Brace for Impact (2016) (aka: Final Destiny) Kerry Condon, Sheila McCarthy, Ennis Esmer, Rafael Petardi, Ian Lake, Kevin McGarry, Joel Keller Movie Review

Brace for Impact (2016)   3/53/53/53/53/5


Kerry Condon in Brace for Impact (2016) (aka: Final Destiny)

Finding Fault in the Flight

Sofia Gilchrist (Kerry Condon - Dom Hemingway) was a Flight Crash Investigator but found herself forced to take time off thanks to losing it during a previous investigation. It is during this time she tries to tackle her own fear of flying by attending meetings and going on a flight to Washington with her brother. But before the plane takes off Sofia panics and manages to get off, choosing to drive across country instead. It is on the drive she hears the news, the plane crashed and her brother was killed. Wanting to investigate but told no way by her superiors she decides to do so on her own and finds her former colleagues convinced the crash was down to a technical fault with the plane whilst the methodical Sofia believes it was something else.

Is "Brace for Impact", which also goes by the name "Final Destiny", a bad movie? No. Is "Brace for Impact" an entertaining movie? The answer is again No. That is the problem with it because if you look at the basic storyline which sees a crime scene investigator going rogue to investigate a plane crash in which her brother died is not that bad. Okay so in truth it is all a bit familiar as whilst plane crashes are unusual an officer going it alone to investigate, and a female one at that, is pretty routine when it comes to TV movies.

The trouble with "Brace for Impact" really comes down to the character of Sofia as I can appreciate that the writers decided to try and make her a tough, independent woman but they went to far and made her cold and unlikeable. As such there is one scene after another where the way Sofia goes about her investigating borders on being intimidation and whilst we are meant to be impressed by her drive and determination it ends up way too much.

What this all boils down to is that "Brace for Impact" ends up a pretty standard made for TV thriller with a woman doing her own investigating. The trouble with it isn't so much that it is bad rather that the central character is too cold to warm to and that makes the whole movie feel cold.


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