MIND BLOWN (2016)
TV movie sci-fi about a psychic super-team.
Bell UH-1 Huey takes off carrying troops on a secret mission.
Huey gunship flies over hills near L.A.
Low-flying Huey is hijacked by the superheroes.
Huey gunship (photo-real animation effects) lands at the secret base.
SULLY: MIRACLE ON THE HUDSON (2016)
Clint Eastwood directs Tom Hanks in this drama based on the true story of a plane crash in NYC.
Flying over the river, an AS-355 TwinStar pilot spots the jet-plane glide down.
There’s also an N.Y.P.D. Bell 205 with police divers on a rescue flight.
BUSHWICK (2017)
This low-budget sci-fi action movie is about new civil warfare in America.
It begins with helicopter views of the city, with Black Hawk transports seen briefly.
The heroes see an AH-64 Apache Longbow on patrol.
Other special effects include a Bell 222 that hovers above the street.
A Bell 222 gets shot down, crashing off-screen.
One aerial scene uses a camera fixed underneath a chopper.
This British action movie is about a Special Boat Service commando.
An AS-350 gunship flies to rescue troops on a secret mission.
The A-Star lands with survivors back at heroes’ camp.
DEEP BLUE SEA 2 (2018)
This low-budget monster-movie is a sequel to sci-fi horror Deep Blue Sea (1999).
Before the final scenes, there’s a drone-copter flying towards the ocean labs.
Predictably, the drone is eaten by a shark.
INFERNO (2016)
Directed by Ron Howard, this mystery-thriller is a sequel to The Da Vinci Code (2006), and Angels & Demons (2009), in the ‘Robert Langdon’ trilogy.
One action sequence features a quad-copter drone, used by Italian
police to search for the fugitive hero, in an estate’s gardens in
DISHOOM (aka: Kapow, 2016)
This Bollywood comedy-actioner is about mismatched cops.
The movie includes stunt flying with a Bell 412 during one of the chase sequences.
TRUE MEMOIRS OF AN INTERNATIONAL ASSASSIN (2016)
The hero jumps onboard to fight a henchman, and rescue a woman, before the Huey crashes into the water.
In a meta-fictional re-write of that intro, the hero jumps out just before the crash.
This new scene begins with a clever bit of surrealistic animation - where rotors scatter letters from a re-typed page - for the dissolve.
A Huey also features in the climactic stunt sequence where the hero dangles from the landing skids, while the heroine fights the villain.
The low-flying chopper hits a tree, spins out of control, and the heroes have to jump into a jungle river.
