Review of Flightplan (2005) by Deb S — 26 Aug 2010

Flightplan is a psychological thriller whereby Jodie Foster, plays the recently bereaved Kyle Pratt, who accompanied by her young daughter Julia, (Martine Lawston) is flying back to New York with the body of her husband. she wakes up on a flight to the double-decker plane she helped design; and her haunting nightmare begins. Flying at 40,000 feet in the state-of-the-art aircraft, she discovers her young daughter is missing. The captain of the plane (Sean Bean)and even the Air Marshall on board (Peter Sarsgaard) doubts the child ever boarded the plane.

The double-decker jetliner provides an unusual setting with more hiding places for action than one would have expected. From the grey, sterile, beautifully antiseptic plane to Foster's reactions as she has to come to the realization that she may be crazy put it a notch above the average thriller. Well worth the watch.