Nope, not a good movie, future me do not watch this again, it was really hard to watch the first time, mostly due to bad script I’d say, really bad, the characters reactions made no sense, were completely off. The rest is not great either - I can save the lights. Acting, not enough, directing, not enough, etc etc. It’s not an action movie, no action whatsoever; it’s not really a dramatic movie despite the plot, because I didn’t feel any of their emotion, I can’t even believe it that I didn’t shed a single tear but that’s the truth.
Roman goes to the airport to get his wife and his pregnant daughter that are coming back home, but they take him to a secluded room and tell him that there’s been an accident and his family is dead. Next, we meet Jacob, a man with a wife and a son who works in the airport, telling planes what they must do. He is left alone in the room, two men work on the phones and another guy gives him a task, to direct a plane to another airport, then everyone leaves and he’s alone, and the phone doesn’t work and he can’t contact the other airport, so he goes back and forth from the monitor where he checks the planes to the phone to speak with the airport, and there’s a misunderstanding with one plane, it keeps going forward and crashes into another one.
Everything falls on him, which is honestly unfair, why was he alone? Why nobody cares about the other problems, like the phones not working?
Jacob’s reaction is shock, of course, but not the one I was expecting, he just asks how many deaths and says that it wasn’t his fault. I mean, I don’t think it was totally his fault, but he’s in part responsible, and knowing that, how can a normal person react like that?
Roman’s reaction is shock, of course. Not much of a reaction there, actually, but the scene when he pretends to be a volunteer helper to pick up things on the crash site, and he finds the bodies of his family and cries hugging his daughter, what was that? So when a plane crashes, they leave everything around, bodies included, and let random volunteers to deal with it??? Seriously, is this how it works in America? Or anywhere else for that matter?
Jacob stays home, barely leaves the bed, keeps the tv on the news, the front of his house is covered with ‘killer’ and ‘murderer’ writings all in red, I guess made by the same person, there’s just one person around there that is angry at Jacob. One morning his son wakes up early, Jacob is still up watching the news and makes him breakfast, eggs, but doesn’t turn on the stove and puts everything on the plate, raw eggs… and the wife is supershocked, immediately goes to throw it away, Jacob says it’s good she says it’s raw and they yell and I think they break the plate, and just like that it’s a super tragedy, she tells him that he must not take it out on their son, she apologises to the child as if they had done something terrible, and next thing you know she’s leaving Jacob alone taking her son to her sister, because she says he needs to deal with it…
I mean, seriously? She leaves him alone just like that? Because he didn’t cook the eggs right?? He needs his family’s support!
One year later, Jacob is in another city, another job, another name, and a journalist who wrote a book on the accident finds him, now Pat, and gives his name to Roman. Seriously?? Just because Roman told her he simply wants the man to apologise for the death of his family? Are they for real? How can she know that the grieving man won’t kill the guy?
Roman meets two young lawyers who offer him 160.000$ if he doesn’t sue the company, 85 for his wife and 75 for his daughter… I’m a bit disgusted here, anyway, the two young men are icy cold, not even bothering to fake a heart when he shows them a picture of his family.
Eventually Roman shows up at Jacob’s door showing the picture and demanding an apology. Jacob yells for him to leave, that his family and son are in there, that it was an accident and he didn’t kill anybody, and Roman kills him, stabbing his throat. When wife and son see it, Roman calls them with his wife and daughter’s names, and they cry while he just sits there with his picture in hand.
After ten years in prison, he gets out and goes to the cemetery again, to meet his family. A young man approaches him, asking for directions, and they walk together and talk. I don’t know how Roman understands who he is, but he does, and the kid has a gun at his head but he doesn’t shoot. Roman is all, “do what you have to do, I understand, I’m sorry” but the guy doesn’t do it because “it’s not what I was taught”, which is probably the only good line of the movie. Jacob wasn’t a bad man.
A good scene was when Roman talks to the husband of another victim, that was not bad. The guy and his words were ok.
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