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The actors are all on key here, but as the movie progress, tension deflates as the far-fetched plot kicks in.
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[Foster's] such a valuable commodity that I wish she'd spend her time making better movies. Sep 28, 2005 | Full Review…
[Foster's] such a valuable commodity that I wish she'd spend her time making better movies.
Rex Reed
We're starkly reminded that there's nothing quite so fickle as paranoia, and that some people are never more persuasive than when they're out of their minds. Sep 27, 2005 | Full Review…
We're starkly reminded that there's nothing quite so fickle as paranoia, and that some people are never more persuasive than when they're out of their minds.
Mark Holcomb
Can she escape his clutches, find her child and solve the mystery? And do we care? Sep 27, 2005 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Can she escape his clutches, find her child and solve the mystery? And do we care?
Paul Arendt
I do think this is a solid thriller for our times. Sep 26, 2005
I do think this is a solid thriller for our times.
Richard Roeper
The vanished child one really misses here is that adorably sparky, wised-up kid from Bugsy Malone and Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More. Sep 24, 2005 | Full Review…
The vanished child one really misses here is that adorably sparky, wised-up kid from Bugsy Malone and Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More.
John Patterson
One of those thrillers that pivots around the question of how daring -- or how focus-group cautious -- we suspect the filmmakers will turn out to be. Sep 24, 2005 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
One of those thrillers that pivots around the question of how daring -- or how focus-group cautious -- we suspect the filmmakers will turn out to be.
Owen Gleiberman
The alternations between reality and illusion could have been intriguing but the filmmaker doesn't want to go on that track at all. Jan 9, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The alternations between reality and illusion could have been intriguing but the filmmaker doesn't want to go on that track at all.
Namrata Joshi
It's always a bad sign in a thriller when the big reveal is greeted by hoots of derisive laughter. Sep 1, 2011 | Rating: D | Full Review…
It's always a bad sign in a thriller when the big reveal is greeted by hoots of derisive laughter.
Nell Minow
As with many modern thrillers the actual plot, once it comes to light, is highly implausible, there are a few too many turns towards the end and the climax errs towards the anti-climatic. That being said, it's well put together and entertainingly moody. Mar 22, 2011 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
As with many modern thrillers the actual plot, once it comes to light, is highly implausible, there are a few too many turns towards the end and the climax errs towards the anti-climatic. That being said, it's well put together and entertainingly moody.
Joshua Starnes
Tense but riveting thriller, best for teens+. Dec 15, 2010 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Tense but riveting thriller, best for teens+.
Cynthia Fuchs
If it's post 9/11, why would they have a plane with bathrooms that lead to tunnel-sized ventilators that have access to the plane's machinery?! Apr 29, 2009 | Full Review…
If it's post 9/11, why would they have a plane with bathrooms that lead to tunnel-sized ventilators that have access to the plane's machinery?!
Felix Vasquez Jr.
a white-knuckle ride into the anxieties and terrors of the new millennium... Fasten your seatbelts. Jul 6, 2007 | Full Review…
a white-knuckle ride into the anxieties and terrors of the new millennium... Fasten your seatbelts.
Anton Bitel
Execellent thriller about Jodie who loses her daughter on board a flight. No one believes her. An unusual role for Sean Bean.
Super Reviewer
This is the right kind of movie for Jodie Foster to do her thing. Cause she's good at this. It was pretty interesting...But it's the kind of movie where you kind of don't wanna find out what have happened. Cause the secret is more exciting than the truth. But it was a good movie. And I'm glad I saw it
Although Flightplan is a highly predictable film, Jodie Foster gives a good performance, which keeps you glued throughout, just sit back and enjoy.
Atmosphere, tension, and acting are what make this an enjoyable, above average thriller. Paying too much attention to plot holes, contrivances, and that sort of thing will only ruin the movie. Just sit back, turn your brain off for 95 minutes, and enjoy the ride- it's much better that way. Oh yeah, while it does borrow quite a bit of elements from The Lady Vanishes, it's not a total ripoff or remake.
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