Meanwhile, the mercenaries flag down Frank in the helicopter, and by the time he realizes it's a trap it is too late. In the United States airspace system, the term Flight Level is only used at 18,000 feet and above - flight level is a measure of hundreds of feet (Flight Level 310 = 31,000 feet above sea level). 5 people found this … Both of these phrases are incorrect. This is confirmed when he states that he's came back for Jessie, clearly his love interest but not his wife. I did not like the fact that so many chapters ended with a cliffhanger and the following chapter switched to other characters at different sites.

Stallone's character is seen wearing a wedding band in earlier scenes yet in the film he is not married. (at around 23 mins) As the jets are flying in close formation, the DC-9 pilot is told to "slow to 150 knots" and to "descend to flight level 140". (at around 55 mins) When Gabe lights the flare, the night-vision point-of-view shot momentarily breaks up into static, like a faulty video display.

This is not how night-vision works. (at around 44 mins) When Gabe opens the first suitcase and looks in it, wind blows the top bills away, revealing that the rest of the money is just blank sheets of paper. (at around 29 mins) As the plane is crash-landing a rock clearly takes of the starboard wing and the rear third of the fuselage along with both engines which are behind as the forward section slides away.

However, at the same time, Qualen takes Jessie hostage when she waves down the helicopter, believing that Frank was flying it. (at around 1h 40 mins) Visible cables holding the crashed helicopter to the cliff. Cliffhanger (1993) Goofs. Once Jessie is safely down, however, Gabe throws the bag of money into the helicopter's rotors, shredding the money. Stallone's character is seen wearing a wedding band in earlier scenes yet in the film he is not married. But when he lances him on it it's in front of his face. SYLVESTER STALLONE Reviews: First Blood + Cliffhanger + Demolition Man by Jogwheel.

The goof item below may give away important plot points. Hal (an experienced mountaineer) is ordered to tie a rope to Gabe before his climb towards the first case. If this was a build up to induce maximum suspense I wasn't feeling it on an emotional level, and frequent chases and escapes became wearisome.

When people leave the plane, the plane is fully on the ground. Qualen orders his men to split up, allowing Gabe to dispatch two more of Qualen's men. Gabe reunites with Jessie and Hal as they were found by Treasury agents led by Walter Wright in a helicopter after they get a bead on a frequency between Travers and Qualen and he arrange a transportation as Gabe, Hal, and Jessie sitting on top of a mountain peak, just like Gabe, Hal, and Sarah at the beginning. While there, they receive a distress call from a group of stranded climbers. As the mercenaries split up to look for the other case, Hal is able to use the knife to wound Delmar, kill him with his own shotgun, and escape. (at around 1h 35 mins) Gabe talks to Qualen on the radio while waving to him with the arm holding the radio. Gabe and Jessie escape the falling debris in time. Cliffhanger – kuilun partaalla (Cliffhanger) on vuonna 1993 ensi-iltansa saanut toimintaelokuva, jonka on ohjannut Renny Harlin.Pääsylipputuloissa mitattuna Cliffhanger oli vuoden 1993 seitsemänneksi tuottoisin elokuva maailmassa. When Gabe & Jessie disturb the bats, he urgently tells her to get down as if there is some danger. (Which would have obstructed the view seen earlier). Impossible if she is dead.
Cliffhanger is a 1993 American action-adventure film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker and Janine Turner.Based on a concept by climber John Long, the film follows Gabe (played by Stallone, who co-wrote the screenplay), a mountain climber who becomes embroiled in a heist of a U.S. Treasury plane flying through the Rocky Mountains. In some scenes, the snow is obviously fake.

Superhuman. When they see the money from the first case fluttering away, Qualen believes Gabe is dead, and orders Hal to lead them onward.