WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

shakercoola The final film in the Airport series resorts to risqué humour and implausible villainy. The photography of Concorde, a British-French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, is impressive. It's understandable producers would see Concorde as the new and sensational staging for a disaster. George Kennedy takes the lead role in proceedings, and frankly, for a man of his talents, and credit to the series, he deserved a better script. With less of a stellar cast we are left with an empty vessel - a contrived plot and below par acting. The adventure is drab because it is filmed with the kind of simplicity associated with an episodic television drama. It's not the special effects that impedes suspense but the lack of storyboarding and direction. Antecedent films had scale, but Airport '79 has a stub of an ending with screen curtains pulled across quickly as if the writer had given up. The audience deserved better for sticking with it. In fact, the scene was set for a potentially original finale with a new form of danger, and escape.

calvinnme Fourth and final entry in the series that began in 1970. That first film helped kickstart the all-star big budget disaster trend in 70's cinema, and this final outing helps just as much at putting the final nails in the genre's coffin. Of course "Airplane" the following year would make fun of the entire previous decade's worth of disaster films.Alain Delon gets top billing as the captain of the title craft. With Susan Blakely and John Davidson as reporters, Robert Wagner as a crooked arms dealer, Sylvia Kristel as the head stewardess, Eddie Albert as the airline owner, Sybil Danning as his trophy wife, Avery Schreiber as a Soviet Olympic coach with a deaf daughter, Andrea Marcovicci as the oldest Russian Olympic gymnast ever, Mercedes McCambridge as her busybody chaperone, Cicely Tyson as a mother to a child desperately in need of a heart transplant, Nicolas Coaster as the doctor to perform it, David Warner as the dieting flight engineer, Bibi Andersson as a prostitute, Jimmie Walker as a pot-smoking sax player, Charo as Margarita and Martha Raye as the woman who can't stay out of the bathroom (no, really).George Kennedy costars as Patroni, the only character to appear in all four films. This time he has a larger part as co-pilot of the title passenger jet, on route from the US to Paris, as Wagner's evil arms dealer hatches numerous inept plans to bring down the craft and destroy incriminating evidence. The dialogue is trite and banal as usual, and the various relationships and mini-dramas amongst the bloated cast never rise above the mundane.Keep your eyes open for an early appearance by Ed Begley Jr as Rescuer #1. Like many films of the era, the studio also cut together an extended version for TV broadcasts that added even more subplots and characters, played by the likes of Jose Ferrer, J.D. Cannon and Alan Fudge, but the version I watched was the original.

jmillerdp When you have the hilarious turkey that is "The Concorde...Airport '79!" See what I did there? Used three dots in my title, just like the movie did! And, you know what? Both make as much sense as this movie does! They obviously spent a reasonable amount of money on this movie. So, why have such a hilariously bad script! As it is too often, it's the script that cripples the movie.The premise isn't the worst. What is the problem is that there isn't just one disaster, there are three. And, the trick is that the first two happen on the U.S. to France leg of the trip. Even though the plane has to do loop-de-loops to avoid missiles on both occasions, and the plane was under attack, everyone pretty much gets back on for the France to Moscow leg! What are the odds? Zero, of course! Take a wild guess about what happens on the second leg? Hmmmmm... (See, more dots!) It all deals with an illegal arms dealer who wants to kill off his girlfriend, a reporter who is on to his nefarious schemes.A crazy cast is along for the (very bumpy!) ride. Chief among them is George Kennedy, a mechanic in the first three "Airport" movies who is all of sudden a pilot. Okay! That is only the first of many aeronautical inconsistencies. Plus, lots and lots of logical inconsistencies. The main one is, why did I watch this? And, why am I taking time to review it? Oh my gosh! I make as much sense as this movie does! ** (2 out of 10 Stars) ...Yeah, I'm being VERY generous!

StuOz I remember walking out of an Australian movie theatre in 1980 and saying to my brother..."That was a disaster movie but what was the disaster?". Granted, I was a child at the time.This Airport movie is different to the other three, no big sea dive or big collision, Airport '79 just seemed to be all over the place! However, the film has improved with age and two recent viewings have been very much enjoyed. It has a touch of The Towering Inferno (1974) with Robert Wagner still being up to no good, the miniature effects work of the Concorde itself is pleasing to my eyes and the film starts with a very uplifting Lalo Schifrin theme tune.Perhaps Schifrin was trying to be the new disaster movie composer as in 1980 he would score Irwin Allen's When Time Ran Out as well.There was to be a 5th Airport movie but the poor box office takings for Airport '79 put an end to all that. Too bad as all four Airport films are a special part of the 1970s and still survive repeat viewings to this day.