Air Force One Is Down
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| Original title | Air Force One Is Down |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 180 minutes |
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| Director | Cilla goods |
| script | Niall Leonard |
| production | Tom Reeve |
| music | Guest Waltzing |
| camera | Maxime Alexandre |
| cut | Anthony Combes , Anthony Combes |
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Air Force One Is Down is a two-part American television film released in 2012.
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Captain Fergus Markey (Jeremy Sisto) of the UN peacekeeping forces succeeds in arresting the Serbian war criminal Arkadi Dragutin (Rupert Graves). He is sentenced to life imprisonment without parole before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. After the verdict, he threatens to “tear Europe's heart out” in the courtroom. Despite a ban on contact, Dragutin manages to get in touch with his deputy Milos Petrovic (Ken Duken) from the Dutch maximum security prison in which he is incarcerated, who tells him that everything is going “according to plan”.
After Dragutin's conviction, the American President Harriet Rowntree (Linda Hamilton) announced a trip to Serbia to negotiate with the local government about Serbia's membership of NATO. At a reception at the Russian Embassy in London, the Russian Defense Minister Dimitri Kozinski (Carsten Norgaard) said that Serbia, as a sovereign state, should of course be allowed to join NATO. British Foreign Ministry official Steven Featherstone (Jamie Thomas King) flirts with American journalist Francesca Romeroh (Emilie de Ravin) before being contacted by Irena Burak (Camila Arfwedson), a Russian FSB agent who lives near Kozinski he obviously has a relationship. This informs him that Kozinski should be eliminated by the FSB (Russian Domestic Intelligence Service) because of his pro-Western stance in the course of a coup. She suspects that Kozinski's assistant Alexej Medev (Jakob Cedertun) is the mastermind and asks Featherstone to warn Kozinski. When the two want to leave the embassy, they are attacked. Featherstone is knocked down and Irena Burak is kidnapped. Featherstone passes the message on to Kozinski and Medev is transferred. At the UK Foreign Office, Featherstone is informed by his boss, Gillian Barry (Amanda Donohoe), that Medev was a British mole and that his unauthorized intervention had ruined a long-standing operation. He is therefore transferred to a British consulate in Serbia.
Petrovic kidnaps the computer hacker John Mackenzie (Jamie Treacher). Francesca Romeroh takes part in a trip in Air Force One for the first time as a journalist. Petrovic succeeds in penetrating the Air Force One system from a castle ruin in Serbia with the help of the kidnapped superhacker Mackenzie and simulating a pressure loss in the cabin, so that everyone in the machine puts on the oxygen masks and becomes unconscious due to oxygen mixed with anesthetic gas. Only Romeroh stays awake because at the crucial moment she was looking for her dropped cell phone under the seat. Petrovic lets the plane land by remote control and brings the president and Romeroh, who was discovered by his people, out of the plane. Then he starts the machine again and crashes over the Adriatic, which none of the occupants survived.
In a small Serbian town, Captain Markey and five Serbian police officers try to arrest Petrovic. However, the house in which Petrovic is suspected turns out to be a trap and the Serbian police officers support Petrovic. However, Markey manages to avoid the trap and eliminate the Serbs except for one, whom he sends back to Petrovic with the news that he is on his heels. Markey then goes to the nearest British Consulate, where he meets Featherstone. You are attacked by a sniper. It turns out, surprisingly, that the attack was against Featherstone. The sniper's car and sat nav come to the landing site, where they watch Air Force One land and take off. They follow the kidnappers to the ruined castle in which Petrovic has taken up residence. There Petrovic gives the order to shoot Romeroh. However, this succeeds in eliminating the responsible Vladimir and freeing the president. During their escape, they meet Markey and Featherstone. Except for Markey, however, they are captured again shortly afterwards. Petrovic sends the Pentagon the demand for the release of Dragutin, otherwise the president will be tortured and murdered in 12 hours. Markey contacts Gillian Barry by phone, but she does not take him seriously and a supporter of Dragutins interrupts the conversation and arrests Markey. Dragutin is taken out of prison by American soldiers and the president is brought out of the castle. Romeroh manages to free himself and Featherstone. The two flee in a van. Dragutin is meanwhile being brought to Serbia by the Americans and released there, he cuts an implanted transponder from his forearm and can no longer be located. Featherstone and Romeroh, actually not a journalist but an agent, follow Petrovic, who takes the president to a field barn, which, however, is mined by the criminals before they leave the scene. Featherstone and Romeroh manage to cross the minefield and enter the hut without triggering the booby traps in the hut. The president is released, but triggers the minefield on the way back. The president is unconscious and is therefore left for dead by Petrovic's people when they capture Featherstone and Romeroh again, and subsequently rescued by arriving American navy soldiers. Dragutin has now reached the castle ruins. Markey is brought in too. Dragutin reveals that he wanted to have Featherstone killed as a favor and exposes Romeroh as an FSB agent.
