Meh... (spoilers)

I thought this movie was actually pretty freaking awesome until they revealed it really was a terrorist attempt. I dunno how else it could've gone but some other twist would've been a better direction.

My Dad was a commercial pilot (captain) and although I didn't watch this with him I know enough about planes (including flying smaller planes and being escorted around a larger plane) that movies never depict it right. I could suspend disbelief with the huge open areas of the plane, Foster busting through ceilings like it was nobody's business, and opening up locks with a coin, but by the time it got to the terrorist really taking the kid.. I was like, "Umm no."

Surveillance cameras and computers by 2005 would easily have tracked all of that. Most kids cannot be allowed to fly without a boarding pass and you gotta have a birth certificate + computer processing to be allowed if you are an infant. In addition, there are cameras everywhere that they could've easily had airport security look into.

As a pilot, your primary goal is to keep everyone calm and find the quickest resolution to the situation. Bean would've easily called the airport and asked about boarding pass and security cameras. Once the airport identified this (there's NO way a flight attendant could manipulate that and with segregation of duties you'd have to have the entire airport in on the scam lol) Bean would've immediately landed the plane per security protocol.

In fact, given the hysterics of Jodie Foster, she would not have been allowed the search the plane which would've immediately been landed 30 minutes into the film.


I think this should've gone a psychological/mystery direction instead of a standard thriller.