A mother's worst nightmare comes to life in Jodie Foster's newest suspense movie - Flightplan. Kyle (Foster) and her 6-year old daughter Julia are on a trans-atlantic jumbo-jet flight (with Kyle's husband's body in the cargo hold). A few hours into the flight, Kyle can't find her daughter. The US Marshall on board and the flight crew searches the enormous plane but Julia isn't found. Kyle happens to be one of the engineers who developed the plane ... and she knows all sorts of hiding places. Eventually we learn that no one on the plane remembers seeing 6-year old Julia - and her name isn't on the passenger list. How can this be happening? How can a little girl go missing on a plane? And the real question on everyones minds eventually becomes ... was she ever there in the first place?
Foster expertly portrays grief, rage, fear and desperation -and once again proves she can carry a movie. Sean Bean as the captain is, as usual, excellent (and gorgeous!) Steve and I both enjoyed Flightplan ... we only had a few plot points to quibble with afterwards (and they were really minor and nitpicky ... nothing compared to the full on plot dissection we did after Minority Report!) Great acting is what makes this movie ... it's worth a look!
My impression of this movies from the previews was always "Panic Room" on an airplane. Ticket shock'll keep me out of the theaters for it, but I'll put it on Netflix.
Oh yes, I've seen the trailer for this movie... it was suspenseful which makes me want to go see it!