REVIEW: 'Dark Flight 3D' Suspends You in the Turbulent Air, and You Just Want To Crash

If there is one thing commendable about Thai horror, it is the effort to create new things. 'Dark Flight' is already an example of that, stirring an absurd blend of Asian horror and Western cliches. 

Enter New (Marsha Wattanapanich), a flight attendant who boards SA 407. The departure of the plane is like its usual routine, the destination is likewise: Phuket. Despite of this, New knows something more. SA 407 is the same plane that New boarded years ago, that, involved a crash. Many died, she was the sole survivor.

Vengeful ghosts won't settle for no payment. They died and New did nothing about it. Hence when the timing is perfect and New boarded the plane, they started appearing ensuing chaos and madness that will soon transform to a relentless and terrifying fate.

'Dark Flight' is basically the lab-rat of the modern Thai horror. Being the first Thai horror in 3-D, awful flaws with the visuals were perfectly understandable. I grasp this personally, some other people might not dig it however. Blames could not put to the latter category, the movie's tone was drastically sacrificed with unrealistic CGI that eventually resulted to a unconvincing movie.

The Isara Nadee movie suffers from a badly written script that ultimately bugs down almost every aspect of the experimental spectacle. Filled with many gaping plot holes, the movie suspends you in the turbulent air, and you just want to crash landing. It was too tedious to handle.

While the experience is agonizing enough, Dark Flight's admission to few interesting points is still clear. Marsha Wattanapanich plays well her character, although too safe and reserved. The other characters were generally cliched and negatively amplified were played by actors whose performances were describable with the same descriptions.

It's heavy to compare movies, but 'Coming Soon' always felt superior (despite 'Coming Soon's' own issues, which are a handful, by the way).

The movie was not scary and actually unwanted, but the climax proved it could line to a B- asian horror. 'Dark Flight' is not entirely a disaster; it's just an experiment that went on trial-and-error. It was the "error".

GRADE: C