Flightplan (Full Screen Edition)

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Starring: Jodie Foster
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Type: DVD
Directed By: Robert Schwentke
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Release Date: 2006-01-24
Academy Award(R) winner Jodie Foster (Best Actress, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, 1991) gives an outstanding performance in the heart-pumping action thriller FLIGHTPLAN. Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's (Foster) 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter. From the producer of APOLLO 13 and A BEAUTIFUL MIND, FLIGHTPLAN is an intense, suspense-filled thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat the entire flight.

Amber Alert in the sky
This movie is something like a cross between The Twilight Zone & Alfred Hitchcock presents, with some 9/11 themes thrown in just for fun. There is a missing little girl on a huge double-decker passenger jet flying across the Atlantic. Or is there a missing girl? Therein lies the crux of the storyline.

The DVD contains strong performances by Jodi Foster and Sean Bean. Foster is always a great actress, and the movie hinges on whether we can relate to her angst as a mother of a missing child. If we can't identify w/her, this movie is toast. Thankfully, as always, Foster comes through and we're able to feel her frustration as a person who is treated like some sort of mad woman when all she wants is to keep her daughter safe.

Bean is very good as the kind & caring captain who is willing to give people the benefit-of-the-doubt. He will do anything in his power to help a child in danger, but he is unsure whether such a child is actually on board his aircraft.

While some of the components of this film are a bit contrived (if not outright far-fetched?), it still remains right on the outer cusp of believability. There are some nice plot-twists, and it adds to the depth of the plot that Foster's character is an engineer who actually helped design the plane.

If you're in the mood for a suspenseful thriller, this is a good one to pick up. While it does not seem like it early on, everything will make sense eventually.

Flightplan Full Screen Edition Review
A suspense thriller about a grieving widow transporting her husband's body on a transatlantic flight with her 6 year old daughter in tow. Jodie Foster does a great job in this movie and is very convincing in her own, doubting her own sanity at times due to circumstances and what others consistently were telling her. It kept you guessing and was not a predictable plot. I'm not a big action fan, but I did like this one. It had a story to it, not just the same old crime/vengence theme.
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Too many plot holes
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 sanity. 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.

IT'S ONLY ME, BUT:
JODY FOSTER IS GREAT AS USUAL. JODYS CHARACTER DESIGNED THE PLANE. oNE A FLIGHT HER CHILD GOES MISSING AND NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE SEEN HER. jODY HAS TO FIND HER AND DEAL WITH TERRORISTS ON HER OWN. JM

Flight Plan
This movie kept my attention throughout. I like just about anything Jodie Foster is in. Very good movie.