Black Box (2021)

An impressive thriller with a remarkable performance by Pierre Niney, the pace is breathtaking, the production filled with good ideas.

This Film has nothing to envy to the English or American thriller, while having a very French and identifiable touch.

Fmovies: It is one of the best French movies I snd my family have watched. O completely recommend it! A lot of suspense! I hope they make a dvd or streaming with other languages subtitules. I watched it in a French Movie Festival.

A great mix of directing, editing, acting and script. This French thriller will stay as one of the best aviation suspense for long time. You'd keep on guessing until the end and this movie is an eye opener that plain-crash investigation is so complex as you have so many layers to hold responsible. All the French actors in the movie play the characters well especially the leading stars who play Matthieu and Neomie. Rush to the theater!

Black Box fmovies. A very good thriller that is set in the world of people who design, operate and regulate commercial aircraft, with a couple of nice twists. If a plane with over 300 people crashes it is unlikely a lone young fellow gets to identify the cause all by himself, and there are a few other technical 'stretches' but overall the movie is a very pleasant surprise. I believe some essential abbreviations were left unexplained: cvr stands for cockpit voice (and other sounds!) recorder, fdr stands for flight data recorder (things measured by the equipment such as airspeed, altitude, how the controls such as flaps are set and much more), and AP stands for autopilot. The movie accurately reports modern aviation issues, particularly the tension between automation and what is left to do for pilots. A 'feature' is decribed that corrects a plane's behavior as it goes into a 'decrochage' (I watched the original version), or a stall, essentially a situation where an airplane flies too slowly, loses lift and drops to Earth. This clearly referred to a recent, notorious piece of software from Boeing that sent two crowded 737 Max airplanes into the ground. We also get to see how new planes are approved, which includes a test with volunteers demonstrating everyone can get out on time when the aircraft sits on the tarmac (I guess the images shown were those of the mighty A380). What the movie also depicts well is the revolving door problem between airplane builders and the regulatory authorities (you have a similar problem in the drug industry and the FDA). In spite of the movie's title, you'll forever know that fdrs and cvrs are not, actually, black.

A successful French film that uses suspense, action and suspense very well. I watched with great curiosity and tension until the end, especially the voices and sounds heard from the black box and the silence following these noises made me very nervous. I didn't expect the movie to be that good.

I was disapointed, the story feels artificial, the twists seem forced. Twists for the sake of twists.

This is a piece of work rather than a work of art.

This morning I was asking myself, why that (thin) love scene?

To me the answer is, it's like the rest, forced.

And it's long.

But, of course, by actual Netflix standards this movie is good.