Ground Control 1998 123movies

Watch: Ground Control 1998 123movies, Full Movie Online – Chicago air traffic controller Jack Harris is a wreck with guilt nightmares after a major airplane crash that killed all 174 aboard. He gives up the job and designs air traffic control games in Phoenix. Five years later, his ex-colleague T.C. Bryant, also transferred to Phoenix, desperately asks him to help out short-term, given desperate staff shortage on New Year’s Eve with a bad storm predicted. A power outage hits, and the storm has caused their workload to multiply. Colleagues welcome him in very different states of mind but he quickly proves his capabilities, alas then the fatal memories start creeping up again: will his lack of self-confidence cause another drama?.
Plot: An air-traffic controller quits after a plane crash but, years later, goes to help an airport that is in the path of a terrible storm.
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Ratings:

	5.6/10 Votes: 2,554
	40% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 47 Popularity: 4.98 | TMDB

Reviews:

Solid, Focused Air Thriller Entertainment
6 December 2010. A year before the more quirky comedy drama PUSHING TIN (1999) came out starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thorton, the more mainstream disaster thriller GROUND CONTROL was released starring television’s 24 Keifer Sutherland with co-starring roles for 1986’s Kelly McGillis (TOP GUN, 1986) and Kristy Swanson (FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF). GROUND CONTROL is relatively traditional, predictable, interestingly in a way less sensationalized, dramatized than PUSHING TIN and less relational and more focused fascinating active air control dynamics which in some ways makes this more watchable than average dramatic thrillers. **Added January 9, 2012 – With a decent storyline that keeps building, this is good entertainment. What makes this dramatic thriller on solid ground is its use of stereotypes but in a way that never overextends their use, the irritated man’s eventual response to the babies, the way the ending wasn’t as pat as most dramatic endings are with its more realistic and, literally, twists and turns, and even the non-verbal exchanges at the end make for a believable and satisfying landing.**

Ouch. “Inaccurate” is as kind as I can get about this film.
I’m a retired air traffic controller and simply put, I was amazed that this garbage was released. Another IMDB commenter said that, “[t]he performers did their homework when it came to radio protocol and terminology.” Well, they may well have done their homework, but none of the well-studied proper phraseology came out of their mouths. (“…maintain flight level six zero zero zero?” Oh please…) What’s more, the instructions given to the aircraft either made no sense or were so vague as to be dangerous. And other parts (telling the pilot to spin twice: “gimme $4,000 worth”–a VERY old ATC joke) were nothing more than apocryphal.

In the past 20 minutes I’ve written and deleted a dozen examples illustrating why this is such a bad movie, and THAT exercise appears to have been cathartic enough that I now feel that I can just go to bed. But allow me this one indulgence: having spent 25 years in this field (no, not as a “sim” controller… the airplanes I worked had real mass), this movie actually angered me. What in the world is the point of replacing believable control instructions with the trash that appeared in this film? This is a movie built around air traffic control, for heaven’s sake. Why give such short shrift to the lifeblood–the very structure of that undertaking? Millions of folks who would be interested in this subject matter will LISTEN to what’s being said and reject it as absurd. Somebody hired an ATC consultant for this film. Why would they disregard his advice? Bottom line: there is no excuse for the intellectually lazy approach this film took to ATC. It wouldn’t have cost any more to do it right, and the dialog would have been at least as poignant. What’s more, they wouldn’t have alienated those of us who love this stuff. From my standpoint, NONE of this movie was “right on.”

P.S. I had a hard time sitting still for this film, so I’m sure I must have missed it, but could somebody explain why it is called “Ground Control?” Ground Control is the position in a tower that works airplanes on the surface of the airport. There is nothing in a Center that has anything to do with Ground Control. While I did see tower scenes in this movie, I don’t recall Ground Control having a big part to play. Somebody PLEASE tell me that this wasn’t called “Ground Control” because the writers thought that that was the proper name for air traffic control in general. Because if THAT was why they did it, then NOBODY did their homework…

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min), 1 hr 38 min (98 min) (Showtime)
Budget 500000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
Director Richard Howard
Writer Talaat Captan, Robert Moreland, Mark Shepherd
Actors Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Sean Leonard, Bruce McGill
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm