Unpleasantly gripping thriller.
From the moment the film cuts to the cockpit the viewer becomes an intimate witness of all events unfolding hereafter. Director Patrick Vollrath main goals was clear right then: authenticity, realness. He achieved this by refraining from a background score, refreshingly unfilmy dialogue and filming with a hand-held camera focused on Joseph Cordon-Levitt who plays the first officer on a flight from Berlin to Paris under attack by terrorists. JGL brilliantly accomplishes the task of acting not acting, an acting style I haven't seen him doing before.
The art of this film lies in the conscious avoidance of art. There is no other poetry in the composition of dialogue, frames, cuts, and plot than you would expect in your daily life.
It is a tough yet riveting watching experience, I'm glad I stayed with it.