Flightplan: Critic Reviews

88%

MovieWeb: 2 reviews

38%

RottenTomatoes: 184 reviews

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Julian Roman MovieWeb (Top Critic)

60

Full Review » 7 years ago
Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

50

One of those thrillers that pivots around the question of how daring -- or how focus-group cautious -- we suspect the filmmakers will turn out to be.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Manohla Dargis New York Times (Top Critic)

50

To watch Jodie Foster storm through a phony airplane for an entire movie has its very minor pleasures, but there is nothing here to feed the head or fray the nerves.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

Full Review » 5 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

50

Not worth the trip.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Ann Hornaday Washington Post (Top Critic)

Succeeds admirably, both as a sophisticated psychological thriller and as an example of, if not great art, then superb craftsmanship.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

63

Ultimately what makes this picture fly is Foster, who's playing another character who turns jeopardy into vengeance as a rite of motherhood.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Mark Holcomb Village Voice (Top Critic)

We're starkly reminded that there's nothing quite so fickle as paranoia, and that some people are never more persuasive than when they're out of their minds.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jami Bernard New York Daily News (Top Critic)

50

There's so little reason behind the plot that it's hard to focus on Foster's fierce performance.
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Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

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Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

59

Final moments are filled with twists, many of which stretch plausibility, but the blessed thing wraps up in a taut 88 minutes.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Lisa Kennedy Denver Post (Top Critic)

63

Like Red Eye, last month's air-scare flick, Flightplan rides a jet stream of post 9/11 worries.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

88

Flightplan delivers a frightening thriller with an airtight plot.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

50

Everything from the icy blue palette of the cinematography to the icy blue glare of its star speaks to a mood that is somber rather than hyperkinetic.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

50

Flightplan is like airplane food. No matter how good the ingredients the air chef has to work with, the entree inevitably ends up tasting like a Xerox of a facsimile of a meal.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jeff Strickler Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

63

The first half, which is vintage Hitchcock, is by far superior to the second half, which is pure Steven Seagal.
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Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

42

Flightplan has holes and blank spots you could steer an airbus through.
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Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

50

Foster is believable, but casting her is like entering a Maserati in the soapbox derby.
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Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

[Foster's] such a valuable commodity that I wish she'd spend her time making better movies.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Robert Koehler Variety (Top Critic)

The care and craft exhibited by director Robert SchwentkeRobert Schwentke in Flightplan is largely undone by a script that self-destructs in the third act of an otherwise well-made thriller.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Kyle Smith New York Post (Top Critic)

38

Here's the plan the writers came up with to handle the obstacles between their story and plausibility: Ignore them.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

60

Flightplan, nerve-racking as it is, stops well short of its final destination.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)

75

Foster's cobalt-blue eyes and pale, pointy features have rarely been used to such ambiguous effect. Is she the hardest or the most hurt-looking woman you've ever seen?
Full Review » 7 years ago
Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

Flightplan calls to mind that old Kris Kristofferson song, The Pilgrim, about the man who doesn't know if the goin' up was worth the comin' down.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com (Top Critic)

If you bring an eye mask and a few sleeping pills, you should get through it OK.
Full Review » 7 years ago