Flightplan

Jodie Foster is back in Robert Schwentke's Flightplan, as a woman who gets crazy on a plane when her daughter disappears while on the air. The plane is huge, a new model she played a part in its engine design, and so she'll do everything to find her.

Jodie is Kyle Pratt, and she's traveling from Berlin to New York with her 6 year old daughter Julia (Marlene Lawston) after her husband died a few weeks ago when he fell from their house's rooftop.
Kyle is traumatized, she's delusional, she imagines her husband is still with her, so when her little daughter disappears on the plane, and nobody saw her nor there is any records of her ever getting on the plane, she must fight the flight attendants, passengers, the Pilot and the Air Marshall who don't believe her daughter was ever there, and think Kyle is getting crazy.

The movie has 2 totally different parts. The first 70 minutes is all about a this crazy woman getting crazier on the plane imagining she lost a daughter that's actually dead, or so you'd think. And said woman is actually the villain of the movie, or should be. Besides getting crazy in the plane threatening the safety of the 400 plus passengers, she physically attacks people, and what people.
This is when I started to hate the movie. It's a movie about a plane so what better idea than to add some terrorism to the story in this post 9/11 world. "Lets put some Arab terrorist in it!", someone said Touchstone Pictures, and they did. I fucking hated that. It was so offensive. And even worse because after the final and horrible twist (the last 20 minutes or maybe less) which came out of nowhere, the poor Arabs didn't have anything to do with what happened. They were truly victims of this demented woman.

Jodie Foster's acting was good, but she's getting older, and I really couldn't buy her having a 6 year old daughter. Peter Sarsgaard looked bored as the Air Marshall Gene Carson. Like he didn't even care about the movie. Sean Bean was good too as the Pilot, but he had little to do. Then the flight attendants. Erika Christensen is ok, but her character is weird. It seemed like she was going to participate in the twist but then didn't, so lots of little things that happen earlier to her end up being a waste of time. Australian beauty Kate Beahan (who looks a lot like Cate Blanchett) plays another stewardess and she's good, and hot. The stewardess situations were pretty great and they all had good dialogue.

I won't spoil the ending, but it was really bad, and really hurt the movie which could've ended up just fine and emotional had they gone with a simple story about a woman who can't accept her daughter is dead. But no, that doesn't happen.
Flightplan adds explosions and chase scenes (just running though) and will get forgotten soon as a bad thriller in Jodie's resume. I guess we should just be happy just because she's working, but this is basically Panic Room in the sky, and it's a bad movie. Someone please give her a decent role.