Feast of Film

With my flight delayed 6 hours in Hong Kong and my colleague's phone dead and thus not contactable, I decided to spend a couple of hours in the cinema - the choices were several, but I chose well enough with this lite faire, the latest in the comic book superhero films that finally delivers a reasonable reason to wear those 3D glasses. The Plot: Test pilot Hal Jordan ( Ryan Reynolds ) is a young man scarred by the death of his father in an x-plane crash before his eyes. He's young and extremely talented, but emotionally crippled by his fears. Bestowed in a flash of green light by a dying alien with a mysterious green ring and lantern, he is set to battle evil (played, in part by Peter Sarsgaard ) using the force - literally - of his will, as translated by the ring. In Summary: Worth seeing to pass just under two hours, and not at all a waste of time - particularly at HK movie prices equivalent to A$10. The muted love story with Blake Lively's character is very poorl...

The most implausible plot I have seen in a long time - and that includes Sci-Fi. Flightplan is a Jodie Foster vehicle, which is not normally a bad thing for a film to aspire to, but they usually at least have a decent plot line. It should be noted that the previous Foster effort I reviewed - Inside Man - was stronger in plot but still provided a fairly thin Foster character. The plot: Kyle Pratt (Foster) is travelling home to the US with her daughter after her husband mysterious dies by falling from the roof of their apartment building (suicide is implied). Kyle is some sort of aircraft engineer, specialising in the engines, but works for an incredibly stingy company (they stick her in economy class). She boards the newest passenger megajumbojet - an A474 (think Airbus A380 but bigger) - for the trip home. It's a plane so big your child could get lost. Needless to say she goes to sleep and wakes up to find that her daughter is missing. What follows is a frantic search of the pla...