Featherstone and Romeroh are locked in a dungeon that is slowly filled with water. Markey finds himself alone in the woods. Dragutin tied his transponder around his neck with a plastic band. When the Americans locate the signal, they launch a cruise missile - believing it is Dragutin - that is tuned to the transponder to kill the carrier. Dragutin watches as the cruise missile explodes in the immediate vicinity of the transponder.
(End of part 1)
Dragutin hacks a Russian TU-160 , takes control and removes the pilots from the machine using the ejector seat. Markey, who had escaped the explosion of the cruise missile by jumping into a crevice, is able to free Featherstone and Romeroh from the rapidly filling dungeon at the last second. The three watch the approaching TU-160 and want to warn Kozinski of an impending coup. The TU-160 has two bombs with considerable explosive power on board. The American President is meanwhile recovering in a US military hospital in Landshut. [Note: It must read: Landstuhl (at the US military base Ramstein in Palatinate / Germany), the largest US military hospital outside the United States.]
Markey, Featherstone and Romeroh overwhelm the Dragutin henchman who had previously arrested Markey. Romeroh informs Kozinski, whereby her real name Nadia Sieri is also known. Nadia tells Kozinski that she suspects there is a mole in the Russian Ministry of Defense. A short time after the phone call, the three of Dragutin's people are tracked down. They manage to eliminate the criminals. Since the phone line has been cut in the meantime, no support is to be expected, so the three decide to attack Dragutin's lair alone. While Markey provides a distraction, Featherstone and Nadia, with the help of the hacker Mackenzie, manage to get control of the TU-160, which has since restarted, and to crash it over the Swiss Alps. Before that, Dragutin apparently sends a message from the plane that he wants to bomb London within two hours. Petrovic manages to kill Mackenzie and capture Nadia, Featherstone and Markey. He wants to shoot her when the American navy soldiers arrive, kill Petrovic and arrest the rest of Dragutin's men.
Nadia is awarded a high medal in the Kremlin and Kozinski sends her to Rome on vacation. Featherstone receives the Legion of Merit from the American President and is transferred to Rome by his boss. Markey, on the other hand, is merely fired by the UN.
Through a comment from his boss, Markey realizes that Dragutin was only faking his death and that his real target is not London, but the Vatican in Rome, where he wants to wipe out the whole city with one of the two bombs from the TU-160. He visits Nadia and Featherstone in Rome and together they manage to track down Dragutin and manipulate the remote triggering of the bomb, before Markey hands over the detonator to Dragutin in exchange for Nadia and Featherstone and the promise of an hour to evacuate the city. Dragutin breaks his word and tries to detonate the bomb. Markey has made the transmitter unusable, instead prepared it with plastic explosives and detonates it the moment Dragutin recognizes the trap.
Kozinski is arrested in Moscow because Nadia can prove that he was connected with Dragutin and that he was the head of the conspiracy aimed at coming to power in Moscow. It is similar in London with Gillian Barry, who had been in Kozinski's service for a long time.
Finally, Nadia, Featherstone and Markey meet in Rome. The two flirt hard at Nadia, but she plays a lesbian relationship with a friend and leaves them behind.
review
"Given the woodcut-like villains, the good actors make the best of their job. The first part is still exciting, repetitions and subplots slow down the action. Flashbacks are supposed to provide explanations, but rather show dramatic weaknesses. With the novel by Alistair MacLean, the two-parter has Not much in common anyway. CONCLUSION Weakens as the length progresses "
Web links
- Air Force One Is Down in the Internet Movie Database (English)