Flight Plan
Maybe it's because it stars Jodie Foster, or maybe it's because I'm a sucker for a thriller set in an airplane, but whatever the case I really thought this movie was going to be good. I was wrong.
After a somewhat promising start, Flight Plan, degenerates into a confusing and perposterous mess of a story. Don't get me wrong, I can suspend my disbelief as much as the next person. I can tell myself over and over again that it's just a movie, but they're just asking too much with this one.
The third act of the movie is only unpredictable in the sheer ludicrousness of it. I kept thinking to myself, they can't really be going in that direction, but they did. The movie if full of red herrings that insult the audience's intelligence ran than throw the viewer off track. Instead of trying to explain anything in the plot that might not make sense, the movie just ignores it. It's like assuming to audience is too stupid to think about anything that's not placed right in front of them.
While I was intrigued by the premise and by the setup, this movie fails so miserably by the end nothing even remotely interesting in it matters. Also I'm no expert in aeronautical engineering, but who were they kidding? If you see it you'll know what I'm talking about, but I hope I didn't picque your interest in any way. If you're dying for an airline thriller go see Red Eye again.
Grade F (Maybe it wouldn't be that bad, if it wasn't for the obvious lack of effort to make something good. No extra points for effort on this one. )
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The premise for the whole plot...How could the bad guys have possibly known she would quit her job, move to New York City and be on that particular flight when they killed her husband? And how did they get him on the roof of his apartment building.
After a somewhat promising start, Flight Plan, degenerates into a confusing and perposterous mess of a story. Don't get me wrong, I can suspend my disbelief as much as the next person. I can tell myself over and over again that it's just a movie, but they're just asking too much with this one.
The third act of the movie is only unpredictable in the sheer ludicrousness of it. I kept thinking to myself, they can't really be going in that direction, but they did. The movie if full of red herrings that insult the audience's intelligence ran than throw the viewer off track. Instead of trying to explain anything in the plot that might not make sense, the movie just ignores it. It's like assuming to audience is too stupid to think about anything that's not placed right in front of them.
While I was intrigued by the premise and by the setup, this movie fails so miserably by the end nothing even remotely interesting in it matters. Also I'm no expert in aeronautical engineering, but who were they kidding? If you see it you'll know what I'm talking about, but I hope I didn't picque your interest in any way. If you're dying for an airline thriller go see Red Eye again.
Grade F (Maybe it wouldn't be that bad, if it wasn't for the obvious lack of effort to make something good. No extra points for effort on this one. )
*******SPOILER ALERT******************************
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The premise for the whole plot...How could the bad guys have possibly known she would quit her job, move to New York City and be on that particular flight when they killed her husband? And how did they get him on the roof of his apartment building.
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