By Ryan Parsons | Image property of Touchstone Pictures
Flightplan
Yeah, I know we recently posted an update on Flightplan
about the latest extended preview for the film, but this is the first semi-positive
review to appear online so it had to go up.
Flightplan Review
The good people over at AICN
have recently received another review that not only says Flightplan
is, well, OK, but bashes all films of the thriller genre for the past decade;
ouch! One of the most notable remarks that I had looked for in the review
is if the twist, or solution, that should occur by the end of the film was
worth the excitement. According to 'Hitchcock's Bitch', the solution is
honest but unsatisfying. Now I can't even remember if this was a positive
report:
Flightplan is a very nice-looking film, with interesting and inventive camerawork and sharp cinematography. The airplane used in the film is pretty amazing... a brand new double-decker with ten seats across each row and a first class section that would put Air Force One to shame.
Jodie Foster does indeed give a great performance. She's really quite amazing... though I couldn't count the number of extreme closeups on her beautiful blue, tear-filled eyes. Those eyes get almost as much screen time as Frodo's in all three LOTR extended editions combined. I found myself looking for boom mics and key grips in her pupils.
All in all, in spite of my rants, this is a decent but forgettable movie that is mostly agreeable, with a couple of funny lines, some beautiful photography, great acting by Jodie Foster, nothing too objectionable, and an ending that is honest but unsatisfying.
It's on a higher plane (horrible, horrible pun intended) than RED EYE, which I enjoyed in spite of some major dialogue and performance issues. Flightplan is much tighter and more believable. But overall, it's just another decent thriller with a few twists.
If you take a look at the list of our reviews,
you can see that I have fallen behind on checking out the latest releases.
We will see if Flightplan gets included on the list for this weekend.
Flightplan comes to theatres on September 23rd.
For the trailers, movie stills, movie info and synopsis, go to the Flightplan
Movie Page.
Flightplan
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