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Synopsis
After 2002s PANIC ROOM, Jodie Foster took a three year break before deciding to take another leading role in a major motion picture. Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood, but Foster is one of the few stars who can afford to take such a lengthy hiatus from the industry and still command major roles on her return. Robert Schwentkes FLIGHTPLAN is the movie Foster chose as her comeback vehicle; playing the recently widowed Kyle Pratt, she sticks close to PANIC ROOM territory, delving further into fear and isolation as her character boards an airplane to escort her dead husbands body from Berlin to New York. Kyle brings her young daughter Julia (Marlene Lawston) on the plane with her, and they fly on a craft that was designed by the grieving widow during her tragic tenure in Berlin. But after a short in-flight nap, Kyle awakes to find Julia has disappeared. Her frantic search leads nowhere, and it seems no one on the plane can remember Kyles daughter boarding the plane. An air marshal named Carson (Peter Sarsgaard) and the pilot of the plane, Captain Rich (Sean Bean), methodically ask Kyle some questions to determine where Julia could be, but she fails to produce any concrete evidence, not even a boarding pass. At this point, Kyle begins to doubt her own sanity, and Schwentke steers the movie through some surprising plot twists as his lead character teeters on the brink of madness. The second half of the movie drops the Hitchcockian intrigue (FLIGHTPLAN owes a sizeable debt to Hitchcocks 1938 thriller THE LADY VANISHES) and settles into a more straightforward action film, but Foster shines throughout. Credit is also due to cinematographer Florian Ballhaus, who unnervingly conjures up a palpable feeling of claustrophobia as the high-tech airplane endures a rocky journey through the skies.
Flightplan Review
Jodie Foster returns after a three year break from our screens - unless you count her brief cameo in last year's "A Very Long Engagement" - in this thriller at 30,000 feet. The double Oscar-winner plays Kyle, a grieving widow who is transporting her husband's body back from Berlin to the US when the unimaginable happens - her young daughter vanishes midway through the flight. Naturally panicked, she embarks a frantic search of the aircraft which, rather conveniently, she helped design. But it soon becomes a very real possibility that her daughter was never with her in the first place. Is Kyle losing her mind or are darker forces at work?
There's no denying that, for the first hour or so, "Flightplan" is a real rollercoaster as Kyle struggles as much with her own state of mind as she does her daughter's disappearance. Fingers get pointed, accusations are hurled and tensions are cranked up but then a disappointing plot twist seriously lets the whole thing down. You almost get the feeling that someone pitched a really good idea to the studio but they didn't know how to end it. The result is unfortunately both shoddy and implausible.
And what makes this ending all the worse is that the first hour is one of the best hours of cinema we've seen for a while - not only for Foster's tormented performance but also the way director Robert Schwentke ("Heaven!") explores every nook and cranny of this massive jumbo jet. But just as he's set up a claustrophobic and tense thriller the wheels come off (or in this case the wings), leaving you feeling rather short-changed.
Special Features
In Flight Movie The Making Of Flightplan, Security Checkpoint Story Of A Thriller, Captains Greeting Meeting The Director, Passenger Manifest Casting the Film, Connecting Flights Post Production, Emergency Landing Visual Effects, Cabin Pressure Designing The Aalto E474, Easter Eggs
Technical Information
Region 2
Running Time: 98 minutes
Production Year: 2005
Main Language: English
Classification: Thriller
Certificate: 12 Suitable for Persons Aged 12 or Over
Director Name: Robert Schwentke
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