red eye movie review

A first-class thriller from Wes Craven

Cillian Murphy shares a not-so-tender "mile-high" moment with Rachel McAdams in Wes Craven's "Red Eye."

Wes Craven ’s “Red Eye” is movie that wants to be a good thriller, and moves competently, even relentlessly, toward that goal. It’s helped enormously by Rachel McAdams , whose performance is convincing because she keeps it at ground level; thrillers are invitations to overact, but she remains plausible even when the action ratchets up around her. When she’s stalking a terrorist with a hockey stick, she seems like a real woman stalking a real terrorist with a real hockey stick. It’s not as easy as it sounds.

The terrorist is played by Cillian Murphy , who was the sinister Scarecrow in “ Batman Begins ” and here plays a young man who seems pleasant and attractive to the heroine, until she asks him what his business is, and all the warmth goes out of his eyes as he says, “As fate would have it, my business is all about you.”

They meet in the Dallas-Ft. Worth airport. She’s Lisa, a hotel desk manager, on her way home to Miami. He’s the cute guy who helps her put down a jerk, buys her a drink, and ends up with the seat next to hers on the overnight flight. Murphy is handsome, but, like James Spader , the good looks come with a warning: There are ominous undertones here. Speaking softly, he explains that her father is being held hostage, that her help will be needed in a plot to blow up the deputy secretary of homeland security, and that her job is to call the hotel and have the security guy put in a suite where he can be more easily assassinated. The encouraging angle is that the deputy secretary is taken that seriously.

What makes this goal worthy of a thriller is that the terrorist plan is of course nine times more complicated than it needs to be, and is constructed entirely out of things that could go wrong. It’s remarkable that terrorists like these still possess feet they have not shot off. About the plot I will say no more, except in a general way: The scenes on board the airplane are about as convincing and plausible as they can be, given the situation. And the scenes after the plane lands bring a cool excellence to the standard scenario in which the killer and the victim stalk one another.

Maybe what I like best about the movie is its reticence. After a summer of crashes, bangs, endless chase scenes and special effects that belittle the actors standing in front of them, what a pleasure to see characters in a thriller doing what people like themselves possibly could do. There are no supernatural or superhuman feats in the film, unless you count the piddling detail that a character isn’t slowed down by an unexpected tracheotomy. The movie, bless its heart, even tries to make this development plausible, by providing a doctor who eyeballs the victim and says (I quote from memory) “It’s not too bad — only the larynx.”

The rise of Rachel McAdams has been spectacular, if only because it has been so steep; in 2002, she had eighth billing in “ The Hot Chick .” The only thing better would have been ninth billing. But then in 2004 she starred in “ Mean Girls ,” as the bitchiest girl in Lindsay Lohan ’s high school. It was a surprisingly good movie, and then came a straight romantic lead in “ The Notebook ” and a comic romantic lead in “ Wedding Crashers ,” where Owen Wilson fell in love with her and caught a heart-warming case of sincerity. Now this.

The previous three movies positioned McAdams as a rising star. “Red Eye” will be more important, because casting directors, who know what to look for, will see that she brings more presence and credibility to her role than is really expected; she acts without betraying the slightest awareness that she’s inside a genre. I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that she’s Canadian and thus culturally trained to avoid calling unnecessary attention to herself. Too many young Hollywood actors, especially in thrillers, think it’s all about them. Her performance qualifies her for heavy-duty roles. Cillian Murphy is already established and does not need discovering, but here he shows an ability to modulate his character instead of gnashing the scenery. They’re very effective together.

Wes Craven, the director, has been making thrillers for a long time, and knows how to do it. From “ Last House on the Left ” (1972) through “ Swamp Thing ” (1982), “ The Serpent and the Rainbow ” (1988) “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare” (1994) and the “ Scream ” movies, he has put stories and characters ahead of Gotcha! moments. Watching “Red Eye” function so smoothly, doing exactly what it was intended to do, I was reminded of Howard Hawks ’ definition of a good movie: “Three great scenes. No bad scenes.” Craven scores two and one. Not bad.

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• Jayma Mays as Cynthia
• Rachel McAdams as Lisa
• Jack Scalia as Charles Keefe
• Cillian Murphy as Rippner
• Beth Toussaint Coleman as Linda Keefe
• Brian Cox as Dad

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• Marco Beltrami
• Patrick Lussier
• Stuart Levy

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Entertaining thriller for teens and up.

