Fresh
Resourceful, Los Angeles-shot low-budgeter is solidly assembled, with Xander Lott's unobtrusive yet unsettling score a plus.
Dennis Harvey, Variety
Overview
A news crew is taken hostage on an airplane set to take off from the Seychelles.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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43%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Brand devotes so much running time to fear-mongering and grotesque stereotypes that a last-ditch effort at moral ambiguity and a critique on muckraking barely register.
Martin Tsai, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
Even the failure to find a persuasive closing note doesn't detract from Mr. Oyelowo's riveting performance.
Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times
Rotten
Brand works hard at verisimilitude on the plane and in the film's many intercut cable-news segments, but it's hard to achieve realism in a mode that's so completely contrived.
Chris Packham, Village Voice
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