7500
If you ’ve studied philosophy ( and/or watchedThe Good Place ) , you ’re credibly conversant with the Hellenic ethical dilemma known as the Trolley Problem . German director Patrick Vollrath ’s feature debut,7500 , is more or less a magnetic declination on the same concept present in the descriptor of a low - budget thriller where almost all the action is constricted to the cockpit of a commercial plane . At the center of everything is Joseph Gordon - Levitt , a talented multi - hyphenate who wrings as much emotion as anyone could hope to squeeze out of such a minimalistic premise . But despite the clever setup for this ( almost ) single - set B - film , some half - baked plotting and inauspicious stamp keep7500grounded .
Gordon - Levitt champion as Tobias Ellis , an American co - pilot program venture on a everyday flight from Berlin to Paris when , shortly after takeoff , terrorist wielding jury-rigged weapon system ramp the cockpit , gravely wounding the plane ’s captain ( Carlo Kitzlinger ) and hurt Tobias before he stop them and contact ground control to plan an exigency landing . When the terrorists threaten to begin hit rider , Tobias is face with7500 ’s version of the Trolley Problem : keep the cockpit locked and land the plane before too many masses are killed , or permit the attackers in and risk them all pall . And if that was n’t enough , one of the air hostess who ’s being held hostage ( Aylin Tezel ) is Tobias ' girl and mother of their two - year older shaver .
Related : The 25 good Movies On Amazon Prime Right Now
The first one-half of7500(which Vollrath also scripted ) starts off impregnable , using security photographic camera footage from the entrance and security checkpoints in the Berlin airport ( fuse with some unsettling , low - rumbling silence ) to generate suspense and establish a sham - documentary esthetic for the film at large . Vollrath sagely allow for the action to play out in real - time from there , first by visually map out the inside of the plane ’s cockpit ( lingering ominously on the feed from the security camera in the Asaph Hall nearby , as in force adumbration ) as Tobias and his co - workers run through their pre - flight checklist . Sebastian Thaler ’s claustrophobic and constrictive cinematography captures the feeling of being stuck in a cramped aircraft in these moments , in many of the same way Damien Chazelle’sFirst Mandepicted the discomfort and potentially unreliable nature of early space travel .
Although we only get a few transactions with Tobias and the others before all hell on earth part easy after takeoff , it ’s enough to make them sense like substantial citizenry just doing their job ( be they joke around or , in the suit of Tobias and his girl , discussing their plan for the future ) , and make you implicated about their well - being later on . Gordon - Levitt is especially compelling as the humble everyman draw to make horrifying decisions while scarcely having outer space to even begin considering the liveliness - shatter consequences , and he beat a fair amount of mileage out of the many scenes where Tobias is struggling to keep his emotions in - check and safely land the plane , all while terrorist are literally knock at his door .
By the time7500enters its 2d one-half , though , the story devolves from a tense plight into a series of obvious setup / payoff and cliches , losing much of its urgency and momentum in the mental process ( even for a pic that execute under ninety minutes , minus credits ) . This is also where the too bad decision to make the villain Arabic / Moslem stereotype amply rears its top dog ; since the film has throttle pastime in being a sociopolitical allegory , this comes off as casual ethnic profiling and lazy shorthand for why the antagonists are attacking the planer in the first place.7500half - attack to humanize the new of the terrorists , Vedat ( Omid Memar ) , by showing how unsealed he is about what they ’re doing , but even then it feels more like a way of filling out the plot and less a sincere effort to get viewer to empathise with the fictional character or give him deepness the way a likewise naturalistic thriller likeCaptain Phillipsfleshes out its antagonist .
There ’s something to be said for the way7500forgoes the distinctive grandstanding often found in the Hollywood variations on this type of Bel - movie in favor of more real - worldly concern heroism and a fib highlighting just how terrifying it would be to actually have the great unwashed ’s lives in your hands . But while it might not be as excessively histrionic or blatantly racist as like U.S. films in the yesteryear , it ’s still pass from many of the same regressive pattern and becomes more and more tired , the further along it goes . Perhaps if7500had gone deeply with its political watching and subtext , it might ’ve full work out as the stripped - down , yet persuasion - agitative , thrill ride it want to be . In stead of that , it construct for an once in a while vivid experience , but a bumpy flying on the whole .
NEXT : Read Screen Rant ’s Mr. Jones Review
7500is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video . It is 92 min long and is grade R for violence / terror and language .
7500 is a thriller set aboard a commercial aircraft piloted by Tobias Ellis, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Directed by Patrick Vollrath, the story follows the intense events that unfold when the plane is hijacked by terrorists. The cockpit becomes the epicenter of tension as Tobias navigates a harrowing situation to ensure the safety of the passengers and crew.
7500 is a thriller lay aboard a commercial-grade aircraft pilot by Tobias Ellis , played by Joseph Gordon - Levitt . Directed by Patrick Vollrath , the tale follows the acute events that unfold when the aeroplane is highjack by terrorists . The cockpit becomes the epicenter of latent hostility as Tobias navigate a torturing site to ensure the safety of the passengers and crowd .
