In Flight

I so wanted to enjoy this film. The concept seemed interesting, and I really enjoyed Tiffany Smith. She's an actress with a lot of charisma and beauty. I can almost guarantee that the script of this project seemed much better than the eventual result, and I don't begrudge anyone who had a part in making this film. It was a gallant effort. But after the first twenty minutes, I realized that the delivery didn't measure up to the idea. The protagonist, Claire, made increasingly illogical decisions meant to advance the story, but ended up betraying her supposed intelligence and therefore undermining the rationale of the ending. The direction was weird. Objects--notes, for example, meant to give us clues, were out of focus. In fact, focus seemed to be the director's (or the cinematographer's) challenge throughout. I can only assume that shooting out of focus was a stylistic choice meant to communicate the mystery of the situation. But it didn't work. In the hands of another director, this movie might have worked. In this instance, unfortunately, this was a missed opportunity.

Whoever commissioned this movie needs to be forever barred from a movie set in the future. Most of the time, I can give an awful movie a fair chance and hope that things turn around. After seeing the reviews here, I prepared myself for the worst and knew it would be a failure.

The funniest thing is at the beginning when these two attractive women were ogling at a Neanderthal-looking being who hasn't cut his hair in five years. Also, When you see only a handful of passengers on an overseas flight, that already tells you something is amiss. All in all, the story is unexplained.

The writers stretched a potential Twilight Zone episode into 90 minutes of nonsense and predictability. Nothing is noteworthy, except perhaps for the music.

There's no way to even include spoilers because nothing happened. I could tell what the ending was before the half hour mark and usually I'm impressed by that feat but this time I was disappointed because I guessed the ending and the movie decided it didn't want to elaborate. There's no payoff, no explanation, no reason, and it's a shame because the premise was intriguing. Good job not writing a story. The reviews here praising anything about the finished product is fabricated.

Girl gets drugged wakes up on plane. Tries to figure out what's going on. Fails. Gets invited to an unknown organization. Roll credits.

So Gravitas Ventures has produced some really good indie movies, but this one was NOT one of them.

First of all the camerawork and lighting was terrible. The colours were very bland. Picture sharpness below average.

Now the story line was also terrible. It took a long time to get to the point and the point was pathetic.

This was a poor copycatting of Miss Bala (the American version not the Mexican original). Granted Miss Bala's story line was different to this one, but the endings of both were slightly similar.

To cut a long story short, there were no thrills, no suspense, no real action, just a continuous drab. The acting was nothing to brag about.

I am disappointed in seeing Ashley Jones in this. She is a very good actress, and just as well she only had a minor part in this.

Do not watch this movie no matter how bored you are and you need to do something!

While I had indeed never heard about this 2024 thriller, prior to stumbling upon it here in 2025, I must admit that the movie's synopsis did actually sound interesting. And with it being a movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I opted to give it a fair chance.

Writers John Ierardi and Drew McAnany put together a script and storyline that had potential, though I have to say that the narrative was struggling with the slow pacing. There wasn't much of anything interesting or thrilling happening throughout the course of the movie, and that made sitting through "In Flight" quite an ordeal. And it made zero sense that there would be so few passengers on an overseas flight. That is not really how commercial airlines operate. So that was pretty bad writing.

I was actually not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, which actually was a nice thing, as I do enjoy watching new and unfamiliar talents on the screen. The acting performances in the movie were fair.

There are far better thrillers out there in the same ilk as "In Flight", say "Red Eye" from 2005 for example.

"In Flight" was a difficult movie to sit through, and it most certainly is not a movie that will grace my screen a second time. Would I recommend you to sit down and watch "In Flight"? Nope.

My rating of director Bo Youngblood's 2024 thriller "In Flight" lands on a very generous three out of ten stars.