quan yuan

The Captain, the latest in ripped-from-the-headlines feature films pre-empted by real-life events of peril, takes firmly to its patriotic tropes as much as it does to the roaring skies above. It’s about as by-the-numbers as you would expect from a film of its kind whilst achieving its own usual highs and lows, and where its many strengths stem from its central focus on the crux of the film. It’s 2018 and a plane bound for Lhasa is set to take off from Chongqing. Director Andrew Lau’s primary introduction reveals tried-and-tested air force veteran and Sichuan Airlines pilot, Captain Liu (Zhang Hanyu), before diving right into the well-oiled machinized inner-workings of the airport and aircrew itself – from the weather analysis right down to the flight attendants. Much of the in-betweens of the film for a little over a half hour focus on growing some of the more interpersonal story arcs […]

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