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Flightplan [2006]
from Buena Vista Home Entertainment
starring Billy Ray, Peter A. Dowling, Brian Grazer, Robert Schwentke, Jodie Foster
directed by Karen Inwood Somers

Features:

• Anamorphic
• Dubbed
• PAL

Editorial 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.

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

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• a bad plot and a few good performances in an average thriller
  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... more info

• 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 mental state. Foster is compelling as the grieving mother desperately trying to find her daughter... more info

• Rubbish
  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
  
  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.

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