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Flightplan

2005

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Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews

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Mixed or average reviews based on 142 Ratings

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Flightplan

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Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: September 23, 2005 | PG-13

Starring: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean

Summary: Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-art 474 aircraft, Kyle Pratt (Foster) faces every mothers' worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berlin to New York. (Touchstone Pictures)

Director: Robert Schwentke

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 98 min

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Critic Reviews

100

San Francisco Chronicle

Mick LaSalle

A tense, concise and elegantly shot film. Read full review

70

Washington Post

Ann Hornaday

Until those final moments, Flightplan succeeds admirably, both as a sophisticated psychological thriller and as an example of, if not great art, then superb craftsmanship. Read full review

60

Chicago Reader

Jonathan Rosenbaum

This thriller is effective if you can accept that--as with some of John Dickson Carr's locked-room mysteries--the trickiness counts more than any plausibility. Read full review

50

New York Daily News

Jami Bernard

The plot is contingent on everything going perfectly in ways no one can possibly predict, right down to the most outlandish happenstance of timing and human behavior. Read full review

50

Charlotte Observer

Lawrence Toppman

Sean Bean makes a positive impression as the caring but puzzled captain of the flight, though Peter Sarsgaard flies at half-mast as a clumsy air marshal. Read full review

50

Los Angeles Times

Carina Chocano

The movie loses some of its initial atmospheric tension as paranoid thrills give way to Rambo high jinks. Read full review

25

Miami Herald

Rene Rodriguez

This movie demands that the viewer -- and even its own characters -- turn into thumb-sucking 3-year-olds with no need for plausibility or logic, as long as there are lots of flashing lights and whooshing noises emanating from the screen. Read full review

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10

Amanda

Jan 7, 2006

I think this was the best movie i have ever seen sence i was a little kid i think this is a 2 time movie every one should go see it.

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9

WallyS.

Dec 8, 2005

The top-notch performance by Foster only helps the movie become more riveting and suspensful, sure there are plot holes, but the direction is unique and the climax doesn't dissapoint.

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8

BrianF.

Sep 26, 2005

It certainly deserves higher ratings than the critics have given it. Top-notch acting, a couple of nice plot twists and excellent camerawork all make up for a couple of stretches in credibility.

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6

ClintM.

Oct 2, 2005

Ok, now you may see the 6 and think "that's not that great, it's not worth going to see". But ... you'd be missing out on entertaining mindless movie fun. I want to give the movie a higher score, but truth be told, it wasn't anything I haven't seen before. But I Ok, now you may see the 6 and think "that's not that great, it's not worth going to see". But ... you'd be missing out on entertaining mindless movie fun. I want to give the movie a higher score, but truth be told, it wasn't anything I haven't seen before. But I enjoyed it, and you will too.… Expand

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DavidM.

Feb 23, 2006

Suspenseful movies are often compared to roller-coaster rides because the twists and turns and ups and downs are what make watching them such a thrill. The problem with "Flightplan" is that it is like a roller-coaster with only one hill. [***SPOILERS***] The tension builds steadily from the Suspenseful movies are often compared to roller-coaster rides because the twists and turns and ups and downs are what make watching them such a thrill. The problem with "Flightplan" is that it is like a roller-coaster with only one hill. [***SPOILERS***] The tension builds steadily from the beginning, where we aree treated with fractured, inter-woven images of a grieving aeronautics engineer named Kyle Pratt who has lost her husband to a fall from the roof of their residence in Berlin. She is escorting her traumatized daughter Julia home to America, along with her husband in a casket. When the exhausted and emotionally frazzled mother falls asleep on the plane she helped design, she wakes to find Julia missing. At first she is calm and prudent in her search of the luxurious two-story jumbo jet. It's only when she cannot find her daughter, and not a single one of the passengers or crew admits seeing the child ever come on board that we begin to question Kyle's hold on reality. The flight attendents begin to think she's delusional, and the captain discovers evidence she very well might be. But we *saw* Julia board the plane. Or did we? "Flightplan" forces the audience as well (as the sleepy-eyed Air Marshall Carson played by Peter Sarsgaard) to ask several hard questions. How can a 6-year-old girl vanish mid-flight on an airplane? Why would someone even hatch such a plan? What makes Julia, or her mother, so special? When the reasons are revealed and the villain of the movie are finally unmasked is when this roller-coaster plummets towards the earth and never quite recovers. The underlying plot that threatens Pratt and her daughter is so outlandish and unecessarily elaborate that one might believe Rube Goldberg was the mastermind behind it all. Suspension of disbelief is not enough to save us from wishing the ride was simply over. What saves the film at all is the superb acting from Jodie Foster and Sean Bean. Foster always appears to be riding the edge of hysteria and madness, yet she skillfully manipulates the circumstances, the crew and Sarsgaard's air marshall to find her daughter. She never for a moment doubts what she is doing, and that means we can not be sure she is fully enveloped in her own grief-fed delusion. Sean Bean, who normally plays villains, is the firm and unflappable master of the airplane who knows he is responsible for the 400+ lives on the plane yet understands that Foster's character is one of those lives. He matches Pratt's unwavering dedication point for point and serves as a much better foil than Carson, whose role is mostly relegated to glowering at Pratt like a surly guard dog. "Flightplan" borrows heavily from the classic Hitchcock film "The Lady Vanishes", but it cannot live up to the master of suspense. In "Flightplan"s case, it's the plot that ends up vanishing.… Expand

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BridgetJ.

Sep 24, 2005

All during the movie all i could think about was how much this movie was soo like Panic Room. The acting is good... well too good for the movie, the set is good also. However, the reason why the movie was soo bad was because of the script. The movie leaps form one idea that Jodie Fosters All during the movie all i could think about was how much this movie was soo like Panic Room. The acting is good... well too good for the movie, the set is good also. However, the reason why the movie was soo bad was because of the script. The movie leaps form one idea that Jodie Fosters character is crazy to the idea that her daughter is on the plane. And whoever saw the trailer know that she really has a daughter on the plane. Also the movie just ends. If there writers had changed the story line and made the ending more belivable the movie would of totally rocked. However that is not the case here.… Expand

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ApocalypseBrown

Mar 3, 2007

Enter a contestant for the Hollywood hall of Turkeys. Totally abject and brainless, what a waste of time and money. AVOID!

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