Flight Plan Review

The film flight plan is a thriller about Kyle Pratt who is an aviation engineer, her recently dead husband and their daughter Julia. Both the mother and daughter are flying back to New York with the husbands coffin in the hold. The mother and daughter board the plane and three hours later at 37,000 feet high Kyle wakes up the an empty seat 26A. Julia had disappeared, Kyle begins to panic and frantically searches the plane all around but none of the passengers, flight attendants or the airport have any record of her daughter Julia boarding the flight.

The film is known as a very successful thriller, the story line is a good mind teaser as to wether Julia had got on the plane. The air Marshall had no sympathy for Kyle and Gene planned to blow up the plane but the finger was pointed at Kyle. The music throughout is very dramatic and there are scenes where you can hear the racing heart beats be put into the sound along with fast deep music to emphasise the scene. The dark scenes create more of a glass half empty attitude along with a tense atmosphere and makes us question wether Julia is on the plane. Kyle is an aviation engineer so helped design the plane, so she knows where every single entrance hold is. She goes to the bathroom to get into the electrical area of the plane and then realeases oxygen masks, the lights then flicker and the plane becomes more disturbed with people worrying and getting stressed by the minute. Kyle soon becomes aware of Gene being the one who had kidnapped her daughter, Kyle then races around the plane to try and find her daughter. The race to find Julia becomes faster and faster with an energetic but a very tense soundtrack. Towards the end of the film Kyle find Julia in the nose of the plan, Julia is unconscious next to explosives. Gene races after Kyle  and ends up on the nose of the plane but without Julia. 

Kyle shuts the nose of the plane and blows it up with Gene in it. The film is very successful at being a dramatic thriller because it plays on the minds of not just the pilot and crew but also the audience. The bereavement of Kyle's husband makes us as an audience question as to wether Julia was real or a figment of imagination. I would rate the film an 8/10 as it is very dramatic and makes us as an audience ask questions throughout the entire film.