
The husband of aviation engineer Kyle Pratt has just died in Berlin, and now she is flying back to New York with his coffin and their six-year-old daughter Julia. Three hours into the flight Kyle awakens to find that Julia is gone. It's a big double-decker plane, so the very concerned mother has a lot of territory to cover in order to find her daughter. She takes matters into her own hands as she fights to discern the truth.... (Full plot summary below)
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The husband of aviation engineer Kyle Pratt has just died in Berlin, and now she is flying back to New York with his coffin and their six-year-old daughter Julia. Three hours into the flight Kyle awakens to find that Julia is gone. It's a big double-decker plane, so the very concerned mother has a lot of territory to cover in order to find her daughter. She takes matters into her own hands as she fights to discern the truth.
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| tonymedley.comTony Medleyplunges almost immediately into the suspense and maintains it throughout, highlighted by terrific performances by Foster, Sarsgaard, and Bean. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanSince Foster plays warming-up-for-a-straitjacket panic with a clenched intensity rare to behold in a Hollywood actress, I, for one, was rooting for the radical -- that is, nuthouse -- option. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleA tense, concise and elegantly shot film. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderFlightplan is two-thirds of a great movie and one-third of a mediocre one, but hey, even the mediocre one has Jodie Foster in it. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldFar-fetched but deliciously exciting aerial nail-biter. |
| NewsdayJan Stuart[Flightplan stays on] a course mapped out by so many celluloid disappearing acts that pale in the long shadow of Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie's excellence comes from Foster's performance as a resourceful and brave woman; from Bean, Sarsgaard and the members of the cabin crew, all with varying degrees of doubt; from the screenplay by Peter A. Dowling and Billy Ray; and from the direction by Robert Schwentke. |
| Ebert & RoeperRichard RoeperI do think this is a solid thriller for our times. |
| FromTheBalconyBill ClarkFlightplan is a crackler of a suspense film and a solid entry into the early autumn season. |
| Baltimore SunChris KaltenbachFor at least two-thirds of its length, all elements combine for a taut thriller, a Hitchcockian exercise in suspense pitting human frailty - can our minds be trusted? - against human resourcefulness. |