tense and exciting when it finally gets airborne, Chinese disaster movie "The Captain" is an effective tribute to those who saved the day when the cockpit window of a Sichuan Airlines flight shattered over the Tibetan Plateau on May 14, 2018
much like any real-life flight, it all takes unnecessarily long to get going, with the viewer subjected to an extraneous series of safety checks and procedures, there to absolve our plucky crew of the freak events that follow
Andrew Lau's best film in years, though that is not saying much, this story of a pilot who miraculously lands an airliner after a windscreen blowout is well told
by Jamie Healy [Radio Times ]
