After 2002's 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... more
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Flight Plan [Blu-ray] [2005]
If you can forgive plot holes that you could drive the airliner of your choice through the
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middle of, thenFlightplanis an effective, pacey Hollywood thriller, that somehow manages to hold everything together in spite of its challenging plausibility. Cr...
Flight Plan [Blu-ray] [2005]
If you can forgive plot holes that you could drive the airliner of your choice through the
... more
middle of, thenFlightplanis an effective, pacey Hollywood thriller, that somehow manages to hold everything together in spite of its challenging plausibility. Cr...
Production Year: 1991 - Thriller - Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes, Tim Burton, Julian Schnabel - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over
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Advantages: great thriller and a well written storyline Disadvantages: can be a bit confusing???
Director: Robert Schwentke.
Producers: Robert DeNozzi, Charles J.D. Schlissel and Brian Grazer.
Writers: Peter A. Dowling and Billie Ray
Stars: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean and Erika Christensen.
Released in September 2005 this thriller seemed to be a mind playing game as a woman has to pursued the authorities that her daughter has gone missing.
**BRIEF PLOT**
When Kyle Pratt, (played by Jodie Foster) gets on a flight from Berlin ... ...Lawston) her life changes for ever.
A few hour into the flight Kyle discovers that her daughter has gone missing from the plane but when she starts investigating it turns out that no one ever saw her daughter getting on the plane.
When Kyle's behaviour starts to panic the other passengers the pilot, (played by Sean Bean) orders Carson, the on board Marshall, (played by Peter Sarsgaard) to restrain the now hysterical passenger.
With Kyle then mistrusting ...
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Advantages: Sean Bean Disadvantages: Jody Foster, she's annoying!
This film is garbage. I've read that the lead character was going to played by Sean Penn. What happened there then? Jodie Foster is going to annoy you in this film. Parents might relate to the film better than people who haven't got any kids. Right. The start of this film is rubbish & totally not needed. We don't need to see her husband or see her seeing him in the morgue. All we needed was someone telling her he's dead and their transporting him ... ...Not needed. The family sitting in front of Jodie Foster quite obviously do see her child as they are all looking over the seats and talking to her for a good few minutes. I didn't really see the need to show the coffin on the luggage transporter. All that was required was Jodie asking a steward if the coffin was in the hold and then a shot of it in the hold.
I didn't understand why Jodie didn't explain her husbands death which would have made her ...
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Advantages: nice visuals, good acting Disadvantages: Jodie Foster can be a bit "samey"
...feelings perfectly.
If there were anything negative to say about the film I would say it is the ending, whilst not a terrible nor a bad ending I felt that the whole clever build-up that we see during the first two thirds is wasted a little bit, and a lot more could have been done to give an ending worthy to the rest of the movie, but that said the entire film is a tension filled and exciting journey and one definitely worth watching.
>>> Picture <<<
Presented in stunning, 2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen, flightplan is a fantastic transfer to DVD, as mentioned in the review there are the cold, stark initial scenes from Berlin coupled with some nice camera angles used throughout these scenes, and then the dark but warmer palette used on the aircraft itself. The clarity of the transfer is stunning, crisp visuals, no edge enhancements...
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Advantages: Good tense action. Disadvantages: A bit slow to start with.
...Having just joined a DVD postal service, Flightplan was the film sent to us last night, which I was unsure about watching following some bad reviews on here but I gave it a go and here's my opinion.
Kyle Pratt is an aircraft engineer in Berlin. Due to tragic circumstances involving her husband's death, she has resigned from her post and is travelling back to America with her scared 6-year-old daughter and her husband's casket in the hold. They are weary and still grief stricken and due to being emotionally and physically tired they settle quickly in their plane seats. After take off, Kyle and her daughter, Julia, move seats to some free ones further back so they stretch out and sleep.
Three hours later Kyle wakes and her daughter is not there. Mild panic sets in as she begins searching the cabins for Julia and she asks the air...
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Advantages: Good Tense Action Disadvantages: A Bit slow to start
...Having just joined a DVD postal service, Flightplan was the film sent to us last night, which I was unsure about watching following some bad reviews on here but I gave it a go and here's my opinion.
Kyle Pratt is an aircraft engineer in Berlin. Due to tragic circumstances involving her husband's death, she has resigned from her post and is travelling back to America with her scared 6-year-old daughter and her husband's casket in the hold. They are weary and still grief stricken and due to being emotionally and physically tired they settle quickly in their plane seats. After take off, Kyle and her daughter, Julia, move seats to some free ones further back so they stretch out and sleep.
Three hours later Kyle wakes and her daughter is not there. Mild panic sets in as she begins searching the cabins for Julia and she asks the air...
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Actor(s): Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan, Michael Irby, Assaf Cohen, Erika Christensen, Shane Edelman, Mary Gallagher, Haley Ramm, Forrest Landis
Director(s): Robert Schwentke
Genre: Thriller & Mystery - Thriller
Classification: 15 years and over
Production Year: 2005
Running Time: 1 hour 34 minutes
Consumer Advice: Contains moderate violence and suspense
Video Category: Feature Film
Country Of Origin: United States of America
Release details
DVD Region: Region B
Studio(s): WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINM; TECHNICOLOR DISTRIBUTION SERVICES
Release date: 19/03/2007
Catalogue No: BUY 0010201
Barcode: 8717418119355
Composer: James Horner
Producer: Brian Grazer
Screenwriter: Billy Ray
Languages
Main Language: English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
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DVD Description
After 2002's 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 Schwentke's 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 husband's 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 Kyle's 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 Hitchcock's 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.
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