Taking Aim

America - the World’s policeman

August 18th, 2006 by andy

I watched Flightplan, the Jodie Foster film from a couple of years ago, on DVD last night.  It was quite entertaining stuff, although filled with a few plotholes that really were big enough to fly a jumbo jet through.

But the howler that amused me most was the film’s portrayal of the FBI.

I don’t think it’s giving too much of the plot away to reveal that, at one point in the film, the plane lands in Newfoundland, Canada.  There’s an airport there, because the first place where flights from Europe to the US fly over continental North America.

Anyway, the plane lands on Canadian soil and is at once surrounded by… FBI agents.  Who then go on to reveal that agents in their ‘Berlin office’ have arrested someone.

America - the world’s policeman.