Low expectation: Flightplan

Foster only read scripts after they're translated into her made up language, which must make bad movies look good to her.

Flightplan

directed by Robert Schwentke (Tattoo)
written by Peter A. Dowling and Billy Ray (Volcano)

produced by Brian Grazer (The Cat in the Hat)

starring Jodie Foster (Panic Room), Peter Sarsgaard (The Skeleton Key), Sean Bean (The Island), Marlene Lawston, Erika Christensen (Swimf@n)

lowdown: A woman loses her daughter on a jumbo jumbo jet.

low expectation:
     What is the deal with great actresses doing this hokey shit involving missing children and airplanes? This reminded me way too much of The Forgotten when I heard about it.
      Sorry, Jodie, but your kid has been abducted by aliens. I know this because that is where all movie kids go when they're lost. The same thing happened to the kid in the recent film Keane. Well, I haven't seen that one, but I just know it to be true by process of tradition.
      How is it that an Ivy League mind like Foster can only devote her time lately to action movies? At least she could make a real good action movie like Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hamilton have. Perhaps she needs to get James Cameron on the phone.

website: FlightPlan.movies.com

official synopsis:
Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer ("A Beautiful Mind," "Apollo 13") teams up with two-time Academy Award-winning actress Jodie Foster ("Silence of the Lambs," "The Accused") in the taut psychological thriller, FLIGHTPLAN, directed by Robert Schwentke and written by Peter Dowling and Billy Ray. Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft, Kyle Pratt (FOSTER) faces every mother's worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berlin to New York. Already emotionally devastated by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew and passengers while facing the very real possibility that she may be losing her mind. While neither Captain Rich (SEAN BEAN), nor Air Marshal Gene Carson (PETER SARSGAARD) want to doubt the bereaved widow, all evidence indicates that her daughter was never on board resulting in paranoia and doubt among the passengers and crew of the plane. Finding herself desperately alone, Kyle can only rely on her own wits to solve the mystery and save her daughter.

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Expectation Key

there's no possible way I will ever see this

I might eventually see this but I'm not really expecting much

anticipating the release of this one but I'm sure to be left unsatisfied

such high expectation of this film only leaves room for disappointment