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Published On: Oct 05, 2005 12:34 AM
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Published On: Oct 05, 2005 12:34 AM
Flightplan
There is some very minor spoilerage contained
herein...you have been warned.
So, as many of you know, one of my favorite movies
is Airport
'77 (the one where they are under
water) and one of my favorite film genres is the disaster film. So, when I saw
the trailer lo these long months ago for
Flightplan, I
was stoked: Airplane, check; Jodie Foster, check; Peter
Sarsgaard, check. All the ingredients. Nummers. Here I
come.
The cinematography--delightful; the dialogue--passable; the acting--first rate (as the usually incredibly harsh Philadelphia Weekly put it, Jodie Foster does more with her facial expressions than most actresses can do with their whole body).
The plot? Eh.
Yeah, I ultimately have to give this movie a very iffy grade because the movie just sort of falls apart. I think, by now, everyone knows the basics: mom and kid board plan; kid goes missing; mom goes berserk. Now, that part of the plot was good--tension rising, questioning the protagonist's sanity (yay, narrative instability!). But then things just fall apart really and we are reduced to dumb chasing.
And, the cardinal sin of disaster movies in the air: the plane lands.
Um, hello, why didn't you just do Speed then?
Oh and there was some 9/11 bs that was confusing and unnecessary (well, at least the way they did it) and perhaps offensive.
I'm sure I'll go see the next Jodie Foster movie--hell, I seem to get sucked into Panic Room every time it's on HBO--but let's see if we can get her to play something other than a trapped, frantic mother protecting her daughter. Can we?
The cinematography--delightful; the dialogue--passable; the acting--first rate (as the usually incredibly harsh Philadelphia Weekly put it, Jodie Foster does more with her facial expressions than most actresses can do with their whole body).
The plot? Eh.
Yeah, I ultimately have to give this movie a very iffy grade because the movie just sort of falls apart. I think, by now, everyone knows the basics: mom and kid board plan; kid goes missing; mom goes berserk. Now, that part of the plot was good--tension rising, questioning the protagonist's sanity (yay, narrative instability!). But then things just fall apart really and we are reduced to dumb chasing.
And, the cardinal sin of disaster movies in the air: the plane lands.
Um, hello, why didn't you just do Speed then?
Oh and there was some 9/11 bs that was confusing and unnecessary (well, at least the way they did it) and perhaps offensive.
I'm sure I'll go see the next Jodie Foster movie--hell, I seem to get sucked into Panic Room every time it's on HBO--but let's see if we can get her to play something other than a trapped, frantic mother protecting her daughter. Can we?
Posted: Wed - October 5, 2005 at 12:34 AM |