The other day I watched the film Flight Plan and let me tell you, stay away from this film and do not watch it. It was the most ridiculous film I have ever seen and far from realistic or believable. The film stars Jodie Foster and some of the films she has acted in have been alright such as Twister. But this Flightplan film has to be one of the worst films she has acted in.
The movie Flight Plan which is directed by Robert Schwentke is so ridiculous that it is almost funny. The storyline of Flight Plan is that a mother, Jodie Foster has somehow lost her mind or is suffering some kind of amnesia. She thinks she has lost her young girl who she thought was sitting next to her on an airplane but has somehow disappeared. She also can’t seem to remember what had happened to her husband who she remembers was with her a couple of days ago. Jodie Foster goes into extreme panic mode as she begins searching the entire plane for her missing daughter whom nobody on the plane seems to remember ever existed on the plane. None of the passengers nor the plane’s crew ever remember of a little girl ever sitting next to Jodie Foster on the plane and Jodie Foster acts deranged and crazy. To the viewer it seems that the character of the mother played by Jodie Foster has lost her mind. As the plane is up in the air, the flight marshal on the plane has to personally escort Jodie Foster to her seat. In the film Flight Plan Jodie Foster continues to act insane as her goes to a bathroom, climbs above it and unplugs some wires that she doesn’t know what will do in hopes of finding her daughter that to the viewer and the rest of the world does not exist. When Jodie Foster unplugs the wires, the oxygen masks fall down and the lights in the plane go off and the people on board the plane panic. The flight marshal scrambles to find this deranged woman who is being called a terrorist. When Jodie Foster is captured she is brought back to her seat as the passengers and crew onboard the plane cheer.
Finally, something interesting actually happens in this crazy film as the flight marshal played by Peter Sarsgaard goes towards the back of the plane to a body in a locked case that appears to be a man in a suit already dead. The flight marshal also takes out some kind of key and box as well as going next to a small girl lying in this hidden compartment. In this shocking scene the viewer learns that Jodie Foster really does have a little girl who was on the plane with her and that Jodie Foster has not lost her mind. The flight marshal’s plan, as the viewer finds out is to portray Jodie Foster as a terrorist, threatening to blow up the plane with a bomb onboard. The flight marshal tells the captain of the plane to wire $15 million to a bank account which is really the flight marshal’s own account.
When the plane lands in the film Flight Plan, the passengers all get off and then the flight marshal and Jodie Foster engage in a run and hide scene where Jodie Foster struggles to escape the flight marshal who wants to kill her. At the same time Jodie Foster knows that the flight marshal has her little girl kept somewhere on board the plane and she is desperately trying to find her. Jodie Foster discovers that the flight marshal pushed her husband off of a building to make his death look like a suicide and that he planted a bomb on the pane to make the crew suspect Jodie Foster as being crazy and dangerous. In the final scenes Jodie Foster finds her little girl and detonates the bomb on the plane which kills the flight marshal. Jodie Foster walks out of the plane carrying her baby in her arms as the passengers of the crew look on in astonishment that Jodie Foster wasn’t crazy after all.
Flight Plan was just a really strange and weird movie that I would not want to see again and I do not recommend this film to anyone.
