

Flight of the Phoenix
Out of the ashes, hope will rise.
When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $45M
- Box office
- $21M
- Language
- English
- robbery
- based on novel or book
- sandstorm
- affectation
- pilot
- gobi desert
- mongolia
- survival
- disaster
- airplane crash
- struggle for survival
- desert
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG-1317 Dec 2004
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A4 Mar 2005
- Physical121 Jun 2005
United Arab EmiratesAE
- Theatrical16 Feb 2005
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM21 Jul 2005
CanadaCA
- Theatrical14A17 Dec 2004
ArgentinaAR
- PhysicalVideo3 Aug 2005
AustriaAT
- Theatrical8 Apr 2005
BahrainBH
- Theatrical2 Feb 2005
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical20 Apr 2005
BrazilBR
- Theatrical4 Mar 2005
- Physical14Fox Home mj.gov.br28 Mar 2005
- Theatrical14Fox Film mj.gov.br30 Mar 2005
ChinaCN
- Theatrical28 Apr 2005
CroatiaHR
- Theatrical3 Mar 2005
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Flight of the Phoenix was released on 17 December 2004.
Audience reviews
3- D2/10
drystyx
4/18/2023
This could be one of those "so bad it's good" movies some day. It's a remake of the classic film about men in a hopeless situation when their small plane crashes in the desert. Hope comes back when one of the men reveals he can make an airplane, and the others believe him. In such a story, the subplots and side stories make the story. Here, the subplots and side stories are cartoonish and contrived. The characters …
- C5/10
CinemaSerf
9/4/2023
I think to be fair to this reimagining of the story, it tries to be different from the 1965 version. They shift the location and update the dialogue and up to a point that gives it a fighting chance. A plane gets caught up in a sandstorm over the Gobi desert and crashes. It falls to the survivors to work out a plan before the water runs out. Sadly, though, aside from the efforts from Giovanni Ribisi as designer "Elli…
- N4/10
Narate
12/11/2024
_"The design is perfect, the only flaw is that we have to rely on you to fly it."_ I grew up always seeing the poster but never watching this. Now that I have seen it, I can see why. It is a little boring and just not that interesting. Something tells me the original must be the one that has all the flavor.
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