If you’re willing to invest over two hours on a paranormal-ish movie set 90% on an airplane, this might be one to give a try. I’m not saying it’s a fantastic horror movie, but it’s also not the worst you could choose, either.
Nadja and her son Elias are traveling on a transatlantic flight to New York so Nadja can receive medical treatment for an unspecified blood disorder. In the airport, Elias meets Farid, a kind fellow passenger who also likes science, and they strike up a bit of a friendship. As the flight gets underway, though, it is soon hijacked by terrorists, including a psychopath who is only too willing to kill anyone in their way, and the copilot, who redirects their flight to crash land in Europe (the hijackers have plans to escape by skydiving).
In a panic, Elias tries to take off and hide in a cargo hold, and when Nadja runs after him, she is shot and left bleeding on the floor. Farid and other passengers try to help both Elias and others who have been hurt already, while most of the terrorists are in the cargo hold trying to put the bomb together. This is where we flash back to an event in Nadja’s past, when Elias was just a baby, which caused her blood disorder, and also where we discover how her husband died. As the story moves back to the present, we see Nadja in a new light, and realize she is stronger than she seems, and might be able to save Elias and the plane full of people from crashing after all. But time is working against her, and she will need help from both Elias and Farid in order to be able to finally put an end to this terror once and for all.
- Top Scare: Psychopath
- Heartbeats: 2 1/4 out of 5
- Gore Factor: 4 out of 5
- Scare Factor: 3 out of 5
- Recommended for: 16 and up
