J.R. Hudson
02-02-2006, 06:23 PM
...was uninspiring. Ebert gives it a Thumbs-up ? Huh ?
I love Jodi Foster (I believe she is the most talented actress working in Hollywood) and I enjoy Sarsgaards work as well as Sean Bean (Love him; dude is supercool).
The film was just a mess from the get-go. The Plot is so far fetched and absurd
SPOILERS
Jodi Foster and her daughter board a superplane airbus that holds a gazillion passengers and has a bar and a tv at everyseat with the dead husband in a casket for a journey back to the staes. They take a nap and when she awakes the kid is gone and no where to be found. The crew of the plane think she is insane and no one onbard ever saw the daughter with her and her name is mysteriously missing from the passenger manifest (More on that later). But wait
Miss Foster just happens to be an employee of the very company that designed the plane and she knows it 'inside and out' and galavants all over the plane using cieling hatches in the restrooms and closets to do a little Die-Hard cat and mouse.
Afterall this, she never can find her daughter and starts to think she is insane. But then she realizes something is amiss and starts to suspect the stewardess and air marshall of being the bad guys. Of course they are.
Here the plot get's absurd. Tthe air marshal--and an on-board flight attendant and a coroner in Berlin' are all in on it. What the poo poo ?
Apparently ythey are smuggling the goods in her husbands coffin to the State. Double What the poo poo ?
After some less than tense scenes with the Air MArshall chasing her around the plane she detonates the C4 while still on it with her daughter and walks away from it. What the poo poo times is a charm.
Incidentally, her daughter speaks with ZERO accent but has never been to the United States (growing up in Germany).
This film is a waste of time and talent from everyone involved. It is nicely shot except for the SKATERDOLLY they have discovered. I have never scene this shot abused more than in this film. Every other shot is a Skater ride' it seems.
You also never the the feeling you are on a plane; it just doesnt feel like your in the air but more on a soundstage. There is also some weak sub-plot of her accusing some Arab dudes of stealing her daughter; and they play the race card. There is also a scene where Jodi accuses the Arab dude of being outside their bedroom window one night with another racist white passenger yelling at the arabs.
What a friggin mess this script is.
An interesting note from Wiki:
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants has called for an official boycott of the film, which they say depicts flight attendants as rude, uncaring, indifferent, and even one as a "terrorist."
Please ladies. We don't really think you're terrorists.
HUDSON RATING SCALE ? 1 Star
I love Jodi Foster (I believe she is the most talented actress working in Hollywood) and I enjoy Sarsgaards work as well as Sean Bean (Love him; dude is supercool).
The film was just a mess from the get-go. The Plot is so far fetched and absurd
SPOILERS
Jodi Foster and her daughter board a superplane airbus that holds a gazillion passengers and has a bar and a tv at everyseat with the dead husband in a casket for a journey back to the staes. They take a nap and when she awakes the kid is gone and no where to be found. The crew of the plane think she is insane and no one onbard ever saw the daughter with her and her name is mysteriously missing from the passenger manifest (More on that later). But wait
Miss Foster just happens to be an employee of the very company that designed the plane and she knows it 'inside and out' and galavants all over the plane using cieling hatches in the restrooms and closets to do a little Die-Hard cat and mouse.
Afterall this, she never can find her daughter and starts to think she is insane. But then she realizes something is amiss and starts to suspect the stewardess and air marshall of being the bad guys. Of course they are.
Here the plot get's absurd. Tthe air marshal--and an on-board flight attendant and a coroner in Berlin' are all in on it. What the poo poo ?
Apparently ythey are smuggling the goods in her husbands coffin to the State. Double What the poo poo ?
After some less than tense scenes with the Air MArshall chasing her around the plane she detonates the C4 while still on it with her daughter and walks away from it. What the poo poo times is a charm.
Incidentally, her daughter speaks with ZERO accent but has never been to the United States (growing up in Germany).
This film is a waste of time and talent from everyone involved. It is nicely shot except for the SKATERDOLLY they have discovered. I have never scene this shot abused more than in this film. Every other shot is a Skater ride' it seems.
You also never the the feeling you are on a plane; it just doesnt feel like your in the air but more on a soundstage. There is also some weak sub-plot of her accusing some Arab dudes of stealing her daughter; and they play the race card. There is also a scene where Jodi accuses the Arab dude of being outside their bedroom window one night with another racist white passenger yelling at the arabs.
What a friggin mess this script is.
An interesting note from Wiki:
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants has called for an official boycott of the film, which they say depicts flight attendants as rude, uncaring, indifferent, and even one as a "terrorist."
Please ladies. We don't really think you're terrorists.
HUDSON RATING SCALE ? 1 Star