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Parents need to know that the film focuses on a scary man threatening a young woman, who fights back with ingenuity and some violence. Directed by Wes Craven ( Nightmare on Elm Street , Scream ), it adopts a basic slasher movie structure, with jump scenes, clever framing, and ominous lighting, music, and…

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Brief drinking (Bay Breeze) in airport lounge.

Some cursing, mostly by the frustrated villain.

Mild flirtation. An airport bathroom tryst is hinted at.

Hitting, stabbing with a pen, shooting, slamming with household items, crashing

Airport shows some shops, Dr. Phil gets a plug.

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Terrorists are nasty, heroic girl is resourceful.

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An intense and entertaining thriller, what's the story.

Following her grandmother's funeral, Lisa ( Rachel McAdams ) first on her way back to her Miami home. She checks in with the hotel she manages as the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Charles Keefe ( Jack Scalia ) is arriving; only Lisa knows precisely what he needs and when. Seated next to Lisa is Jackson Ripper ( Cillian Murphy ). When Lisa observes that this name choice "wasn't very nice of your parents," he smiles, so slightly, and jokes, "That's what I told them, before I killed them." Before long, Jackson's flirtation with Lisa turns ugly. Threatening to have Lisa's father killed, he insists that she change the Deputy Secretary's room in order to set him up for a missile attack.

Is It Any Good?

An entertaining, mostly smart scary movie, Wes Craven 's RED EYE effectively updates the slasher flick to address current fears. The monster here is no lumbering and disfigured nightmare, but instead an attractive, slightly built mercenary -- a terrorist for hire. While the specifics of the terrorist plot only get more outrageous, it establishes a recognizable and nervous-making context and gives Lisa all sorts of opportunities to assert her resistance to being bullied, to stand up for her country, and save her dad. That is, she becomes the Last Girl of slasher films, an action hero, and a domestic defender, all in one swoop.

This multiplication of her roles is helped along when she makes Jackson angry on landing, deciding that she will not participate in the terror plot or pretend it's not her job to stop it. She is the ideal citizen, post-9/11. Inexplicably, the professional Jackson takes her resistance personally, and ends up chasing her to her home. This likens him to the horror movie monsters who invade homes (Freddy Krueger among them) and only compounds Red Eye 's many metaphorical allusions to "homeland security." Tough, ingenious, and completely fun to watch, Lisa makes the narrative absurdities seem irrelevant.

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Families can talk about the ways Lisa comes up with to resist the terrorist, as she tries to leave messages, get attention from flight attendants, and finally resists (and solicits audience cheers). How does the movie build toward showing her resourcefulness, by first making her seem vulnerable and afraid? As the terrorists threaten family units (not only Lisa's father, but also the family of the Homeland Security Deputy Director), how does the movie use the idea of "terrorism" as an updated metaphorical danger?

Movie Details

• In theaters : August 19, 2005
• On DVD or streaming : January 10, 2006
• Cast : Brian Cox , Cillian Murphy , Rachel McAdams
• Director : Wes Craven
• Inclusion Information : Female actors
• Studio : DreamWorks
• Genre : Thriller
• Run time : 85 minutes
• MPAA rating : PG-13
• MPAA explanation : some intense sequences of violence, and language
• Last updated : September 5, 2024

