Edge Of Your Seat Thriller 7500 Review
For the first half I was sitting on the edge of my seat; a great thriller. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was great as the co-pilot as was the age 18 terrorist (Omid Memar). I was so caught up in its anxiety, at times I had to walk away and not watch the screen while listening. Like all good thrillers, I found myself screaming at the characters on the screen, "Don't open the door," "Don't talk to them," "Turn off the camera," "Stop crying," "Pay attention to the other guy!" as the action ensued. As things became totally out-of-hand for the co-pilot, I was beginning to feel like C-3PO; "doomed." There came the time, however, that I started screaming at the terrorist, "Don't do it, don't do it!" as the obvious ending approached. Instead of looking at this as a script weakness, I found that the director did an excellent job making the audience feel that they were actually in the cockpit and taking on the lives of the two antagonistic characters. I don't think any adult, much less young adult, would exercise common sense when under that kind of internal, external, religious, and family pressure. The script did call for the co-pilot to calm the terrorist through some personal sharing but stopped short of helping him see there was "another way out." You have to pay close attention but this movie showed us all we needed to see, despite the sudden but expected ending.