Wednesday, 28 February 2018

President Under Siege

PRESIDENT UNDER SIEGE 
(aka: The Prime Minister, 2016)

This movie is a crime thriller about kidnapping and political assassination.


Although the DVD cover artwork includes Apache and Black Hawk images, no such military helicopters appear in this Belgian movie.


There’s just a police MD 902 and an MD 500N seen on-screen, parked in the background for the airport scene.



Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Gold

GOLD (2016)

This movie drama is about US prospectors and gold miners in Indonesia during the 1980s.


There's a Sikorsky S-76B flying along the coast. 


The same S-76 helicopter also flies above a city.


The best rotary action sequence has a military EC-145 (Airbus H145), perhaps in role of an exported UH-71 Lakota, that soars over the jungle for a crook’s suicidal jump from 1,000 feet.





Tuesday, 20 February 2018

Last Face

THE LAST FACE (2016)

Directed by Sean Penn, this drama is about doctors in Africa.


An MBB Bo-105 medevac helicopter picks up a doctor from a refugee camp, where survivors of warfare try to climb onto the Bolkow’s landing skids when it lifts off.






While it’s parked on a hill near a hospital tent, the Bo-105 is destroyed in a raid by rebels on horseback.


Later, a U.N. Mi-17 Hip helicopter flies over another hospital camp.    




Friday, 16 February 2018

Our Kind Of Traitor

OUR KIND OF TRAITOR (2016)

This crime drama is about a British couple’s involvement with the Russian mafia.


A silver EC-135P2 (Airbus H-135) takes off, to fly a mobster from the French alps to London, but the chopper explodes over the mountains.  


Friday, 9 February 2018

Night Manager

THE NIGHT MANAGER (2016)

This TV series of six episodes is a spy drama starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie.


Two AS-350 flights arrive in Switzerland, where one A-Star lands at a snowy resort.


Later, the villain flies in a Bell 206L LongRanger to his villa estate in Mallorca.