Reviews

It's really hard to take this movie seriously, especially to anyone who is fascinated by the D.B. Cooper story. I think my biggest problem with the movie is that it just starts with Cooper jumping out of the plane. There is no stage of the actual highjacking and little realism of the jump itself (it happened at night time during a storm). During the actual highjacking, the bomb was not left behind by the highjacker and there was never a stewardess locked in a bathroom. The movie seems to be a parody of the events with a cheesy-hillbilly soundtrack. You almost expect a Jerry Reed/Cledus cameo or even Cheech & Chong at some point. My problem is they had the opportunity to do so much more with it and failed miserably. In recent years, the alleged highjacker was supposedly identified (see Brad Meltzer's decoded). I, for one, love the D.B. Cooper story and hope that someone will serve the story justice, but may be somewhat undeserving seeing as how the "Dan Cooper" who made the infamous jump literally flew from justice himself.

Whose idea was it to let Ulli Lommel make serial killer movies? His movies offer little information about the events that happened, lack character, character development, and are generally tasteless. His portrayal of killers are very one dimensional with over-usage of swear words. He also offers little insight to what people and cities were going through. And while we never really found out who the real Zodiac was, he was not bald with decodable symbol tattoos on his neck. Another criticism, the setting is too modern. In general, his movies do a bad job of bringing you back in time, which is somewhat insulting to his own age and experience. I don't feel like putting as much effort in this review as Ulli puts into his movies (not much), but he really should just stop.