![]() The story follows Nadja ( Peri Baumeister), a German widow with a mysterious illness, who with her young son Elias ( Carl Anton Koch) boards the airline Transatlantic 473 flying to New York to visit a doctor, hoping that his medical facility has a treatment for her. ![]() Though at times it does seem overlong and finds itself succumbing to Netflix’s apparent two-hour duration requirement, thankfully, director Peter Thorwarth and co-writer Stefan Holtz are able to engagingly mishmash the two genres well and incorporates a lot of tension and thrills, making it stand well as a suspenseful, moving, and surprising film from start to finish. However, this new Netflix release, which is partially in English and partially in German, is more on the lines of the obscure and corny Snakes on a Plane (2006), only replaced with a serious tone and vampire twist.ĭrawing from many influences, with just enough character development through slow-burned flashbacks and a propensity to turn the tables when you least expect it, the film isn’t out to defy genre limitations, but to satisfy its blood thirty audience with a pretty decent vampire flick, only with the added bonus of successfully fusing that with a pretty solid hijacked plane film. ![]() My Take – I think we all have seen enough aircraft hijackings features to last a lifetime, but with amount of intensity and thrill attached to the sub-genre, filmmakers keep finding their way back to tell a familiar tale with their set of plot twists as seen in Flight Plan (2005) and Non Stop (2014), or add technical twists as seen in the Amazon Prime released cockpit-only vehicle 7500 (2019), or just decide to keep it simple blockbuster-y like Passenger 57 (1992) Executive Decision (1996) and Air Force One (1997) or go the complete B film route. Synopsis – A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight.
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