plane will tell you that nothing in this movies remotely make sense.I almost forget to tell you about the fakest special effects in the decade. I think they add explosion with more realism on Sesame Street.My only fear is that somebody would sees this without having seen the first one, and think that the series is entirely like this. It already a shame that the original airport has anything to do with this, it would be even worse that people interested in good disaster movies would not see it because they seen airport 79 first.

Coventry All the entries in the 70's disaster movie franchise "Airport" – a total of four movies spread over one decade – have been chastised by critics as well as regular action movie fanatics for being too grotesque and ludicrous. Me, personally, I liked the three previous installments a lot, but I can't but admit that the swan song in the series is a completely laughable effort. The supposedly adrenalin-rushing script is absurd, the stereotypical characters are cartoonish, the acting performances are wooden and the action sequences are downright hilarious. The set-up and plot of "The Concorde" is faithful to the previous movies. We have a cast full of acclaimed names, often in inferior little roles, and a screenplay that brings together pretty much everything that can go wrong on an intercontinental flight. The prestigious Concorde aircraft is ready to fly from New York to Paris and then onwards towards Moscow in celebration of the 1980 Olympics. One of the passengers is the female journalist Maggie Whelan, who's in possession of some important evidence that will unmask her ex-fiancée Kevin Harrison as an illegal weapon dealer. It's most vital for him that Maggie never reaches Moscow and thus he tries to kill her, as well as the rest of the Concorde passengers and crew, subsequently through nuclear missiles and sabotage. Luckily for the passengers, the Concorde has two of the world's biggest macho men behind the steering wheel with the French Captain Paul Metrand and the American veteran pilot Joe Patroni. "The Concorde: Airport 79" is a dumb and fairly pathetic film, but fortunately enough it remains amusing and never bores for one second. The sight of an hi-tech advanced airplane making loops in order to evade missiles is definitely bad in an entertaining way and the hammy performances of A-list stars are fun to observe as well. Particularly Robert Wagner is tremendous as the villain. With his straight face and eloquent monologues, he represents the prototype of Bond-movie villains and I strongly suspect that Mike Myers hired him to play Number Two in the Austin Powers' movie solely based on his performance here. Alain Delon looks quite bored and soft-erotica star Sylvia "Emmanuelle" Kristel is rather unnoticeable when she keeps her clothes on. Fun bloke George Kennedy is the only actor who appeared in all four of the "Airport" movies, so it's truly a shame that he plays his biggest role in the worst of the series. The dialogs are lame and some of the clichéd sub plots are horrendous (does there really have to be an emergency donor organ transport in every disaster movie?), but I certainly didn't regret the two hours of my life that I wasted on watching this film.