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What struck me oddest is the absolutely flatness of the characters. We're dealing with the death of a man who's sister narrowly missed getting on a plane that crashed and all of the people around him. No one really seems sad - his mother, his sister, his boyfriend or the large circle of friends that he has (and his sister seems to share). There is way too much brevity even in the scenes his sister visits the crash site while it is literally still smoking. The scenes of his sister trying to grieve are forced and insincere and her interactions with the people around her are plastic and the dialog is like a 'movie of the week'. The mother doesn't seem to be either happy that her daughter survived nor the fact that her son did not.

The sets - the homes of the people involved and the offices - are also too perfectly staged. No one has clutter or personal mementos on display, the way our normal homes look. Phones and computers are always conveniently charged but never plugged in.

I only made it through about the first 30 minutes and found so much alarmingly wrong that I couldn't watch more. The production seems okay and the actors might be good if not for such a 'carefully' written script.

While others have commented with the number of gay characters, I found this okay, having been a "beard" for a number of friends. I didn't get through enough to comment on the Muslim characters.

Netflix has this out under the title "Brace for Impact" which apparently has been the title of about a million other movies. Anyway, we get our heroine who is afraid of flying and is in a support group to conquer her fears. They take a flight and it crashes but not before our heroine senses something and gets off just before take-off, leaving her gay brother on board to die. THEN, we discover that she is in fact an FBI agent who is the LEAD INVESTIGATOR for crashes! Kind of like an Admiral who is afraid of water!

It seems that everybody back at FBI HQ in Quantico knows her as a hothead who gets entirely too involved in her work but hey, she is just dedicated, right? It appears that she is always on some kind of forced vacation to cool off but that does not stop her from leaning on her co-workers for access to information so that she can indeed continue to investigate or from using them for sex just to take the edge off of a busy day.

She has a mother too, who seems to know her all too well and who also had some kind of problem with the gay brother being gay and the idea of meeting his "widower" is nauseating to mom but in a miraculous 180, she embraces the guy with no hesitation whatsoever. It helps that the dead sibling haunts his sister - I guess.

Our heroine has a variety of FBI co-workers, some Muslim for example, to let us know that Muslims are good - like gay men (who as usual in movies are handsome and virile and totally at ease and leave you with that "what a waste" taste in your mouth). She originally catches the boyfriend breaking into her dead brother's place (since he did not have key (hmm)) and who the dead brother had even already broken up with and never even mentioned on the ill- fated flight. Apparently, the deceased broke up with him "all the time." But it was great having a boyfriend "everybody wanted" even if it was a bore having to shoo them all way - all the time.

I wish I could say how the movie turned out but I could not take another minute of this stupidity.

Having read the other reviews I should point out a few things: 1. I am probably the most conservative person on IMDb, and 2. I loved this movie! I found the lead actress to be a very convincing portrayal of a damaged, slightly paranoid person with OCD tendencies. Her observational abilities were well established early on while her grief at the death of her brother rang very true. Her under-control reins slipping explosively is something I saw frequently in my professional life. I was gripped by her monomaniacal search for the truth and was delighted at her vindication. The rest of the cast were fine too. Sometimes I think folks watch movies nly in order to tear them apart in these amateur reviews. I recorded Brace For Impact and am a richer person for having seen it.

Okay so you know how Sharknado was so bad that it was good? Well this ain't that (yes I said AIN'T)! I read the 4.7 rating, ignored it, and watched this movie. Do NOT be like me! This movie is horrible. I can overlook the bad acting (and it is really bad), and I can overlook the obvious flaws (like getting arrested and the police not finding the watch that she stole from evidence, or slapping her supervisor and still not losing her job), but I'm having trouble forgiving the obvious stupidity of not just lifting up one of the mechanisms from the pan to keep the house and all the darn evidence from blowing up. And I absolutely will not overlook the nasty way she treated every single person still in her life. You know it's horrible when less than 1/4 of the way through the movie you find yourself wishing star of the movie had died in the crash too.

This woman is supposed to be a top notch investigator, but manages to blow up a house full of evidence by accidentally spilling a chemical while snooping around. If you love dumb movies like I do, this one is gold.

This film is so bad and on so many levels it's hard to find a place to start. Okay, so we have a crash investigator who's afraid of flying. Yes, that's deeply ironic. Her brother dies on the plane that she bolted off of in a panic attack, her mother is dealing with both the loss of her son and the miraculous sparing of her daughter. Anybody in these situations would be numb for months just trying to process all of this, but not these two women. Through a combination of bad writing and bad directing, we fast-track past the five stages of grief and submerge ourselves into the investigation by a disgraced former employee of the (wait for it) "National Air Crash Board". Seriously?

The real investigators of the NACB are too incompetent or wrapped up in politics to see the evidence that their former colleague screams at them, so it's up to our maverick heroine to bust the case wide open. Of course there's the obligatory Muslim investigator who spends a lot of suspicious time at his mosque; no red herrings here. She has her suspicions of who the culprit is early on in the story, and without any attempt at plot twists or misdirection, turns out to right in a ridiculous and unsatisfying ending.

I watched this through to the end because it became a study of bad storytelling. With so many good offerings available to us these days, do yourself a favour, skip past this one, and trust the trending titles on Netflix.

A dead brother, a dead boyfriend, and yet neither sister or boyfriend shed a single tear. What terrible acting, what terrible directing, what terrible script. The only sad thing is the background music. A complete waste of time.