History YMMV / Flightplan2005

* HilariousInHindsight: This film stars Creator/JodieFoster and ''Film/NonStop2014'' stars Creator/JulianneMoore. The message from Hollywood is that [[Franchise/HannibalLecter Clarice Starling]] should never get on a plane.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Quite a few didn't take it well at all when the film [[spoiler: went from a dramatic psychological thriller about a mother trying to save her missing daughter to a generic crime film with the typical lame Hollywood villain and evil plot]].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Quite a few didn't take it well at all when the film [[spoiler: went from a dramatic psychological thriller about a mother trying to save her missing daughter to a generic crime film with thetypical lame evil plot and Hollywood villain]].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Quite a few didn't take it well at all when the film [[spoiler: went from a dramatic psychological thriller about a mother trying to save her missing daughter to a generic crime film with a generic evil plot and typical Hollywood villain]].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Quite a few didn't take it well at all when the film [[spoiler: went from a dramatic psychological thriller about a mother trying to save her missing daughter to a film about a generic evil plot from a generic and lame Hollywood villain]].

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Subverted. Kyle can come across as this to some. Granted, she's lost her husband already and comes very close to losing her daughter [[spoiler:as well as everyone losing all of their dignity and respect for her due to a psycho's con game]], but she does commit some rather inappropriate acts such as accusing one person without and ground proof which can't be justified in anyway, and even comes across as a bit of a jerk in demanding the crew to look her daughter

* [[spoiler: Stephanie. We are supposed to sympathize with her a little since she seems to have self-doubt and remorse for contributing to killing an innocent young girl solely for personal gain. However, this largely paints Stephanie as a hypocrite as she previously acted completely unempathetic towards Kyle and seemed to think nothing of it]].

[[spoiler: Stephanie. We are supposed to sympathize with her a little since she seems to have self-doubt and remorse for contributing to killing an innocent young girl solely for personal gain. However, this largely paints Stephanie as a hypocrite as she previously acted completely unempathetic towards Kyle and seemed to think nothing of it]].

[[spoiler: Stephanie. We are supposed to sympathize with her a little since she seems to have self-doubt and remorse for contributing to killing an innocent young girl solely for personal gain. However, this largely paints Stephanie as a hypocrite as she previously acted completely unempathetic towards Kyle and seemed to think nothing of it.

* [[spoiler: Stephanie. We are supposed to sympathize with her a little since she seems to have self-doubt and remorse for contributing to killing an innocent young girl solely for personal gain. However, this largely paints Stephanie as a hypocrite as she previously acted completely unempathetic towards Kyle and seemed to think nothing of it.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The film, despite its flaws, is rather interesting in what could have been a MindScrew, despite [[spoiler: the reveal that it was just a generic terrorist plot]]. And even then, the film does a well job touching upon ApatheticCitizens.

* HilariousInHindsight: This film stars Jodie Foster and ''Film/NonStop2014'' stars Julianne Moore. The message from Hollywood is that [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Clarice Starling]] should never get on a plane.

* IdiotPlot: The bad guy's plan suffers an ''extreme'' case of ComplexityAddiction and would have fallen apart if the adults only listened to the children who claimed to have seen Julia. Worse still, with a dozen persons literally around them, '''none''' of them admit to seeing the child, until another child does near the end.

* SpiritualAdaptation: It's pretty much an unofficial remake of ''Film/TheLadyVanishes''.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The film, despite it's flaws, is rather interesting in what could have been a MindScrew, despite [[spoiler: the reveal that it was just a generic terrorist plot]]. And even then, the film does a well job touching upon ApatheticCitizens.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: For the most of the film is an interesting MindScrew; struggling to comprehend what's going on as it becomes more and more evident that there might never have ''been'' a daughter. [[http://www.mcc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/?p=672 Reviewers have pointed out]] that this would have made a clever [[TheReveal reveal]] but instead [[spoiler: it turns out to be an over-complicated terrorism scheme and that ends with Kyle saving the day, finding her daughter Julia, and walking dramatically off-screen as the plane explodes and the other passengers clap for her.]].

* ShockingSwerve: The film arguably seems to spend 80% of its run time building up some kind of psychodrama/supernatural horror twist. We have scare chords, flocks of crows, weird artsy editing implying ghostly apparitions of the dead husband in the intro and sinister morticians announcing unexplained death. [[spoiler:And then it's suddenly revealed that actually a huge number of contrived events have allowed a terrorist to mastermind an incredibly generic yet far-fetched plot of obscene complexity.]]