Where is Julia? (Flightplan (DVD))

Member Name: xxsaxonyxx

Product:	Flightplan (DVD)
Date:	31/03/06 (156 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Makes you wonder whats real.

Disadvantages: none really.

This film was my evening entertainment a few nights ago and I have to say a really enjoyed it. The main character is Jodie Foster a fab actor until Panic Room left me avoiding anything she has done in recent years. Role on Flightplan.

SETTING

The whole film takes place on a brand new plane the Aalto E-474. The plane is HUGE, with two decks and plenty of nooks and crannies it makes the perfect setting for this film.

PLOT

In a foreign country Kyle Pratt (Foster) finds herself widowed after a tragic accident. She’s holding together better than most as she prepares to fly her and her only daughter back home. With the coffin in the hold she start a journey that will leave her questioning her sanity.

After a short nap Kyle wakes to find her daughter Julia is missing. She looks everywhere and becomes very neurotic. Kyle knows all about planes after all she works in the field so she knows all the little places a six year old girl could hide.

Kyle is frantic and questions the captain making herself look more and more panic stricken only to discover that there is no record of her little girl on the plane. Nobody seen her, nobody spoke to her, there was no boarding pass and worst of all the Captain (played by Sean Bean) receives a notice to say that not only was her husband killed in the accident, her daughter was too. Kyle is torn between what is and isn’t real, she needs to find out the truth and will go to any lengths to do so.

OVERALL

I really liked the whole ‘not knowing what’s real’ aspect of the film. The film makes it quite difficult to work out if the girl is there or not. For example leaving in the taxi to go to the airport, Kyle carries Julia under her jacket because the girl is scared. From the camera angle it can look as though Kyle is leaving on her own to get into the taxi. The film has lots of these kind of moments so for a while even you are wondering what’s going on. Thankfully you find out at the same time as Kyle what the story is so you can concentrate on the action.

Jodie’s character takes a few twist and turns, one minutes she’s grieving the death of her husband, next she’s questioning her sanity and then there’s the craziness that follows. She pulls the character of very well and makes a very convincing ‘distressed mother’ act.

SPECIAL FEATURES

The making of Flightplan plan - worth watching, shows you little clips of them making the scenes up.

Designing the Aalto E-474 - They needed to design the plane themselves as there is no other like it, good little featurette.

Aalto Map.

STATS

Rated 12 because of moderate violence.

Approx 94 minutes running time.

Summary: The burning question. Is Sean Bean a goodie or a baddie?