George Clooney has whiffed with some of his most recent projects- Wolfs, The Midnight Sky, trying to make Nespresso seem like a brand for anyone besides assholes…so he is getting back to basics recalling one of his more well-regarded pictures as a man who is constantly traveling by air around the country to lay people off face-to-face during corporate restructures to make sure that even though groups of people are losing their livelihoods the news is delivered to them with his comely face and rakish charm to make the blow a little more tenable.
The twist this time is that while seeming to be the human element of corporate downsizing, Clooney’s character Seth is actually a white collar criminal- using his position and access to company databases to secretly siphon funds into his own off-shore accounts. After a particularly busy month of travel and theft he has one final flight on Aeromexico to get over the border to enjoy his ill-gotten funds and sip some delicious Casamigos tequila and third-wave Nespresso pods on the beaches of Cabo.
The real twist is that his flight is scheduled to be in the air during a full solar eclipse, and unbeknownst to Seth he is on a plane full of vampires, so after an hour and change of runtime with Clooney mugging handsomely in front of emotionally distraught office workers he now has to fight for his life while the vampires use the eclipse to feed on the human passengers in-flight. As the plane speeds up and changes direction to stay in the arc of the eclipse, allowing the vampires to run wild, Seth realizes he is in a fight for his life with only the toothpick from his dirty martini and a garlic clove from the hummus in his snack box to combat the creatures.