Reviewed by Jacob Powell

WE'RE IN Germany, it’s dark, snowing and the stink of death is in the air. Kyle (Jodie Foster) is a mother on edge with grief, trying to hold it together for her daughter’s sake. As grieved mother and daughter board the monolithic, winged beast that is to be their transport home you begin to wonder what might, no, what will go wrong. As time (and clouds) fly by, you discover that it is, unfortunately, the film.

Reviewed by John Spry

THERE IS nothing new in Hollywood remaking already-produced and successful films: the motives are obvious and one reasoning is that if one film was a hit, then redoing it should also mean a hit. This logic however does not always follow for a variety of reasons – altered story-lines or even altered endings, for instance – that made the original so popular in the first place.