Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

There are so many inconsistancies in this movie including the dahh moment that Newfoundland doesn't have FBI agents?.. Didn't anyone in the cast or crew ever visit NFLD Canada? The only redeaming quality was the acting by the three leads?

I didn't see the whole movie. My husband went outside, and left the TV on. I was walking by, and happened to glance up, and saw the camera on a window of a house. Kinda got me interested, since it looked just like a cross, and well most windows have got the usual up and across kind of shapes in their windows. Now, I haven't seen the whole movie, so I don't know who's house it was. So as I will still looking at the window, the camera was slowly going from left to right. Now that first window I saw, was a set of windows. Each had crosses. Now as the camera moved, there came up another set of windows, with the crosses again. But, the last window came up. If anyone watched this movie before, then this would be obvious, because I'm assuming it was a horror movie, but the last window was not a set, it was only one, and there, right in front of my eyes...was an upside down cross in the last window. So, I'm wondering if this was intentional, did it have some meaning to the movie, or did I not really see that?

Kyle Pratt is an American avionics engineer living in Berlin but after her husband commits suicide she decides to return to the States with her young daughter. As it is a night flight they both fall asleep shortly after take-off but when she wakes up her daughter is nowhere to be seen. She searches the length of the cabin before approaching the cabin crew; they look but can't find her either. Kyle now starts to panic and demands to see the captain. As she pounds on the flight-deck door she is restrained by Carson, the flight's air marshal. Once she has calmed down a bit the captain sees her and agrees to a more thorough search of the aircraft. Once again she isn't found and more confusingly nobody remembers seeing her and she isn't on the passenger manifest… is there a conspiracy or is Kyle delusional? Whatever the reason Kyle is determined to search other areas of the plane and to do that she will have to get away from Carson and use her knowledge of the plane's electronic systems.This is a film that stands or falls on whether one can suspend your disbelief as various unlikely events take place. For the most part it succeeds thanks to Jodie Foster's portrayal of Kyle; it is hard not to believe in her character as her sense of panic seems very real. As the story progresses the more we need to suspend our disbelief… would nobody remember seeing a child sitting near them, once she started behaving in an apparently irrational manner would she really be allowed to roam around the aircraft and in these security conscious times would it really be possible to access the plane's electronic systems via a hatchway in the toilet? Thankfully the pace is such that I didn't dwell on most these questions until after the film was over. The story holds together well until we learn the truth about the child's disappearance; then it becomes rather melodramatic with a far-fetched plot whereby the villain is setting her up to look like a terrorist who is demanding millions not to blow up the plane! Overall though I'd say this is decent enough if you want a gripping thriller but if you can't ignore the lack of realism it is best avoided unless you want some unintended laughs.

The key to making a really good "mysterious disappearance" film, in my opinion, is how the story pans out after the "reveal". This Jodie Foster-starring feature is absolutely fine for the first two thirds as the mystery attendant on her daughter vanishing from the seat next to her while sleeping on an airbus flight, is carefully built up. I even liked the giveaway's nod to Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes" but after that, the film subsides to a ridiculously far-fetched extortion / hijacking plot and a madcap chase through the body of the plane before the predictable happy ending, or should that be landing takes place. I did admire the sense of claustrophobia created in the confines of the aircraft and there's no denying the piece as a whole is a fast-moving mystery-thriller. There's also a welcome caution against xenophobia as Foster initially suspects a pair of Arab passengers but the stereotypical responses of the passengers and crew to the as it turns out innocent men and later to Foster's disruption of their flight is greatly overstated. In fact the singling out of Foster's character by the baddies, which necessitates the pre-flight murder of her husband so that his coffin can be placed on the flight stretches credulity and credibility way beyond breaking point.Foster herself shows herself to be fit and athletic as she searches every nook and cranny of the plane seeking her daughter but otherwise doesn't to have demonstrate many emotions other than anxiety. Sean Bean, as the incredulous pilot trying to calm the situation, is probably the best of the rest.It really is very hard to take seriously a straight-faced thriller set on a plane when we've all seen the corny "Airport" films of the 70's and of course the spoof "Airplane" movies of the 80's. "Flightplan" doesn't manage to reclaim that territory but once you check your disbelief in the overhead locker, you can still sit back and enjoy this particular flight, making sure you stay awake of course.