This film is so bad and on so many levels it's hard to find a place to start. Okay, so we have a crash investigator who's afraid of flying. Yes, that's deeply ironic. Her brother dies on the plane that she bolted off of in a panic attack, her mother is dealing with both the loss of her son and the miraculous sparing of her daughter. Anybody in these situations would be numb for months just trying to process all of this, but not these two women. Through a combination of bad writing and bad directing, we fast-track past the five stages of grief and submerge ourselves into the investigation by a disgraced former employee of the (wait for it) "National Air Crash Board". Seriously?
The real investigators of the NACB are too incompetent or wrapped up in politics to see the evidence that their former colleague screams at them, so it's up to our maverick heroine to bust the case wide open. Of course there's the obligatory Muslim investigator who spends a lot of suspicious time at his mosque; no red herrings here. She has her suspicions of who the culprit is early on in the story, and without any attempt at plot twists or misdirection, turns out to right in a ridiculous and unsatisfying ending.
I watched this through to the end because it became a study of bad storytelling. With so many good offerings available to us these days, do yourself a favour, skip past this one, and trust the trending titles on Netflix.
The real investigators of the NACB are too incompetent or wrapped up in politics to see the evidence that their former colleague screams at them, so it's up to our maverick heroine to bust the case wide open. Of course there's the obligatory Muslim investigator who spends a lot of suspicious time at his mosque; no red herrings here. She has her suspicions of who the culprit is early on in the story, and without any attempt at plot twists or misdirection, turns out to right in a ridiculous and unsatisfying ending.
I watched this through to the end because it became a study of bad storytelling. With so many good offerings available to us these days, do yourself a favour, skip past this one, and trust the trending titles on Netflix.
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