Flight That Disappeared, The

Poster tagline: TERROR IN THE SKY!! WHAT MYSTERIOUS FORCE HAS TAKEN CONTROL OF THE FLIGHT?? Nowadays a completely forgotten sci-fi piece that looks like an episode of the mystery TV series The Twilight Zone, popular in the 1960s, which was parodied by The Simpsons. This isn't a cheap, low-budget film to mock, or at least it successfully pretends to be so for most of its runtime. I would have cut the first half hour, all those conversations over coffee that don't move the plot anywhere, but again, thanks to the short runtime, they are bearable. Then, when the "hijacking of the plane" happens, the film starts to find itself in B-movie waters for a while. In this "mysterious world", where there is no time, no past, no present and no future, we creatures walking around in black trousers and white shirts and there’s no shortage of Dada moments. I would have liked a sharper twist, but the anti-war message is actually quite good. In the end, it fizzles out, but I can’t say a bad word about it. (07/09/2014)