Flightplan

HomunQlus

Saw this one on Saturday. It's the new one with Jodie Foster.



Story:
Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) plays a woman in the mid-30's. She has a hard time because her husband died a week ago, suicide is the reason. Her daughter also suffers from the loss, is struggled that daddy's gone. In her professional life, Kyle works as a propulsion engineer, and designed the engines for the world's biggest airplane. Because of the tragedy, Kyle and Julia want to leave Germany and bring the coffin with her husband back. The new airplane is ready to go for its maiden voyage to New York.
While in the air, six-year old Julia disappears. As Kyle is a mother, she's worried and believes that she can't have gone too far as there's no way out of a plane, that's in the air. Kyle informs the captain about this, he does some research and Kyle is been told that her daughter also died with her husband.....

That's where the whole plot starts to unravel. I'm not saying anymore... If I did, I'd give away spoilers...

Jodie Foster plays brilliant, as well as the little girl who plays her daugher. Sean Bean is Captain Rich, he plays outstanding.

The movie is really brilliant, packed with action and it keeps you in the seat, you wanna see what happens next. The finale will really blow your mind...

The movie gets a perfect

10/10

from me... It's been a long time since I've seen such a good thriller.

It's also the first movie that's about a plane and New York since 9/11.

My recommendation: If you like thrillers, action and Jodie Foster, go and see this one!!

Mr E

Its a good movie. Definitely not worthy of 10/10, though....
A solid 7/10 from me.

From the very start, I was expecting

a Sixth Sense style twist, but this was dismissed (thankfully) about an hour in. The ending is a bit more conventional, but it was still very good.

Teneka

Awful, awful movie.

Do not waste 8.50 on this tripe.

J.R.HARTLEY

bang on the money teneka

tabatha

i dont think it was that good and i certainly dont think it had a sixth sense twist, had heard this before i went in and was expecting it all the way through. nothing to exciting at all!

whiskeyman

Had a lot of potential (Foster always gives an excellent performance), but it's ending just makes a mockery of the whole plotline and of the viewer.
I'd give it 6/10 at best.... giving this 10/10 is a joke tbh.

In fact, I havent read one decent review of this since seeing it.... and the TV adverts include "great" views from all the usuals "News of the World, The Sun, Maxim"... this is usually the sign of a film that has been shredded by the real critics, so the film house / distributors nudge lots of freebies to the "film reviewers" in such publications.

HomunQlus

whiskeyman wrote:

giving this 10/10 is a joke tbh.

10/10 is my opinion, not yours.

Berkel

Good movie - worth a watch - but no 10/10... Foster is very good, Bean is ok but I think its because he had a limited role, but some of the of the other acting is ...well...er....****e! I liked some of the filming styles and it all looks very good.

6/10!

Pigman II

Berkel wrote:

good, Bean is ok but I think its because he had a limited role

That's MR. Bean to you ya cheeky pup!

MisterAnarchy

Decent enough old film but it has huge holes in the plot that are ridiculous.

ixoy

One of the reasons I don't want to see this is because the trailer (which was shown far too often) seemed to reveal huge amounts of the plot. Is there actually much more than what we see there or is the trailer, as it appears, giving away most of the turns and so on? (e.g) it implies

the girl's on board but there's a conspiracy to take her and Jodie thinks she might be going mad but then sees the little heart that the brat drew on the window earlier and it's all related to her husband, who is probably not all that dead, etc.

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Necronomicon

Pretty woeful movie I thought. Without going into a rant, two things that bothered me:

The air-marshel. The guy had the emotional capacity of a plank of wood. I don't think he made an expression for the entire film.

The Arab characters. There was no closure on them. We see them staring into the room of Foster's daughter at the start of the movie, and they are obviously on the plane to put people off the right trail and suspect them instead. When Foster confronts them on the plane, they prove that they were at a hotel which seems to further indicate her descent into madness. In the end, we find out that they are insignificant. So why the whole part about them seemingly spying on the daughter?

projectmayhem

saw it today. absolute ****e. Necromomicon's second point pissed me off majorly.

i have to go see doom to watch some monsters being blown apart by a BFG just to offset this rubbish.

it was 100% totally predictable, we made a game out of it in the cinema, predicting what'd come next

foster puts in a good performance but it seems a bit overly done compared to the crap she had to work with (i normally enjoy bean, but his role was hardly demanding here)

Memnoch

the movie was not bad as popcorn flicks go, an enjoyable ride but ultimately falls very short.

Firstly it's highly predictable.

