Flightplan lasts as long as an Indian domestic flight. Before you know it, the suspense is out, the defending champion is proclaimed villain, and the heroine is walking in a halo of flight lights with the prize in her arms. The story, on the whole, converges to its denouement with such a sharp slope, you are quite stunned that it's all over so quickly.
But that's when the rescuers come in - a small clutch of well-chosen, all pervading elements that completely save the day. Jodie Foster, Sean Bean, Peter Sarsgaard and, most of all, the in-flight setting - a motley bunch of passen....