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Flightplan [Blu-ray]

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Many aspects of this movie work well. Jodie Foster raises this movie above the conventional thriller. The setting using a jumbo jet works. You get to see parts of the jet, for example, the cargo bay that a typical passenger never get to see. The pacing is good. The characters themselves are well written and believable. They make understandable decisions. One never has to ask why a character would do such a stupid thing.

It is with the plot that I have the most trouble. It is fairly convoluted. It does answer the questions the veiwers have when they watch the movie. Why would anyone do this to Jody Foster's character? Why would they kidnap the daughter? Is the husband's death related in anyway? If there is a conspiracy, how big is it?

However, there were quite a few holes in the plot that left me with a bad taste in my mouth after the movie. The movie just did't click for me at the end.

Were you really there, when this once in every five years thriller hit the movies? This is a great movie. Jodie Foster is a natural. I think having children of her own, in real life, helped her delve deep within for this role. She is clearly one of the best,in a class with Jack Nicholson, Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep.

This movie stretched emotions, reality and had me on the edge of my seat. I began to believe that Foster's daughter really didn't exist. There was never a boring moment. Throwing in the "political correct" message about the Arabs on the plane was handled perfectly in the movie, while not being overemphasized or loudly pointed out.

At a time whent the word "great" is overused, it would not be to describe this gem.

My roommate and I are Jodi Foster fans. We thought we were going to be disappointed at first, but her dynamic performance kept us fascinated and we were not disappointed. We would highly recommend this movie to all our friends. Makes you believe in a persons sense of right. No disappointments here.

My mom bought this movie at Hollywood Video for about $8.00. Let me tell you something this movie is worth more than that!

A plane engineer (Jodie Foster) and her daughter go aboard an airplane that she designed. They start flying and Kyle Pratt Foster) needed to use the bathroom and comes back to a surprise, HER DAUGHTER WAS MISSING! Kyle believes that someone aboard is holding her hostage. Kyle goes to great lentghs to find her daughter, Julia, including ordering the captain to scour throughout the plane. Kyle knows the plane from top to bottom, which makes her think that someone is planning to hold her daughter ransom. The captain (Sean Bean, I think) insists that she had passed away, along with Kyle's husband, at a hospital. Kyle knows that her daughter is still on the plane because of one little hint. A fogged up window with a heart drawn on it from her daughter drawing it on the window. The rest is for you to find out!

This is a great movie for you to enjoy. It keeps you on the edge of your seat. I REALLY recomend this movie if you enjoy action movies.

Now and again there is some wonderful acting in Flightplan, from all of the principals, but the motives and objectives of the bad guys are entirely unexplained. They have murdered at least two people and performed amazing legerdemain just to set up the kidnapping -- but why, for what? There must be easier ways to get hold of a jet and fifty million dollars.

That large criticism aside, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie -- its chills are psychological -- and the psychiatrist and air marshall are perfectly cast. Best of all, unlike in real life, we know from the outset that Jodie Foster's character is going to win through.

Why should anyone on the plane believe a child went missing when evidences indicate otherwise? The flight crew unsuccessful search through the plane and the records show such child never enter onboard. In reality we would label Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) as delusional. She takes antidepressant drugs in effort to manage life through tragedy of losing her husband. But, we can't help consider something really has gone horribly wrong. Kyle remains determined to continue looking as any mother would for her lost child.

Kyle's hysterical behavior practically turns over the plane. Everyone think she's some crazy woman as she runs down aisles calling out for Julia (Marlene Lawston). The passengers clap respectfully when Kyle is eventually restrained and brought back to her seat with supervision.

How could a supposedly crazy woman outsmart the U.S. Air Marshall, Carson (Peter Sarsgaard), on more than one occasion to extend the search for her daughter if she was delusional? Sarsgaard plays as a terrific American patriot and conspirator.

Who should we believe, the captain saying Julia also died or should we rely on Kyle's mental state? It was hard to decide who seems more convincing than the other, that's how superb the actors and actresses play their roles.