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For his 20th feature, horror legend Wes Craven took a conscious decision to leave behind the genre which has served him so well over 30 years in favour of close relative the psychological thriller, in this case transferring the tribulation and terror from suburban, picket-fenced Middle America to the edgy context of the passenger jet. It’s a neat little concept, as hotel manageress Lisa Reisert (Mean Girls' McAdams) — not a fan of flying as it is — takes the red-eye home to Miami, only to discover that crashing is the least of her worries when she finds herself effectively taken hostage by fellow passenger Jackson (Murphy), on a murderous mission of which she now finds herself an unwilling part.Tapping into and then exaggerating anxieties many of us share, Craven handles the first hour with aplomb (but no bomb), slowly building the set-up while having fun with the clichés (a young blonde child is seen boarding her first flight alone), before switching gear abruptly when Jackson proves in an instant to be far from the charming would-be suitor Lisa was hoping would distract her from the flight. As they near Miami and Lisa’s deathly dilemma becomes more desperate, Craven keeps the energy high, introducing vicious new twists at a breathless pace while increasing the claustrophobia with almost constant close-ups of the central pair (screenwriter Ellsworth cites Phone Booth as an influence). McAdams makes an engaging and admirably resourceful heroine, while a typically impressive Murphy proves he doesn’t need a sack-cloth shroud and fear serum to scare — his ice-blue eyes, cold calm and sunken cheekbones making him an alluring yet deeply unnerving villain.Still, you can take the boy out of Elm Street, but as the last 20 minutes prove, it would seem you can’t entirely take Elm Street out of the boy. As the plane lands and the action transfers to Lisa’s family home, Craven returns to the standard tropes of the genre he shaped, with little of the postmodern irony of Scream — after a (presumably unintentionally) comic injury, Murphy’s Jackson even finds himself rasping, stumbling and demonically glaring like the best horror-movie monster. Although disappointing after the superior thriller of the first 70 minutes, the audience is by now having so much fun, and Craven knows this stuff so well, happily this makes for a far from fatal flaw.

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Red Eye (United States, 2005)

Red Eye belongs to the genre in which a director attempts to sustain a heightened level of suspense for long enough that the audience will not notice how incredibly stupid the screenplay is. Alfred Hitchcock was a master at this - although some of the scripts he worked with were masterpieces, one could argue that his true skill as a filmmaker was evident with those that weren't. More recently, Phone Booth and Cellular achieved success by doing as much as possible with a thin and implausible premise. Wes Craven's Red Eye is more of a mixed bag. There are stretches during the course of this 85-minute long motion picture when the director elevates the tension to an acceptable plateau, but there are also occasions when too much of the narrative seeps through and we see the seams in the storytelling.

Red Eye introduces us to Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams), who is stuck in a Texas airport on one of those days when weather issues make travel more of a trial than usual. After Lisa's regularly scheduled flight to Miami is canceled, she snags a seat on the red eye, then settles down with her cell phone to wait. Business intrudes, as Lisa's fill-in at a swank Florida hotel calls with an urgent need for advice. Apparently, although Lisa appears to be little more than a glorified receptionist, she's the most trusted person at the multi-million dollar hotel, and nothing can get done without her. But I digress… A suave international type with the unlikely name of Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy) chats up Lisa in the airport lounge, then, lo and behold, ends up in the seat next to her on the plane. At first, Lisa can't decide whether or not she's attracted to him, but, after the plane takes off and they start having a heart-to-heart, she discovers that the stomach-lurching turbulence the plane is enduring is a minor irritant compared to the dilemma she is about to face.

Red Eye is divided into three clearly identifiable acts. The first is setup. The second feels like more setup, but is actually the meat of the story. And the third is where all the good stuff occurs. Unfortunately, that means viewers have to sit through nearly an hour's worth of material before Craven starts ratcheting up the tension. The final 30 minutes are taut, and by then the adrenaline is flowing, but Red Eye takes too long to come up to speed. Consequently, the payoff - such as it is - is brief (although satisfactory).

The movie starts out by trying to fool us into believing we're going to watch an airport-based romance, but there are a couple of clues that this is a red herring. In the first place, it's hard to imagine Cillian Murphy as a romantic lead. The guy is too creepy. That's like making a love story starring Crispin Glover or Peter Lorre. Then there's the director. Wes Craven does not make romantic movies, unless it's about the tender kiss between a serrated knife and a jugular. Excepting the mainstream misfire Music of the Heart , Craven has remained a genre director, and that genre has nothing to do with love.

Red Eye 's problems arise not only from the protracted airport scenes but from the lack of tension while the characters are seated next to each other. We learn that Lisa's life is not in immediate danger (although her ground-bound father's is), which dampens the excitement of what transpires. Plus, there's a limit to what can happen in a crowded plane without raising the suspicion of other passengers. Once the plane has landed, however, possibilities open up, and Craven takes advantage of them. Suddenly, Lisa is in mortal danger, Jackson has given up all pretense of being cultured (he's into full psycho mode), and things start happening at a rapid clip.

