A highly regarded aviation black box investigator, Mathieu, is overlooked to take part in the investigation of a major commercial airline crash by his boss Pollock. When Pollock mysteriously disappears, Mathieu is asked to take over. More and more strange information comes to light and Mathieu become even more obsessed and paranoid than usual in his determining the cause of the crash.
Terrific, old fashioned, in a good way, thriller which Hitchcock would have been proud of. Whilst there are plenty of exciting more typical thriller elements on show, what really makes this a bit special is both the procedural, technical scenes relating to analysing the black box, which are quite riveting and more crucially the central character. His obsessive, autistic need to solve this come what may, even at a risk to his marriage makes for a quite different character than usual - this guy is no Cary Grant. In fact he's often irritating such that the scenes where he overstates his case and gets metaphorical doors slammed in his face because of his attitude ring a pleasantly different tone from usual. Really good thriller, amazed Hollywood hasn't yet pounced with Ryan Reynolds or Chris Pine in the lead.
Terrific, old fashioned, in a good way, thriller which Hitchcock would have been proud of. Whilst there are plenty of exciting more typical thriller elements on show, what really makes this a bit special is both the procedural, technical scenes relating to analysing the black box, which are quite riveting and more crucially the central character. His obsessive, autistic need to solve this come what may, even at a risk to his marriage makes for a quite different character than usual - this guy is no Cary Grant. In fact he's often irritating such that the scenes where he overstates his case and gets metaphorical doors slammed in his face because of his attitude ring a pleasantly different tone from usual. Really good thriller, amazed Hollywood hasn't yet pounced with Ryan Reynolds or Chris Pine in the lead.