Secondly the plot is highly suspect. There are so many gaping holes that anyone with a resonable intellect could tear the movie into shreds. There are far too many discrepancies and weaknesses which are glossed over by the directer in return for cheap thrills.

The premise was good, the execution wasn't.

6/10 with nothing to write home about.

Women are probably more likely to enjoy it thanks to Foster's strong "mother, independant woman" role.

whiskeyman

HomunQlus wrote:

10/10 is my opinion, not yours.

I know... but giving it 10/10 makes me, and many others, disregard your review almost straight away.


And you giving it 10/10 is a joke... in my opinion

Spider_Baby!

Lol at the bit where

she walks away from the plane ala "Die Hard" type movies, or the like, with the child in her arms

projectmayhem

Spider_Baby! wrote:

Lol at the bit where

she walks away from the plane ala "Die Hard" type movies, or the like, with the child in her arms

"omg what's that she's holding?"

sirpsycho

whiskeyman wrote:

Had a lot of potential (Foster always gives an excellent performance), but it's ending just makes a mockery of the whole plotline and of the viewer.
I'd give it 6/10 at best.... giving this 10/10 is a joke tbh.

Exactly what I would have said about this. 6/10.

Necronomicon

projectmayhem wrote:

"omg what's that she's holding?"

Hehe, I chuckled at that too

underpantsgirl

starts off ok, but down hill from there

MisterAnarchy

The ending was preposterous.

MrJoeSoap

Went to see it tonight, not a massive amount of brain-power involved. The plot seemed to have holes in it, and I'd give it a maximum of 6/10. Will definitely never watch it again anyway.

djkeogh

saw this at a matinee during the week, glad I didn't pay full whack for it. Was alright but not great by any standards. Jodie Foster in Panic Room mode again with more panicking than before. The trailer had given away up to about an hour into the film i felt which is always bad. Twists were crap and didn't surprise or shock at all. Better stuff out there to be spending money on

PullMyFinger!

Didnt see the trailer and saw the film for free so the first hour was pretty decent. Then that ending came along. Not bad. Bit of a meh film, overall 6/10

~Rebel~

Agree with the "meh" opinion. Twas grand for the while i was in there, as soon as you even consider actually thinking about it, it completely falls apart. Mildly entertaining while watching, nothing special at all, definately wouldn't recommend anyone to go see it, or even rent. maybe sit down and watch it on tv in a few years for free instead..

Quick Rant;

In all fairness who in gods name is actually going to choose that method for highjacking a plane?! Absolutely so much could go wrong its unbelieveable. "So we'll kill this man, who's wife knows the plane really well, and then when she's on the plane with the coffin, we'll hide a bomb and take the kid. She's obviously going to react exactly as we predict". If any single thing they predicted went wrong it just fails. what if anybody sees the child at any point being carried away?!? What if she didn't use the back rows? Who's not gonna notice a strange man reaching over a sleeping mother, grabbing a sleeping child from her seatbelt and carrying her off down the avionics section?! Surely even if nobody suspected anything then at least later they could say "oh ya that guy there took her". Just stupid imho.

lostexpectation

was sean bean in on it?

Pigman II

I was looking forward to this one but I've got to be honest and say that it's not a very good movie at all. Everything about it from start to (esp) end is implausable (method, characters, situation and solution) - all which doesn't really do you any favours if you're trying to make a thriller.

lostexpectation wrote:

was sean bean in on it?

No it was just

the Marshall and the stewardess, no one else

lostexpectation

Pigman II wrote:

I was looking forward to this one but I've got to be honest and say that it's not a very good movie at all. Everything about it from start to (esp) end is implausable (method, characters, situation and solution) - all which doesn't really do you any favours if you're trying to make a thriller.



No it was just

the Marshall and the stewardess, no one else

well he seemed to stall the fbi from getting her to identify someone else, like it could have been him?

Clintons Cat

might as well have been called Panic Room 2 with the tagline-"Tighter Crawl Spaces-Bigger Explosions! Brilliant!!!"-Paul Ross.

A very poor 4/10 or possibly a 6

honru

This film had a ridiculous amount of plot holes, which just added to the comedic value. :v:

Hardly anything special at the end of the day.

Lirange

Excellent points Rebel. Scarcely conceivable and manipulative plot devices.

Panic Room, where Jodie plays a similiar role ... was much better than this.

missingtime

Worst movie I've seen in a long time. And I sat through Casanova.
Unbelievably predictable and unoriginal. I couldn't watch the ending when she walks through the crowd. Soooo corny. Thank god i didn't pay for it that would have pissed me off even more.

0/10