It is a performances centric movie

Excellent adaptation.

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Original comment - Total utter drivel, that's it, more words needed apparently. The only redeeming part of this film is that the word 'brexit' does not feature in it.My later, more reflective comment - inspirational, they must have known how ridiculous the plot and sets were but thought 'what the heck, let's make this crap'. Brilliant. Far too many mediocre films made, this is in no way mediocre. Better to be at either end of the scale than sit firmly in the middle. You're bothered about this film because it's at an extreme. You'll just have to watch it to find out where you think it sits.

A bit of a fantasy but moderately entertaining. Had some poignant moments which helped it along a bit.

Flightplan follows a plane engineer (Jodie Foster) as her daughter goes missing on a flight. No-on remembers the daughter ever being on-board and things get so mysterious you will find yourself watching the whole film even if you hate because you just need to know what happened to the daughter. This kind of film is difficult to pull off, as setting a thriller in a claustrophobic setting with not all that many hiding places and no escape roots like a plane will usually go into ludicrous territory. Just look at Non-Stop. Thankfully, this just about manages to entertain its audience and if you don't focus on what's going on too much, you should have a decent time. Jodie Foster gives an excellent performance as the protagonist, and the other actors are on point as well. Flightplan boasts good direction, and the cinematography creates plenty of tension but it also visually appealing. A good visual style and good performances, as well as a mystery you will be trying hard to solve at the centre keep the film afloat.However, the film reminds me of a point made in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige. Do we really want to know the secret? Towards the end, finding out the mystery deflates the tension and the film remains entertaining but heads into generic territory. The film, on a whole, is implausible and relies suspends disbelief a little too far, but the actual resolution to the mystery is just a bit ordinary and doesn't quite live up to the build up. The cabin crew are too unsympathetic about the missing child, as are the passengers, with Sean Bean's captain being pretty much the only likable secondary character. The film takes itself a bit too seriously and this removes the fun from the film a bit. With the silly plot and lack of likable characters the film fails to lift itself above average, although it is quite frightening at times. Overall, this is a decent enough thriller with good performances and visuals. I love action and thriller movies so I could enjoy this easily but if you don't like these genres you may not get on so well with this.6/10

The quality of Jodie's acting is all that saves this waffle from total crash-landing, the missing kid had plausibility and her frantic search good acting,but the emerging of the 'Air Marshall' as the bad guy, his extortion method and the 'Die Hard 2' type conclusion left me in no doubt that I should have braved the rain and gone for that cycle. To see Jodie walking away from an airliner that was still supposedly carrying a large amount of fuel was as ridiculous as the concept that she would actually detonate the bombs while herself and her daughter were aboard. The predictability of the scene involvement the Arab gentleman was as embarrassing as any attempt to end stereotyping of a particular group. All in all Jodie is so far better than this and its a pity to waster her amazing talent on dragging dirge like this out of the mire.