A current thriller that is worth your time and money is Flightplan. Jodie Foster stars as Kyle Pratt, an engineer who has been working in Germany and has just been widowed. Kyle is taking her daughter back to the U.S., with her husband’s body in a casket in the hold. Shortly after they board the plane, the exhausted Kyle and her daughter fall asleep. When Kyle wakes up, her daughter is gone. Kyle initiates a search that becomes more and more frantic when the daughter cannot be located anywhere on the aircraft. The flight crew, in fact, assert to Kyle that there is no record of her daughter ever having been on the flight, and a therapist passenger is called to console Kyle in her grief. So here is the big mystery: Did the daughter get on the plane? Does she even exist? Was she kidnapped by the group of Arabs who are on board? If not, is Kyle experiencing grief-induced delusions?
Plusses:
- A riveting screenplay, unique in that almost the entire action of the movie takes place on the plane and not through flashbacks.
- Acting: Compelling performances by Jodie Foster and Peter Sarsgaard as an air marshal.
- Theme: It’s hard to beat the intensity of a parent’s love.
Minuses:
- Language: There are a few instances of taking the Lord’s name in vain.
- Logic of the story: Some have criticized the script as being full of holes. I’ll leave that for you to decide.
Bottom line: Worth your time and money.
Film Rating: PG-13
My Rating: 2 ¾ stars.
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