The cinematography doesn't offer much beyond inside the airplane except brief footage outside the airport when the airplane lands. The camerawork won't astonish your eyes and the colors in the film are mostly dim and dark blue. What stands out however has to be the panic ridden on Kyle and the passengers' faces during the dramatic event, which imitates how people in real life would behave under such circumstance.

"Flightplan" will suck you in till the end. But one nick-picky flaw about the movie has to do with the plot twist being held back for far too long. When the change of event unravels, you suddenly wake out of the predictable mode and start paying attention since what happens thereafter is unpredictable.

Jodie Foster (Panic Room, Nell) stars as Kyle Pratt, an engineer from Berlin who, with her daughter Julia, played by Marlene Lawston, are going back to New York and bring along her dead husband in a coffin. So, they get on the plane and Foster falls asleep, awakened to find that her daughter is nowhere in sight. So, she goes frantically around the huge plane looking for her daughter, freaking out passengers and wanting there to be a search for her missing daughter. There's an air plane marshall named Carson, played by Peter Sarsgaard (Jarhead, Shattered Glass), on board who guards Foster throughout the movie leading the search. Captain Rich is played by Sean Bean (National Treasure, The Island), plus Foster finds out that her daughter was never put on the manifest and she finds out that the daughter died right along with the husband but Foster doesnt believe that. Pretty decent thriller was some clever things here and there has only to offer Jodie Foster's top notch performance and Peter Sarsgaard's twisted marshall to keep it at bay. Toward's the finale end, its way too perdictable from there. Not bad and worth a look. Also starring Erika Christensen (Swimfan, Home Room), Kate Beahan (Matrix Revolutions, Lost Souls) and Christopher Gartin (Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Johns)

Unless you are one of those people who think no remake is better than the original and that, in particular, remaking a Hitchcock film constitutes heresy, you'll thoroughly enjoy this movie.

A widow flies from Germany to the US to bury her husband and start anew with her daughter. She's an airplane engineer, and was responsible for the design of the plane she's flying on. So when her daughter disappears in midflight and the crew thinks she's insane for looking for a little girl whose name is not on the passengers manifesto, she has the know-how to wreak havoc while she searches for her child.

Unlike The Lady Vanishes (the Hitchcock movie that serves as the basis for this one), you feel the stakes are indeed high here. Foster is a wonderful actress and you can feel both her professional competence and personal desperation as she looks for the only thing that's left in her life.

The turns are surprising and engaging. And yes, there are moments when you have to suspend disbelief but come on, what was the last thriller you saw that was totally logical and believable?

Fast action, suspense, edge of your seat kind of movie!! This movie is about Jodie Fosters character, Mrs. Pratt, who upon the death of her husband, flies back to New York with her daughter, Julia, and her husbands casket in the belly of the plane. All is well, until Julia ends up missing on the flight, without a trace. Accusations fly, as well as words, Mrs. Pratt, an avaition crew member, screams, and rants her way throughout the film till she gets her way to search all over the plane, even in areas the common civilian would not be allowed to enter. You really feel this woman's plight in this movie, very well done. What is the ending...not going to tell you...pick up FLIGHTPLAN today...see if you are on the manifest!!

I believe this is one of the best movies made in 2005. The movie "Flight Plan" is about a widow, a mother of six-year-old girl, who while moving from Berlin to New York realizes that her daughter is missing. The movie is about her delusion and fears Vs facts and crime. The movie becomes so intense after the first 30 minutes, which will keep you glued to your seats.

Acting by Jodie Foster is SUPERB, so is by Peter Sarsgaard, and Sean Bean. What is great about this movie is its direction. Director Robert Schwentke has done an excellent job and it is amazing how he has improved his skills after the direction failure of 2002 "The Tattoo"!

The DVD features include "The making of the Flight Plan" and "The making of Altos 474". I am recommending this DVD as it is worth its price, and there are very few movies that can be enjoyed and this is one of them!