Flight of the Phoenix / Night at the Museum - movie review

Flight of the Phoenix – starring Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi & Jacob Vargas. An operation plant was shut down in Mongolia and Dennis was sent to pick up the crews from the site via his airplane. Midway, the plane’s engine/system gave way to the bad weather and their airplane plummeted down to the desert area. Stucked there without any communication tools and with mental torture setting in, one by one got killed. Want to know how?

One of the stucked up guy, in the last moment, provided them with a genius way of getting out from there alive. How? To re-build the airplane according to a small scale model airplane design seen in a book. In the midst of re-building, an unidentified group of travellers (with weapons) camped near their plane and the employees banded together to confront them. One obstacle after another, their plane was up and to start the plane, it required firepower. Only few rounds from the flare gun left …….. but the plane was only meant for a 2 seater passenger. How are they going to ride away?

Quite entertaining with suspense at times. You could have guessed the ending with some people dying along the way. If you have plenty of time, this is one show you can watch, otherwise forget about it and I found it absurd in the way they got out of the desert with that plane in the end. Not realistic.
Night at the Museum – starring Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney & Bill Cobbs. Before reading the whole review, I’m giving a thumbs up for the movie for the creativity and originality of it. About this guy who can’t stay in a job long enough and due to that his family kept moving house till his teenage daughter couldn't stand her dad and blasted him one day. With that incident, he was determined to get a stable job and stay at it. Was interviewed for a job as a night security guard at a nearby natural museum.

Was all alone and the graphics designers did a good job in getting various historical animals & humans to move as if it was real throughout the museum. A SHOCKED Ben found out that at midnight, all historic animals and humans figures could move. Ben has to settle a dispute between the western cowboys and Caesar's roman armies, teach the pre-historic humans about fire, learn to play 'fecth' with the T-Rex dinosaur and his adviser in his difficult hard night times was the former US President, Theodore Roosevelt.

Towards the end, Ben was able to bring all animals and humans to work together to catch a band of thieves that wanted certain magical stuff from the museum. Hilarious, unique and very entertaining.
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