Flight Plan

Went to see this movie with my two sisters. Actually, it was a fast dinner and a movie, fast and furious but it was nice to be out with them and it was nice for me to just be OUT. Heh. An apple martini would have made it perfect-o. :)

The movie was a bit unrealistic but still interesting enough (not downplaying that) to literally keep you on the edge of your seat/s. I don't know if I'd ever get on a plane that big. How do they FLY big planes like that? Well, I don't know if there is a plane in real life that is as big as that but I know there are some double decker kind of planes that one was multi leveled but just so HUGE. I'd think if we actually got up in the air in a plane like that we'd surely come crashing down immediately. How do planes fly anyway? Alright, so I admit, I'm super ignorant in the way of that kind of stuff but I have to also admit that whenever I go up in a plane (pre seeing this movie) I always wonder that; how ARE we flying really? Just way up in the sky, up in the air with NOTHING below us, no trampoline, nothing to catch us, just us up in the air. So I have this ritual I always do right before I get on a plane. I can't tell it to you or it won't be effective anymore. My secret. It's worked so far hence I sit here and type this garbled stuff from my brain. :)

So the movie, it's good. And the airline stewardesses are all up in the air (no pun intended) that this movie should be banned. Oh good Lord already, it wasn't that bad. I didn't walk away from that movie thinking 'oh those awful stewardesses, they stink, they're so mean'. I walked away thinking, "Wow, what a freak that character was and really that plot was a little unthinkable" Would that happen in real life? Eh, I don't know, hard to see that really happening but I will tell you, every step of the way, myself, my sisters, and the audience was litterally sitting at a hush riveted to the screen waiting for the next THING to happen. It was good in that way; and Jodie Foster, she is an incredible actress anyway. You just believe whatever role she is playing and in this case, a mom who has lost her child, she is like out of her mind in this movie.

What would YOU do if you lost your child? On a plane no less? Or in an airport with hundreds of people swirling all around you? I bet we'd all do what she did that's what. AND she just so happened to seem to know the plane like the back of her hand since she helped to develop it (that wouldn't be me) so she kind of had an upper hand. I pretty much know I'd do whatever the heck I'd have to do to get my child back. Been there in a different kind of way, done that. Well, yeah, totally different kind of way, but I was still fighting like hell for my child that I felt I had lost. Ok, yeah, nothing like it at all. Huge stretch. But it's still the loss of a child and the sheer panic that rips through you and makes you out of your mind crazy.

Go see it. It's really good. At the end of the movie, all of the audience was eerily quiet like a serious weird thing just happened. Hard to explain. You'll see.

I rate it a 4 out of 5 stars.

Jenn