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Audiences rate it 20 points higher than critics do. The highest scoring of the 2 titles in its series.
Synopsis
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists, who demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandos have been called in to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.
Ratings
IMDb5.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes14%
Metacritic37/100
Audiences rate it 20 points higher than critics do.
539 audience votes
Key crew
- Menahem GolanDirector
- James BrunerScreenplay
- Menahem GolanScreenplay
- Alan SilvestriOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Chuck NorrisMajor Scott McCoy
- Lee MarvinColonel Nick Alexander
- Martin BalsamBen Kaplan
- Joey BishopHarry Goldman
- Robert ForsterAbdul
- Lainie KazanSylvia Goldman
- George KennedyFather O'Malley
- Hanna SchygullaIngrid
- Susan StrasbergDebra Levine
- Bo SvensonCapt. Campbell
- Robert VaughnGen. Woodbridge
- Shelley WintersEdie Kaplan
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Themes
rescuemartial artsairplanewar veteranfightpatriotismhijackingrescue missionbased on true storyairplane hijackingcovert operationdelta force