Not Bad for A First Script — 3 years ago
And we are talking about a Tv writer who sold his soul for Xena and Animorphs…
For a psychological thriller. the movie was a disappointment. The hero (Lisa) may have a life, but she doesn’t have a character. She’s too much like many other girls i’ve met in my very short life. Because of that, nothing in her way of thinking (like it’s supposed to be in this genre) changes and therefore nothing in this movie matters as well. Still, some of the choices in the script are very good. For example, locating most of the plot in a plane, connecting the killer and the victim in the airport (brilliant!) and of course the choice to fill the plane with funny characters who can’t tell what’s going on. The writer could even make the movie better if we could see that mysterious- smart- psycho Jack had some conflict in hunting Lisa… but that doesn’t happen. Shame. because then the script could have been so much better.
On the other hand the directing is too dramatic. In those thrillers we use the silence before the screams. Although you have suspencion all along the movie, there is always some storm before something happens. The music is also too dramatic, and sometimes, like in the end of themovie, the shot is too small and doesn’t use the irony accepted in this case.
a writer, a director. such a story asks these.
