Air Force One Is Down is a low budget ‘made for TV’ 2013 action television miniseries divided in two parts loosely based on a story by Alistair MacLean that was improvised on a 1981 novel by John Denis.
The film stars Jeremy Sisto,[1] Jamie Thomas King, Emilie de Ravin, Rupert Graves, Ken Duken and Linda Hamilton.
Fergus Markey (Sisto) is given a flashback of children who were killed by an infamous mass-murderer by the name of Arkady Dragutin, and decides to avenge them.
At Dragutin's trial in The Hague, the judge sentences him to life imprisonment as a punishment for masterminding wars in the process of creating a so-called "Greater Serbia."
Channel 7 news reporter Francesca Romero (alias of her real name Nadia Sierri) is having conversation with Steven Featherstone (King).
A woman named Irene Burak warns him Kozinski may be executed by the FSB, due to a strong connection with the Western world.
With Market and Featherstone in front of the airstrip, the aircraft arrives, and a group of cars quickly kidnap the President and Romero as the latter tries to sneak away.
The President regains consciousness at the hideout, and Petrovic orders a man to execute Romero, but she manages to distract him and escape death.
In the Kremlin, Kozinski decides to hand Nadia a vacation to Rome, and Featherstone boards a rebuilt Air Force One at Heathrow Airport.
The trio end up in Rome for a real vacation with their own plans; Fergus on rugby finale, Featherstone on opera, and Nadia on playing lesbian.
MacLean wrote up the story as a 120-page novella about Air Force One being hijacked while hosting a number of oil company executives.
[5] Filmdienst too was very negative about the film, stating, "Intricate action thriller with lots of twists and turns that at least partially distract from the absurdity of the plot.
[7] Ultimately, poorly choreographed action scenes, low budget special effects and props, lack of trained stunt doubles and mediocre performances detract from the classic original story and a strong main cast.