Leofwine_draca Review of Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1992 TV Movie)

Schmaltzy

[5/10 · 23 November 2019]

I caught this on TV under the title A THOUSAND HEROES. It's a typical schmaltzy TV movie with the hook of being based on real-life events. One again a plane goes out of control and has to attempt a crash landing with a heroic pilot the only one with the power to save the hundreds of lives involved. So far, so ordinary and indeed this does play out as a box-ticking exercise with precisely nothing happening that you don't expect. However, it does benefit from a better cast than usual, with Charlton Heston revisiting his '70s glory days alongside a sentimental turn from Richard Thomas and a minor but scene-stealing James Coburn.