Nadja (Peri Baumeister) suffers from a rare disease that makes it hard for her to go out in the sun, so she and her son Elias (Carl Anton Koch) are on board a nightflight to the USA for treatment - a flight that's taken over by terrorists who want to crash the plane into London to ... well, their motives aren't quite clear, but they're terrorists for hire, who not only plan to parachute out of the plane well before the crash, but also blame it on a handful of Muslim passengers on the plane they force to read a bogus manifesto - among them Farid, whom Elias has taken an instant liking in. Elias is a boy almost too bright for his own good, so he tries to find a hiding place aboard the plane for him and his mom, but when Nadja comes after him, Eightball (Alexander Scheer), the psychopath among the baddies, shoots her dead in cold blood - much to the shock of everyone. Only she isn't really dead, manages to drag herself to the cargo bay when nobody's looking, and once there opens one of the pet cages to kill a little dog and drink its blood, because, gasp, she's a vampire. And when she catches a terrorist placing some explosives, she kills him and drinks his blood as well. But that's not a good thing, because she has been fighting her own vampirism ever since she has been turned, and the more blood she drinks the more her bloodlust grows. That's bad, what's good though, she's really good at killing terrorists, and after immediate shock, the innocent passengers even come to the conclusion they can trust her - despite her nasty, Nosferatu-like looks. Thing is, Eightball eventually finds out about her secret, takes some of her blood and injects it himself - and before you know it he has turned all the other terrorists still alive, and they start to attack the passengers. The good thing about this is they forget about their mission in the process, and Farid - who has lost a hand during the proceedings - manages to land the airplane in Scotland where it's greeted by heavy military. Thing is, is even the military enough to fight a mob of blood-frenzied vampires ...

Now on paper this sounds like lots of fun, a vampire against terrorists on a plane - but unfortunately the makers wanted to go for something more high brow than a silly (but potentially fun) high concept film, and had the bad sense to give the film's protagonist a rather tragic backstory (not to speak of a quickly annoying son) that's told in great detail, but does nothing other than hammer the point home again and again that Nadja is just a victim of circumstances and by no means evil per se. And unfortunately, the film's also really blunt about this, and so repetitive the backstory often gets into the way of the main plot and the buildup of tension. On the plus side though, there are plenty scenes of carnage in this one, and most of the action is pretty well-staged. It's just a shame that the film undersells its premise by desparately trying to be more than an enjoyably silly genre flick - and coming out as less, really.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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