Emergency Declaration (2021) on Netflix
NR20212h 20mActionDramaThriller
Detective Gu In-ho traces a terror threat video to a man who has boarded flight KI501 from Incheon to Hawaii. Aboard are Jae-hyuk, who is afraid of flying, and his daughter Soo-min.
- Netflix3.3/5
- IMDb6.8/1012,592 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes65%
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Plot summary
At Incheon International Airport, a man named Jin-seok questions a staff member about the busiest routes, is refused an answer, and in a restroom pushes a cylindrical object into his armpit. Jae-hyuk, who is afraid of flying, is in the terminal with his daughter Soo-min on their way to Hawaii; Jin-seok approaches them with unwanted questions, and Jae-hyuk takes the girl away. Detective Gu In-ho, working from a terror threat video that has gone viral, ties it to Jin-seok and learns that he has boarded flight KI501. Jin-seok has carried a virus onto the plane inside an asthma inhaler and releases it in a bathroom. A passenger who enters after him collapses, and Transport Minister Kim Sook-hee assembles a counterterrorism task force on the ground to find a way to land the aircraft.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Emergency Declaration (2021)
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- The production airlifted an entire scrapped plane from the United States to build the aircraft set, modelled on the early Boeing 777, and mounted it on a gimbal 7 metres in diameter and 12 metres long that could rotate 360 degrees.
- Emergency Declaration was sold for ₩13 billion and released exclusively on Coupang Play; by skipping VOD service, the film recovered its production costs out of the down payment.
