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7500 (2019)

Director:
Patrick Vollrath

COUNTRY
Austria/Germany/USA

Genre
Thriller

NORWEGIAN TITLE
7500

RUNNING TIME
92 minutes

Producer:
Patrick Vollrath

Screenwriter:
Maximilian Leo
Jonas Katzenstein


Cast includes:

CHARACTER ACTOR/ACTRESS RATING
First Officer Tobias Ellis Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Vedat Omid Memar ½
Gökce Aylin Tezel -
Captain Michael Lutzmann Carlo Kitzlinger -
Kinan Murathan Muslu -
Daniel Paul Wollin -
Nathalie Aurélie Thépaut -

 

Review

In everything from scope to execution, this is a classic made-for-TV-movie – in our day and age meaning made-for-streaming. It’s the feature film debut for German filmmaker Patrick Vollrath, who shows that he is not afraid to tackle controversial subjects and is also looking for nuance in situations that are often construed as binary. There have been a few films about air terrorism in the wake of 9/11, most notably United 93 and Flight 93, and Vollrath’s story is tapping into that same segment, but arguably with a little less validity. The film’s best achievement is the tension and suspense it creates – especially in its first half – using only one location and a handful of actors. The ever-dependable Joseph Gordon-Levitt is part of the reason the film works so well; his ability to convey repressed anxiety and collected focus transports you into that cockpit with him. Unfortunately, reaching the 90-minute-mark ultimately becomes a burdensome task for Vollrath. His film runs out of steam and the director is forced to engage the autopilot in order to reach his somewhat anticlimactic conclusion.

Copyright © 23.08.2021 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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