Directed by : Takashi Shimizu
Starring by: Leslie Bibb, Ryan Kwanten, Amy Smart, Jamie
Chung
CBS Film
Airplane crashed…
The director choose a very hot
topic for this year movie according what had happened in a past few months with
the missing of Malaysian Airline MH370, the shot down of MH17, the tragic
accident of Air Asia QZ 8501, and the newest from German Wings. And we surely
want to know really what happened during the accident in some heavy equipment
that they always call a safer transportation tools compare to others.
The scene start with a heavy
turbulence in the air which shaking everyone inside, then the calling from the
tower for the flight 7500, which remains me of what happened with QZ 8501, that
had no respond but noisy sound and hissed of a weird noise like ghost. After
that it moved backwards from the event that occurred four hours before the shaky
turbulence did happened…the gathering of the passengers before the plane
take-off.
The flight 7500 was departing
from LA to Tokyo and took passengers which had their own secret, never crossed
in my mind that something like that could happened but it absolutely right, I
never thought of anyone else when I took a flight but I believe they had their
own problem or secret life that similar to flight attendant Laura who got
secret relationship with the Pilot Captain, Pete who’s married, or couples like
Brad and Pia who had secretly broken up their marriage, or like newlyweds Rick
and Liz who supposed to have their sweet times of honeymoon but Rick had a
little problem with the perfectionism Liz that sometimes snob him, or like Jake
who live his nice life as a surfer but had a profession as a thief in order to
support his hobby, or a young woman Raquel who looks single but when she
entered the plane toilet she had pregnancy test on her, or the gothic girl Jacinta
who looks stupid with her looks but on the other hand like books and had super
quotes for life and death, or like Lance, the businessman who obviously got he’s
own secret with strange wooden box that didn’t let anyone, including the flight
attendant, helped him carrying it.
Well, the four leading
actresses had act in a horror film before this, Amy Smart (as Pia) in Mirror (2008), Jamie Chung (flight
attendance Suzy) in Sorority Rows
(2009), Scout Taylor-Compton (Jacinta) in Halloween
(2007), and Leslie Bibb (flight attendance Laura) in Trick or Treat and I said the board scene floats perfectly well
because it’s not too fast, as only for the bridge before the plane start to fly
but explained the detail character of the passengers with easy-going style.
The quiet planned disturb by the riot when
Lance suddenly had panic attacks and blood come from his nose. The businessman
shaking very hard and weirdly so Laura asked for a doctor from passenger on
board to help. Brad who had paramedic helped her but Lance can’t manage it and
died. The situation on board became gloomy but Captain Pete decided not to land
the planned but continued the flight plan to Tokyo. Therefore the flight
attendance move Lance body to First Class upstairs, and move all the First
Class down to second class downstairs.
In this movie passengers and
flight attendance were shown going downstairs and entering flight deck but as
you know, actually, flight deck on 747 is on the upper floor, not down floor. I
don’t know what the reason of level change here but my best guess is a lot
easier for the crews to build first floor as the center of the activity and the
upper floor as lower activity, instead of the other way around. Logically, it’s
easier to build up rather than down.
The turbulence that make Lance
panic came once again, Laura who realized that the cabin pressure had dropped
from plastic water bottle that collapsing try to warn passenger to buckle up
and seat tight but it happened so fast and not entirely passenger back to their
seat at that time. By sudden the turbulence shakes very hard and make oxygen
mask dropped. The shake seems almost crashed the plane but finally the pilots
could take control of it.
After the heavy shake, the
terrors start to occur. Passenger begun to disappeared strangely, Liz saw the
Lance appearance on her laptop screen, Jake who saw the dead man alive when he
takes Lance’s Rolex watch – when the dead body turned around when Jake took a
picture on a selfie cam, I think that’s cool – Raquel who being dragged down
into the toilet, Jacinta who had experienced pulled blanket when she got sleep
make some of them realize that something going wrong in the plane after Lance
death. They decide to investigate who Lance was and take a look what inside the
man’s box.
They found out a shinigami
doll inside the luggage. Jacinta inform the group that the doll is a being that
collected people’s souls after they die, but only if they let go of whatever is
holding them to this world. From the woman’s hair that also found with the
doll, they suspect Lance bring his victim on the plane so Laura decide to find
the dead body from the luggage compartment in the below section.
The coolest thing about this
movie is we never know when the death comes, but when it came on us we suddenly
realized that anything we do in earth today is no longer important because the
beauty is about to come and if we're not ready to accept the death itself, we could end up like poor Liz at the end of the scene who’s being left
behind in empty plane room for she’s not ready to face death and let go
whatever holding her in this world, as she said before to Jacinta that she's not expecting death could happened in her life at that time…
