it's a film that plays like a piece of dated and uneasy United 93 fan fiction, unpleasant and mostly unengaging in its attempt to use a real world-adjacent setup as the basis for an exercise in claustrophobic suspense
high above the clouds is where 7500 feels most visceral; but when the hijacking narrows down to a face-off between pilot and terrorist, things hit a cliche-riddled, insipid terrain
as Vedat and Tobias fight battles existential and real, Gordon-Levitt and Omid Memar wrestle manfully with their roles. Ultimately though their talent isn't enough to justify this film