Hugh plays Ian, a somewhat pompous, uptight businessman who is one of the survivors of the plane crash. He helps all the other survivors to build a new plane they name the Phoenix to fly them out of the desert. If you haven't seen the original movie, then you get a feeling going into this that Ian is a bad guy or that, somehow, he was responsible. But he isn't really a bad bad guy. He's just kind of a jerk. I didn't like the movie overall. It felt rushed and it seemed to keep setting up and building up tension that never panned out. Both with Hugh's character and Giovanni Ribisi's. I kept waiting for the big reveal that one of them was an arms dealer who was setting this whole thing up or something along those lines and none of that ever really happened. In fact, there really was no bad guy-- if you don't count the environment itself. Plus, the ending was somewhat cheesy and it ended so quickly that when the credit came up I was like, "that's it?!" But, hey, we get to see Hugh without his shirt on, and that's always a good thing. So put the movie on mute and fast-forward to Hugh's parts. ; )
CLIPS:
» Funding cut
size: 3MB
length: 18sec
summary: Ian informs the girl that their funding has been cut because they've yet to find oil.
» Back of the plane
size: 3MB
length: 23sec
summary: Ian looks down on the other passengers and basically tells the man sitting next to him to go to the back of the plane.
» Nervous
size: 1MB
length: 05sec
summary: Ian is a bit nervous when they hit some major turbulance.
» Mayday
size: 1MB
length: 13sec
summary: Ian asks Tom if he managed to send a mayday before they crashed.
» No harm in trying
size: 4MB
length: 32sec
summary: Ian tries to get his cellphone to work. When another passenger makes fun of him, he tells him that there's no harm in trying.
» Should have been watching him
size: 5MB
length: 32sec
summary: When they realize one of their crew has gone missing, Ian says that everyone should have been paired up so this wouldn't have happened.
» Corperate responsibility
size: 14MB
length: 1min34sec
summary: Ian thinks his company will send a search party for him because he's an important person and it's their corperate responsibility. Yeah, right.
» Thinking
size: 5MB
length: 29sec
summary: Just a moment where we se Ian thinking and working.
» Drink more, finish sooner
size: 3MB
length: 24sec
summary: Ian thinks that working in the day will actually be a good thing. If they drink more they'll be more clearheaded and get more done in a shorter amount of time.
» Vacant/Occupied
size: 5MB
length: 37sec
summary: In a funny montage, we see Ian using the crew's makeshift bathroom.
» Negotiations
size: 13MB
length: 4min41sec
summary: The crew needs Ian's when they find some guys who look like evil ninja nomads walking through the desert. Ian speaks many dialects of the area so they need him to help talk to them, but things go horribly wrong.
» Caught
size: 3MB
length: 20sec
summary: The crew finds one of the evil ninjas still alive.
» Please
size: 2MB
length: 15sec
summary: Giovanni's character is an asshole and when he fights with Tom (Dennis Quaid's character), he refuses to work on the plane design until they each say "please." Ian stands up and asks nicely.
» Pulling
size: 11MB
length: 1min08sec
summary: After a sandstorm covers the plane, Ian is the first to start digging it out when everyone is really depressed. We then see a barechested Hugh (and others) pulling the plane with their own body weight.
» Ian flips out
size: 20MB
length: 2min07sec
summary: After finding out that Giovanni's character only builds model airplanes, not real ones, everyone gets pissed off. But Ian kind of freaks out and grabs a gun and intends to shoot Giovanni. Ian eventually lets go and cries a bit in frustration, but he doesn't shoot him.
» Epilogue
size: 4MB
length: 39sec
summary: After they fly out of danger using the plane they all built, we get an epilogue detailing what everyone's doing now. Ian is on the golf course, enjoying golfing his days away, apparently.
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