Jodie Foster doesn't act nearly as much as you'd imagine she could these days, so it's hard not to read a bit into the few parts she does accept. After her most recent starring turn in "Panic Room" and numerous related roles, she's starting to look like the self-crowned queen of the child-in-danger movie. Foster is awfully convincing as the mother who will do anything to protect a child, projecting a naked, desperate determination. And "Flightplan" lets her take this mode in a new direction: As the trailers reveal, there comes a point in the tale where we learn that Foster might be trying to rescue a daughter who no longer exists. Read the full review
Director: Robert Schwentke
Starring: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, Sean Bean, Haley Ramm
Run time: 93 minutes
Release date: Sept. 23, 2005
Rating: PG-13 for violence and some intense plot material.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B
"Most importantly, (director Robert) Schwentke is clearly aware of his movie's greatest asset: his star."
Austin American-Statesman: 3 of 5 stars
"... a nicely tense little suspense flick that, a terribly hackneyed ending aside, is a bit classier than it needed to be."
The Palm Beach Post: B-
"Foster... lends the movie an air of intelligence, until called on to turn into a supermom action figure."