Its Saturday night, its late and I have been up getting some more of my site up and working, but before I head to bed I thought I would put down my impressions of this weeks movie – Flight Plan with Jodie Foster. The so try goes that after the accidental death of her husband in Berlin, Klye (Jodie Foster), an aircraft engineer, is returning to New York with her 6 year old daughter, Julia (Marlene Lawston).
Three hours into the flight, Julia disappears and Kyle desperately tries to find her while facing increasing skepticism from the crew and the on board air marshall, Carson (Peter Sarsgaard). No one remembers seeing the little girl and she cannot be found, then when word reaches the aircraft from Berlin that both Kyle husband and Julia had been killed in the same accident it appears that Kyle is delusional. Frightened and determined, she uses her knowledge of the aircraft she helped design to carry out a frantic and disrupting search for her daughter.
I quite enjoyed this movie. I found it suspenseful and I felt that Kyle’s fear, both for her daughter and the her own sanity, were really quite moving. Jodie Fosters performance was good without being great, a little monotonous given the extremes the character was going through.
Like a lot of hollywood features at the moment its well paced, well crafted and extremely high in production values, without necessarily being a fantastic story, so its enjoyable without being life altering. I suspect this is a result of having a budget so big, they need to reach an enormous audience, and its hard to create something extremely moving for a large number of people. Its an exciting story with with suspense of it all being added to by Kyle admitting that she has “seen” her husband since his death. This makes the existence of Julia all the more doubtful, adding to the suspense.
Interestingly enough, my movie partner (hi Richard) commented that the feel of the movie was actually enhanced by seeing it in cinema seating, giving us as audience members a greater feeling that I was actually there (cinema seating being a little like aircraft seating).
All up it was a pretty good film for an easy Saturday night, but don’t feel you have to rush to see in on the big screen.
