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Review: ‘Plane,’ the tale of a plane that gets struck by lightning, crash-lands into an island of terrorists but is saved by Gerard Butler. I enjoyed it

Mike Colter, left, as Louis Gaspare and Gerard Butler as Brodie Torrance in "Plane."

In the pitch meeting stage, “Plane” carried the title “The Plane,” and now it doesn’t. All excess cargo, even if it’s three letters — out the window! There’s too much to handle with this thing already!

Extreme turbulence, a lightning strike, a crash landing onto the bullet-strewn island of Sulu in the Phillippines … a commercial airline pilot teaming up with his toughest passenger (a former French Foreign Legion,

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