Flightplan

We saw Flightplan last weekend, and I must admit I wasn’t blown away. It was a decent movie, but not a memorable one. As with most action thrillers, there were some plot holes, but nothing to harp about. Without giving anything away, I was really glad the movie wasn’t another version of The Sixth Sense. Nope, no ghosts here; just Jodie Foster kickin’ ass.

I think everyone would agree that Panic Room was a better movie than this one. Jodie Foster is a great actor, and it’s a little disappointing that she would make two movies back-to-back that were fairly similar to each other. Probably the money was too good to pass up.

Come to think of it, Jodie Foster and Ashley Judd should make a buddy movie together. Both make action movies about tough, smart women who overcome impossible odds: one does the “mother & child in peril” stories and the other has made a couple of “wife out to save/get revenge on her husband” stories. They could play sisters who have to rescue their families who have been kidnapped by serial killer burglar terrorists, but then it turns out that their husbands orchestrated the whole thing. The big showdown could take place on top of a skyscraper, or on a moving train, or maybe a rickety suspension bridge.

That’s a movie I would go see. Just remember you heard it here first.