Flightplan

Starring: Jodie Foster, Peter Saarsgaard, Sean Bean
Director: Robert Schwentke
Rating: **

Flightplan opens with a promising premise. Kyle (Foster) is flying from Berlin to New York with her six-year-old daughter Julia and her husband's coffin. She snoozes off for a while only to wake up to a nightmare: her daughter's vanished mid-flight. What's more, the girl doesn't even figure in the aircraft's passenger list. So is she there on the flight at all or is Kyle delusional? From here on, the film could have taken off wonderfully along the lines of Hitchcock's tingling thriller The Lady Vanishes with the viewers going through delicious twists and turns to arrive at the final big discovery. Unfortunately, nothing much happens. What you get is a film that might be easy viewing for most but definitely too tame for any hardcore thriller buff.