With heavy weather inbound they attempt to climb above the storm instead of rerouting around it.
No good will come of this.
CW: air crash, occasional brutal violence
This is pretty good for this kind of thing, mostly because it's split into quite varied sections that aren't all action and has Colter handling the ultimate badass role while Butler maintains a degree of being a believably macho airline pilot who used to be in the RAF.
The passengers & crew are a series of stereotypes like "asshole businessman", "Instagram girls", "English Geezer", "stoic Stewardess" and "nervous young co-pilot" but they do at least get names and hints at character in small scenes that show the writers and director gave at least a little bit of a damn about them.
The worst part though are the cardboard cutout "Phillipine separatist" villains who take the slot "African Warlord and his men" would have in a lot of noughties action movies. Shifting the location to one less used doesn't make this any less lazy.
Like I said though it shifts location/pacing a fair bit, there's some creeping around, scenes at the airline where a troubleshooter is sending mercenaries to stage a rescue, hostage scenes, a big finale firefight and more time on the actual plane than you'd expect at first.
A perfectly serviceable action movie 6/10. Not going to stay with you but there's a lot worse in the great carousel of endless tat on Prime.