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Flightplan [2006]
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Credit for that must go to its lead actress. In the hands of a lesser talent, this is just the kind of movie that could descend into obscurity. But Jodie Foster, as always, injects her character with a believability and a drive that’s hard to resist, and here is no different. The plot sees her flying her late husband’s body back home on a commercial flight. As her and her six year old daughter settle down, Foster soon falls asleep, awaking to find no sign of her child, and no one who can even remember her being on the flight. Has someone taken her? Is it all in Foster’s mind? These are the questions the film circles, and for a good hour of its running time, it’s compelling Hollywood-style entertainment. The cracks soon appear when you examine the film more closely though, and it’s as if Flightplan is just as aware of that as everyone else. The decision therefore to keep the film moving at a good pace is a wise one, leaving the viewer free to switch their brain off and just enjoy the ride, without querying too much the glabrous script that rarely makes as good use of the premise as you’d hope. Yet the film still works. It may, after the credits have rolled, have failed to live up to its potential, and there’s a good hour of dissection waiting to happen afterwards. Yet, crucially, there’s also the best part of a couple of hours of good, solid entertainment in it for you too.--Jon Foster
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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
If you can forgive plot holes that you could drive the airliner of your choice through the middle of, then Flightplan is an effective, pacey Hollywood thriller, that somehow manages to hold everything together in spite of its challenging plausibility.
a bad plot and a few good performances in an average thriller
Review date: 2008-07-29 Rating: 6 out of 10
When waking up on a plane, Kyle Pratt finds her daughter missing, but no one can recall Pratt ever bringing her daughter aboard.
The plot outline sounded fantastic and with the excellent montage to open, I had very high expectations as I sat back and put my feat up ready to be entertained, but by the end, I simply felt confused and let down.
Jodie Foster (Silence of the lambs) stars as Kyle Pratt, and gives a good performance as the grief-stricken aviation engineer. And as good as she is, it is due to the script that lets the film down, with little and boring dialogue and an inconsistency that ruins what could have been a tremendous exciting narrative.
The plot is very inconsistent through many stops and starts in the event to try and track down the missing daughter. The plot and the pilots try and remain professional but come across as being slightly silly and very farfetched and unrealistic in its own context.
The use of the plane could have added more to the nausea of the genre but was poorly used. Though the wide space and dimension is sued, none of the timing and situation is executed as efficiently and exciting to justify the true meaning of the genre.
There is also a feeling of inevitability about who the villain is, but there are a few twists encoded to keep the viewers guessing. However these twists put me out of the plot and into another idea as to what was happening and made the plot muddled.
Despite the flaws in the plot, there is still a feeling of excitement as regards to what has actually happened to the child, helped along by some drastic measures. Like many in the claustrophobic thriller genre, there isn't much realism but still an ability to keep you glued to your seat to find out what has happened.
There are plenty of unanswered questions left hanging at the quite ridiculous climax, but there are good performances and an exciting feel that will keep you entertained to the end
7/10
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Too many plot holes
Review date: 2008-07-27 Rating: 6 out of 10
Taut thriller in which Jodie Foster plays a grieving widow flying back to New York from Berlin with her six year old daughter following the death of her husband in a tragic accident. Foster's daughter mysteriously goes missing on the plane flight whilst Jodie Foster is sleeping, but when Foster reports her daughter as missing, there is no record of her ever being on the plane, throwing doubts on Foster's mental state. Foster is compelling as the grieving mother desperately trying to find her daughter aboard the plane and Sean Bean also puts in a fine performance as the plane's captain. However although this film is enjoyable, there are just too many plot holes for it to be considered excellent, which is a shame, as it could have been.
Rubbish
Review date: 2008-06-15 Rating: 2 out of 10
It is hard to find the words to describe how poor this film is. It's ameteurish in the extreme. It is nearly as bad as Panic Room. Jodie Foster is obviously finding it hard to land the big parts these days, which is a shame. What a load of rubbish
Interesting
Review date: 2008-04-01 Rating: 6 out of 10
Very interesting I thought. Although I didn't quite like the end so much. Jodie Foster was absolutely brilliant as a mother not knowing whether she has or hasn't boarded the plane with her daughter.
Sean Bean is quite different in this movie, usually he would've had something to do with the whole situation. I felt quite disappointed about his character.
Good film.
Did She or Didn't She??
Review date: 2007-12-25 Rating: 8 out of 10
Did she kill her daughter??I don't think so??So,who done it?Was it the pilot??Was it the spooky stewardess?Who was it?Was it that scary security bloke?
This film will keep you guessing right up to the end.Jodie Foster once again puts in a fantastic performance.This time as the wife of a murdered husband.She has the un-enviable task of bringing his body back to the US along with her young daughter when the daughter goes missing abord a plane SHE helped to design.As a frantic mother she insists the plane is searched from top to bottom.Along the way there are twists and turns a-plenty.The viewer thinks they have sussed just what happened or who disposed of the young girl when the plot takes another turn and you're not so sure it WAS him/her after all.The captain of the plane is brilliantly played by Sean Bean who has you guessing if he is a good guy or a bad guy.I reccomend this to all.
Edge of your seat stuff.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Robert Schwentke
Billy Ray
Peter A. Dowling
Jodie Foster
Brian Grazer
Creators:
Billy Ray (Primary Contributor)
Peter A. Dowling (Primary Contributor)
John J. Moers (Cinematographer)
Phillip Lefesi (Editor)
Adam Hauck (Producer)
John Bernstein (Producer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
EAN: 8717418078577
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL,
Release date: 2006-03-27
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 94 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2006-03-27
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