A little girl and her mother are in a plane 36,000 feet in the air. Within a couple of hours, the little girl just vanishes without any clues. “Flightplan” is an action-packed thriller that leaves the audience at the edge of its seats, with an ending that nobody can see coming.
“Flightplan” stars Jodie Foster and there is a slight resmblance between the way she acts in this role and her role in “Panic Room.” In the movie, she searches the plane trying to find her daughter and starts interrogating passengers. In “Panic Room,” the only difference is that she knows the killers are in the house, but just like on the airplane, she is confined to only one area.
Foster plays Kyle Pratt, an engineer of jet engines, who decides, after her husband’s death, that she wants to leave Germany and head back to New York with her daughter, her last remaining family.
Marlene Lawston plays the daughter, Julia Pratt; she is very shaken by her father’s death and has become paranoid about dying herself.
Kyle and Julia end up falling asleep, and when Kyle wakes up, she notices that Julia is not next to her. As any normal mother would, she checks the plane, which is two floors and has about 400 people on board but is not able to find her daughter.
When she starts to panic, the air marshal Gene Carson, played by Peter Sarsqaard, calms her down and tries to help her find Julia. After a frantic search, Julia has not been found, and everybody on board is starting to believe that Kyle is going crazy.
The pilot of the plane, Captain Rich, played by Sean Bean, after giving up on Kyle’s search, gives her the news that her daughter died with her father.
More of a thriller than “Panic Room,” the rest of the movie is great, and it has a twist in the end that can’t be seen coming.
Directing and editing in the movie is also awesome because the audience just gets absorbed.The acting and casting is done very well and the bond of mother and daughter is extremely convincing on screen.
This movie is not stretched out too long either, being 93 minutes long and rated PG-13 for violence and an intense plot.
The question which remains for those who have not seen the movie is: can this be another film about schizophrenia, or is it a plot to get Kyle to freak out so that somebody can highjack the plane? Perhaps it’s something else.
