Airport

Rating ***/*****, or 5/10

Slow paced and melodramatic picture takes a look at the daily events around an American airport, complete with blizzard and plane hijack. Only the latter provides for some worthwhile scenes of disaster, since the rest is too often quite dull to watch. This feeling was reflected when this movie and The Poseidon Adventure were proclaimed responsible for starting the cycle of disaster movies of the Seventies, most of which also weren't great, including two Airport sequels that also focused mostly on the catastrophes.

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg

Directed by George Seaton

USA: Universal Pictures, 1970