Flightplan Critic Reviews

A tense, concise and elegantly shot film.Read the full review

The movie's excellence comes from Foster's performance as a resourceful and brave woman; from Bean, Sarsgaard and the members of the cabin crew, all with varying degrees of doubt; from the screenplay by Peter A. Dowling and Billy Ray; and from the direction by Robert Schwentke.Read the full review

Until those final moments, Flightplan succeeds admirably, both as a sophisticated psychological thriller and as an example of, if not great art, then superb craftsmanship.Read the full review

Has a routine finish but up to that point is a more than decent thriller--or, given its taut self-containment, a more than decent Hitchcockian "exercise in suspense."Read the full review

Doesn't have its heroine's conviction. It'd be better if it had.Read the full review

Since Foster plays warming-up-for-a-straitjacket panic with a clenched intensity rare to behold in a Hollywood actress, I, for one, was rooting for the radical -- that is, nuthouse -- option.Read the full review

This B-list thriller portrays air crews as inept, at best, and callous and cruel at worst.Read the full review

But coming on the heels of "Red Eye," which is nothing if not an efficient thrill machine, Flightplan can only look conspicuously flat by comparison.Read the full review

The movie loses some of its initial atmospheric tension as paranoid thrills give way to Rambo high jinks.Read the full review