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| Director
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Robert Schwentke
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| Starring
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Jodie Foster
Peter Sarsgaard
Sean Bean |
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| The plot of
Flightplan |
Emotionally
devastated by the sudden death of her husband,
Kyle Pratt (Foster) embarks on a non-stop flight
from Berlin to New York with her young daughter.
Halfway through the flight, the girl disappears
without a trace -- and no one on the flight remembers
ever seeing her on the plane. Is Kyle crazy, or
is there a plot lurking? Luckily, she helped design
the jumbo jet, so she knows all the nooks and
crannies. |
Flightplan
Movie Review
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Reviewed by
Mark Englehart:
Ever since The Silence of the Lambs, Jodie Foster hasn't
so much acted in movies as she has granted permission
for her presence to inhabit a number of star vehicles.
Once an amazingly intense actress who connected fiercely
with her characters and initiated an instant empathy
from her audiences, for the past ten years she's been
coasting - there's no other way to put it. A look at
her films from the 90s shows almost nothing but movies
centered around making sure everyone knows how great
Jodie is; they're worshipful in displaying how our fair
heroine is noble (Sommersby), funny (Maverick), smart
(Contact), brave (Panic Room), a heck of a clotheshorse
(Anna and the King), and a really, really good actress-with-a-capital-A
(Nell). Instead of getting Jodie Foster, we're getting
a plasticized, commoditized version of her - Jodie Light,
Essence of Jodie, Prepackaged Jodie. For all the trembling,
crying, screaming or laughing she might do, she's rarely
pierced the surface of her persona, and it feels like
we're watching her from behind a protective plastic
coating. Look, but don't touch....more..
Review By Sally
Kline:
Jodie Foster reprises
her role in "Panic Room," but with a bonus:
frequent flier miles. Playing another defiant mother
trapped in a confined space with a daughter's life in
potential peril, the two-time Oscar winner is also trapped
in over-40 leading lady hell — as she is now downgraded
to coach-class action thrillers like "Flightplan."So,
you think you hate it when the airlines lose your luggage?
Try having them lose your kid! That's the fate befalling
Foster's valiant aviation engineer Kyle Sherin. Character
takes a backseat to convoluted plot in this genre piece,
in which the concept of logic experiences more than
major turbulence. Though technically well-choreographed
by German director Robert Schwentke in his mainstream
debut, the hole-filled script credited to Peter Dowling
and Billy Ray takes an interestingly tense setup and
unravels it to the point of typical popcorn-flick silliness......More..
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