About the Movie

Commercial pilot Brodie Torrance, a former RAF pilot from Scotland, flies Trailblazer Airlines Flight 119 with 14 passengers and three cabin crew members from Singapore to Honolulu via Tokyo. Among the passengers is fugitive homicide suspect Louis Gaspare, who is accompanied by an RCMP officer en route to Canada.

Taking advice from one of his superiors, Brodie takes a shortcut across the South China Sea, but the plane is heavily damaged by a storm and a flight attendant and the RCMP officer are killed during the turbulence. The plane makes an emergency landing on what turns out to be Jolo island in the Philippines.

The movie started showing in Manila theaters on January 23, 2023.

Sen. Robin Padilla's Reaction to the Movie

Sen. Padilla, himself a former action star before his foray into politics, urged the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) to ban the film’s showing in the country. Padilla noted how the film’s narrative says that Philippine authorities have been scared off by the rebels on the island.

“[The movie even said] ‘They went down somewhere in the Jolo island cluster. It’s run by separatists and militias. The Filipino armies were not there anymore,” the senator said.

Action Taken by the MTRCB

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The Trailer

The Full Movie