Jodie Foster Movie:

		List Price: $34.99		Label: Touchstone / Disney Salesrank: 36378 Released: December 19, 2006
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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
The suspense climbs to a fever pitch in FLIGHTPLAN on Blu-ray’s high definition disc. Dive into Hitchcock-like thrills as never before via this exhilarating new format. Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the-art aircraft, Kyle Pratt’s (Jodie Foster) six-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. Now Kyle, desperate and fighting for her sanity, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter. Feast your eyes on every nerve-racking scene in breathtaking 1080p, while enhanced audio stirs your senses. Ascend to unsurpassed levels of entertainment with Blu-ray™ High Definition.

Description of Flightplan [Blu-ray]:
Like a lot of stylishly persuasive thrillers, Flightplan is more fun to watch than it is to think about. There's much to admire in this hermetically sealed mystery, in which a propulsion engineer and grieving widow (Jodie Foster) takes her 6-year-old daughter (and a coffin containing her husband's body) on a transatlantic flight aboard a brand-new jumbo jet she helped design, and faces a mother's worst nightmare when her daughter (Marlene Lawston) goes missing. But how can that be? Is she delusional? Are the flight crew, the captain (Sean Bean) and a seemingly sympathetic sky marshal (Peter Sarsgaard) playing out some kind of conspiratorial abduction? In making his first English-language feature, German director Robert Schwentke milks the mother's dilemma for all it's worth, and Foster's intense yet subtly nuanced performance (which builds on a fair amount of post-9/11 paranoia) encompasses all the shifting emotions required to grab and hold your attention. Alas, this upgraded riff on Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (not to mention Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake is Missing) is ultimately too preposterous to hold itself together. Flightplan gives us a dazzling tour of the jumbo jet's high-tech innards, and its suspense is intelligently maintained all the way through to a cathartic conclusion, but the plot-heavy mechanics break down under scrutiny. Your best bet is to fasten your seatbelt and enjoy the thrills on a purely emotional level--a strategy that worked equally well with Panic Room, Foster's previous thriller about a mother and daughter in peril. --Jeff Shannon

Flightplan [Blu-ray] Reviews:
An Absurdly Written Story
2009-09-06 - Despite Jodi's excellent acting, the development and conclusion of this story is so preposterous that one one wonders how in the world the movie ever got made or why Jodi chose to act in it.

The story goes from one illogicality to another to another to another. Even if Mom lost her daughter's boarding pass, which in itself is quite a stretch, a definite record of it existed in the computer when it was obtained. And it would have been very difficult to have someone delete it from the computer unless sufficient justification had been provided to the airline officials--which there had not been. The flight captain could have obtained that information of the daughter's boarding pass easily enough through radio contact.

That no one sitting nearby would have seen the daughter in her seat was also ridiculous. People nearby do look around, albeit casually, at the persons sitting around them. Children, because there are few of them on a flights, are especially noticable.

That there was not a small coffin on the plane, supposedly the daughter's, beside her father's in the baggage compartment, further confirms that she had not died prior to the flight. A quick examination of the baggage area would have shown this.

And a medical examiner making a false claim that the daughter had died before the flight is not such a simple matter as the movie would lead one to believe--there are many records involved when there is a death. The ambulence record itself would have clearly shown that when the husband died only ONE body was delivered to the morgue--not two, as was stated--even if the medical examiner had created a false death certificate for the daughter, which in itself is highly doubtful because this could have been easily discovered, on investigation, as false.

The writer of this story appeared to assume that everyone who would see it would check his brains outside the theater before entering. It is an insult to anyone's even meager intelligence.

As mentioned, I enjoyed Jodi's fine acting, but she continually did something that bothered me greatly--she kept talking in a whisper, making it very difficult to often understand what she was actually saying.

Didn't want to miss a minute!
2009-08-09 - This was a sit on the edge of your seat, question who was the real bad guy type of movie.....I thoroughly enjoyed it. Jodie Foster did a stand up job making you wonder if she was loosing her mind or not. Top notch movie!

Why blu-ray ?
2009-04-15 - A good film, but the quality of the image in the blu-ray does not justify to rent or buy it if you have seen it on DVD. Sorry my english !

Amber Alert in the sky
2008-10-29 - This movie is something like a cross between The Twilight Zone & Alfred Hitchcock presents, with some 9/11 themes thrown in just for fun. There is a missing little girl on a huge double-decker passenger jet flying across the Atlantic. Or is there a missing girl? Therein lies the crux of the storyline.

The DVD contains strong performances by Jodi Foster and Sean Bean. Foster is always a great actress, and the movie hinges on whether we can relate to her angst as a mother of a missing child. If we can't identify w/her, this movie is toast. Thankfully, as always, Foster comes through and we're able to feel her frustration as a person who is treated like some sort of mad woman when all she wants is to keep her daughter safe.

Bean is very good as the kind & caring captain who is willing to give people the benefit-of-the-doubt. He will do anything in his power to help a child in danger, but he is unsure whether such a child is actually on board his aircraft.

While some of the components of this film are a bit contrived (if not outright far-fetched?), it still remains right on the outer cusp of believability. There are some nice plot-twists, and it adds to the depth of the plot that Foster's character is an engineer who actually helped design the plane.

If you're in the mood for a suspenseful thriller, this is a good one to pick up. While it does not seem like it early on, everything will make sense eventually.

Flightplan Full Screen Edition Review
2008-10-25 - A suspense thriller about a grieving widow transporting her husband's body on a transatlantic flight with her 6 year old daughter in tow. Jodie Foster does a great job in this movie and is very convincing in her own, doubting her own sanity at times due to circumstances and what others consistently were telling her. It kept you guessing and was not a predictable plot. I'm not a big action fan, but I did like this one. It had a story to it, not just the same old crime/vengence theme.
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