Flightplan (3)

Friday September 30, 2005 - 12:40AM EDT

This movie is solid and I like it. But I just can't let go some of the gaping holes and slight of hand tricks in the plot. Solid performances by the cast. It was entertaining and had a tricky ending. Which made and broke the movie. To resolve the tricky ending, which can be difficult, they had to take some liberties. Liberties, which depending on the watcher can be let go or not. In my case I couldn't let everything go. The motivation for the antagonist was sketchy at best and could have done with a bit more back story to strengthen his resolve. They ignored a few plot points that they made seem important but never revisited them. It wasn't a huge complex world where you can let that shit go. The whole story took place in two places so you better resolve everything in the end. Particularly disturbing was the portrayal of airline procedures. That is where they took a lot of liberties to resolve the tricky ending. Since most people don't know airline procedure that well it would make sense to pull tricks there. Still even not knowing procedures it seems awfully far fetched some of the things they try to get away with.

I wouldn't go out of my way to see the movie but if you have nothing else to do and want some decent entertainment you can get it with Flightplan.