Flightplan just became my all time least favorite movie. I've never been so miserable sitting through a movie as this one, nor have I even seen such poorly-written characters that I actually wanted the bad guys to win because the good guy was so annoying.
To start off with, the movie didn't develop a plot until we'd been there for 3 hours. Instead it starts off with a really paranoid mom and her little girl. You think that they're going to explain what happened to them or what they're afraid of, but no. Instead they use some flashbacks to introduce the dad, and then the writer gets distracted and forgets that he had done that, so they never go anywhere.
I have to admit that the writer did convincingly portray what a crazy, delusional woman must be going through, as well as how hard that must be on those around her. I guess someone decided that wasn't a good enough story, though, so they switched it around right at the end and made her sane, even though it meant that the story no longer could be. I don't know how they expected us to care what happened to the lady's daughter after they spent the bulk of the movie convincing us that she didn't exist.
Add in the most inept air-marshall-turned-terrorist ever and some unapologetic racism, and you have the worst movie ever. Way to go, Flightplan.
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One time, my friend asked me to read his script and tell him what I thought. I hated the main character and wanted him to lose in the biggest way possible, he was so pathetic, I wanted terrible things to happen to him. I told the writer. He didn't care. These guys won't either. But WE do!!!
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