Flight Crew - Danila Koslovsky (2016) - Brief Glimpse of Central

As I continue to scrape the barrel for HK-related foreign movies to include, I figured it would be a good time to start featuring films that have only very brief glimpses of Hong Kong. I guess I already started this with The Gray Man (and its single composite view from The Peak overlayed with a house in Los Angeles) but there are actually quite a lot of movies out there that although aren't set here they do quickly show some local scene as part of the storyline.

In this instance, its a film called Flight Crew (or simply The Crew, or even Экипаж in its native Russian). It stars Danila Koslovksy as Alexey, an ex-military pilot who switches to commercial flying under the watchful eye of a mentor, Leonid (Vladimir Mashkov). Alexey consistently crashes in the simulator but Leonid gives him a chance and is left humbled when Alexey performs and evasive manoeuvre during a landing to avoid another plane that Leonid had failed to notice.

Anyway, the pair end up landing in a volcanic disaster zone to help evacuate stranded people, against strict orders, and end up being punished despite saving lives. The movie is a bit hard to track down but someone has uploaded a partially (and, in parts, hilariously) dubbed version to Youtube. 

It's included here because of a "Brief Glimpse" of Central as part of a montage of all the places that the two pilots are supposedly flying to during their day-to-day duties. The single screen shot is included below.