Airport '77
Universal Pictures | Release Date: March 11, 1977 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
36
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The movie’s a big, slick entertainment, relentlessly ridiculous and therefore never boring for long. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Here we go again--it's time for a 747 to meet disaster once more with a host of colorful characters to worry about as they go down--and this time they go down 50 feet into the ocean. Read full review
50
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
The story’s formula banality is credible most of the time and there’s some good actual US Navy search and rescue procedure interjected in the plot. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyStaff (Not Credited)
Silly as it is (c’mon, helium balloons?), Airport ’77 is the most suspenseful of the series, with death looming over a planeload of Oscar winners, each trying to out-ham the others before their oxygen runs out. Read full review
40
The New York TimesVincent Canby
Airport '77 looks less like the work of a director and writers than like a corporate decision. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
First-rate schlock; overlong and incredibly stupid, but that's part of the formula by now. Read full review
20
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Disaster movie in which a converted luxury airliner laden with guests and art treasures is hijacked by terrorists and crashes into the sea near an oil-rig. The survivors then spend their time trying to overact their way out of the claustrophobic script, which threatens a death even more slow and painful than suffocation or drowning. Read full review
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