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I have always been interested in how people in journalism do their job and how much they are probably hated for doing their job. This movies brings exactly the perspective one needs to understand how if not for what they are covering (and uncovering), no one would have batted an eye. While the news team was covering a celebrity pair, simply translating what they are doing to investigative journalism makes you think the good that every journalist out there could be doing if they invested their time and effort in doing things for the right reason.

Of course with my bias of how I do not know why the celebrities being covered are that important, I didn't care too much about who's who but overall, it was nice to see the entire process and the movie ending off with a relatively interesting cliffhanger.

If you're somewhat of an aviation person, you'd know and find it hilarious for the aircraft to be called the A390 - especially coming from China. However, the effort to make the aircraft look as modernised and futuristic as ever is commendable. The plot, just like in Flight From Hell is a well-planned, and not as predictable though you would still be confused at the low-effort in the second half of the movie involving an emergency landing and the very same plot device from FFH - the mysterious force, which somehow comes onboard the aircraft and as usual, starts terrorising everyone onboard.

What I don't get about the second half is the sudden introduction of some people who apparently aren't who they appear to be - it contributed little to the development of the plot and the movie ended in much disaster. On the same topic of plot, having a "hero" installed using an excuse was a genius move to act as the counterbalance to the people who weren't who they said they were.

The movie tries to capitalise on the horror angle with a seemingly invisible force terrorising everyone onboard. It also tells a story about the human nature - easy to doubt, hard to trust when more and more frightening things happen onboard. The cast for the movie is also pretty fitting, with the pilot being fully committed to his role of protecting everyone that he can onboard.

Like Lost, the setting makes you just what exactly this mysterious force is, and how it is attracted by certain noise and possibly defeated using certain means and methods, by taking the advantage of the added pretext to the plot - the indigenous island the flight departs from.