January is rarely a time for blockbuster cinema. In the rare case that it is, we're dealing with a holdover from December released the previous year (see, "Avatar: The Way of Water"). Or, it's something so bad that the studio has little faith in that they decide to dump it early in the year rather than give it a confident, summer release. So, it's easy to look at "Plane," a new mid-budget action/thriller starring Gerard Butler ("Olympus Has Fallen," "Law Abiding Citizen") and dismiss it as...