7500

Directed by : Takashi Shimizu

Starring by: Leslie Bibb, Ryan Kwanten, Amy Smart, Jamie Chung

CBS Film

Airplane crashed…

The director choose a very hot topic for this year movie according what had happened in a past few months with the missing of Malaysian Airline MH370, the shot down of MH17, the tragic accident of Air Asia QZ 8501, and the newest from German Wings. And we surely want to know really what happened during the accident in some heavy equipment that they always call a safer transportation tools compare to others.

The scene start with a heavy turbulence in the air which shaking everyone inside, then the calling from the tower for the flight 7500, which remains me of what happened with QZ 8501, that had no respond but noisy sound and hissed of a weird noise like ghost. After that it moved backwards from the event that occurred four hours before the shaky turbulence did happened…the gathering of the passengers before the plane take-off.

The flight 7500 was departing from LA to Tokyo and took passengers which had their own secret, never crossed in my mind that something like that could happened but it absolutely right, I never thought of anyone else when I took a flight but I believe they had their own problem or secret life that similar to flight attendant Laura who got secret relationship with the Pilot Captain, Pete who’s married, or couples like Brad and Pia who had secretly broken up their marriage, or like newlyweds Rick and Liz who supposed to have their sweet times of honeymoon but Rick had a little problem with the perfectionism Liz that sometimes snob him, or like Jake who live his nice life as a surfer but had a profession as a thief in order to support his hobby, or a young woman Raquel who looks single but when she entered the plane toilet she had pregnancy test on her, or the gothic girl Jacinta who looks stupid with her looks but on the other hand like books and had super quotes for life and death, or like Lance, the businessman who obviously got he’s own secret with strange wooden box that didn’t let anyone, including the flight attendant, helped him carrying it.      

Well, the four leading actresses had act in a horror film before this, Amy Smart (as Pia) in Mirror (2008), Jamie Chung (flight attendance Suzy) in Sorority Rows (2009), Scout Taylor-Compton (Jacinta) in Halloween (2007), and Leslie Bibb (flight attendance Laura) in Trick or Treat and I said the board scene floats perfectly well because it’s not too fast, as only for the bridge before the plane start to fly but explained the detail character of the passengers with easy-going style.

 The quiet planned disturb by the riot when Lance suddenly had panic attacks and blood come from his nose. The businessman shaking very hard and weirdly so Laura asked for a doctor from passenger on board to help. Brad who had paramedic helped her but Lance can’t manage it and died. The situation on board became gloomy but Captain Pete decided not to land the planned but continued the flight plan to Tokyo. Therefore the flight attendance move Lance body to First Class upstairs, and move all the First Class down to second class downstairs.

In this movie passengers and flight attendance were shown going downstairs and entering flight deck but as you know, actually, flight deck on 747 is on the upper floor, not down floor. I don’t know what the reason of level change here but my best guess is a lot easier for the crews to build first floor as the center of the activity and the upper floor as lower activity, instead of the other way around. Logically, it’s easier to build up rather than down.

The turbulence that make Lance panic came once again, Laura who realized that the cabin pressure had dropped from plastic water bottle that collapsing try to warn passenger to buckle up and seat tight but it happened so fast and not entirely passenger back to their seat at that time. By sudden the turbulence shakes very hard and make oxygen mask dropped. The shake seems almost crashed the plane but finally the pilots could take control of it.

After the heavy shake, the terrors start to occur. Passenger begun to disappeared strangely, Liz saw the Lance appearance on her laptop screen, Jake who saw the dead man alive when he takes Lance’s Rolex watch – when the dead body turned around when Jake took a picture on a selfie cam, I think that’s cool – Raquel who being dragged down into the toilet, Jacinta who had experienced pulled blanket when she got sleep make some of them realize that something going wrong in the plane after Lance death. They decide to investigate who Lance was and take a look what inside the man’s box.  

They found out a shinigami doll inside the luggage. Jacinta inform the group that the doll is a being that collected people’s souls after they die, but only if they let go of whatever is holding them to this world. From the woman’s hair that also found with the doll, they suspect Lance bring his victim on the plane so Laura decide to find the dead body from the luggage compartment in the below section.

The coolest thing about this movie is we never know when the death comes, but when it came on us we suddenly realized that anything we do in earth today is no longer important because the beauty is about to come and if we're not ready to accept the death itself, we could end up like poor Liz at the end of the scene who’s being left behind in empty plane room for she’s not ready to face death and let go whatever holding her in this world, as she said before to Jacinta that she's not expecting death could happened in her life at that time…