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5/7/2006
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Flightplan (2005)
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I will be honest straight off. I am not a Jodie Foster fan. I find her characters kinda dull and her voice kinda annoying. In fact I think the stuck up business exec in Inside Man is how I picture her. This film changed my opinion of her very little, her character Kyle (isn't that a mans name) is meant to be annoying. She is meant to be a bereaved mother who has just lost her husband and who's daughter has gone missing and everyone tells her she doesn't exist. She does the lost daughter hysterical woman thing well and is backed up well by the supporting cast of Sean Bean and the other passengers. Then there is Peter Sarsgaard, now unlike Jodie I like Peter, I like his characters and how he portrays them. Though in this film I didn't think he played his character of the Air Marshall particularly well. Sure as the movie unfolds it may make more sense though not really. He leaves many plot holes in his wake and this is really where the film falters. I think this is one of his weaker roles, he doesn't seem to be putting in his usual amount of effort.
At the beginning of the film it starts out slightly confusingly with Jodie going out into Berlin with her husband and then going to the morgue. It was at this point I zoned out of the plot and zoned into a "Oh cool that guy was in downfall" moment. Once that had passed and he wasn't in the movie again I was moderately agrieved but I got over it. When I watched the films trailers last year I felt they were making a mistake. It felt like they were showing absolutely every piece of action from the film. Once you watch it however you realise how little of the plot the trailer actually showed. This impressed my as it left out a whole strand of the story and made it more interesting to watch than just a woman loses daughter on plane thing. There is Arab sympathy in the film as Jodie victimizes a group of Arabs saying that she recognises them when they are completely innocent. Showing Americans to get rid of their prejudices and preconceptions?
This is a better film than I was expecting. The cast puts in a solid job with the possible exception of Sarsgaard who should have pulled out another K-19 performance for this one to make it work but didn't. His character was slightly more wooden than it needs to be and thus the film was not quite as brilliant as it could be. I still reccomend it though!
Review by Jonathan Little
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