Rachel McAdams continues to expand her range on her climb to what will likely be A-list status. (She's too good and too attractive to end up elsewhere.) In her last three movies, she has appeared in a romantic comedy ( Wedding Crashers ), a romantic drama ( The Notebook ), and a satire ( Mean Girls ). Now she can add "Wes Craven thriller" to her resume. Cillian Murphy is exactly what we would expect from a guy named Jackson Rippner. He previously appeared with a burlap sack over his head as Scarecrow in Batman Begins , and I'm awaiting his inevitable collaboration with David Lynch. (How is not possible that such a strange director and strange actor could not work together at some point?) The only other cast member with significant time is the highly respected British actor Brian Cox, and he probably showed up for about a week's worth of filming. As Lisa's dad, he spends most of his time sipping tea and talking to her on the phone.

As B-movies go, Red Eye acceptable, although it's probably better as video or TV fare than as a theatrical experience. Because of the attention lavished on setup and exposition during the first half, the film stumbles out of the starting gate, and it seems like more than 25 minutes have passed before the plane's wheels leave the ground. Nevertheless, there are enough thrills during the final third to give Red Eye viewers a few of Craven's patented jolts near the end. But it requires forbearance for both a silly script and uneven pacing to get to that point.

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Sticking Out a Tense Flight With a Terrorist as Seatmate

By Manohla Dargis

• Aug. 19, 2005

In "Red Eye," a nifty, tense thriller directed by Wes Craven, the young actress Rachel McAdams plays the world's greatest hotel worker. Even Russell Crowe would be hard-pressed to misbehave under the gentle watch of Ms. McAdams's charmer, an amalgam of smiles and steel named Lisa Reisert, who greets every problem -- cranky hotel guests and terrorists alike -- with can-do spirit. If you don't like your hotel room, Lisa will move you to nicer accommodations. And if you're planning to take out a deputy secretary of homeland security, well, Lisa will take care of you, too.

Written by Carl Ellsworth from a story by Mr. Ellsworth and Dan Foos, "Red Eye" brings together a classic thriller setup (a damsel in distress) and a relevant-sounding if thoroughly undercooked story involving worldwide terrorism. Despite a half-dozen actors made up to look like Secret Service agents and a big bang that ends the show, the real action in "Red Eye" unfolds in the close confines of an airborne passenger plane. When Lisa, en route home to Miami after attending a funeral, settles into steerage, she has no clue that a crying baby will be the least of her worries, what with the turbulence at takeoff and her very own personal terrorist, Jackson (Cillian Murphy), parked in the next seat.

Lisa first meets Jackson while standing in the check-in line. Hard-wired to help, Lisa has just gently berated a rude passenger on behalf of a harried airline worker, only to receive a mouthful of boorish attitude in return. Jackson, who had been hovering behind her, comes to Lisa's defense, forming a tentative bond that will be strengthened when they have a drink in the airport bar. Later, the two will also be seated in their own row on the plane, an apparent coincidence that pleases Lisa, deepening the rosy flush in her cheeks. After Jackson talks Lisa through their bumpy takeoff, she asks him what he does for a living. Oh, he says, turning his icy blues on her, "government overthrow, high-profile assassinations," you know, the usual.

It would give away too much of the film's skeletal plot to explain why Lisa has attracted such lethal company. Suffice it to say that Lisa's father, Joe (Brian Cox), plays a part in the larger picture, as does the deputy secretary of homeland security (Jack Scalia) and a rabbity hotel clerk (Jayma Mays). Mostly, though, the focus remains on Lisa and Jackson, who to outward appearances look like any other traveling young couple. Mr. Craven, a horror veteran who has a long history of infusing seemingly ordinary situations with a palpable sense of dread (think of Drew Barrymore simply on the phone in the opening of "Scream"), turns the sights and sounds of two people talking into a nerve-jangling duet for cat and mouse, hunter and prey.

Mr. Murphy, who plays a Renfield-like character with appreciable wit in "Batman Begins," makes enough of a picture-perfect villain here that his agent should worry about typecasting. The actor may not be remotely believable as a man of international mystery, but those baby blues look cold enough to freeze water and his wolfish leer suggests its own terrors.

For her part, the rather more robust Ms. McAdams appears as if she could take Mr. Murphy down on the count of three. If you don't look too closely, if you fail to see past the lissome figure and the dimples that punctuate her smile, you might not notice how this actress holds her gaze a few beats longer than need be, suggesting a depth of intensity uncommon in most Hollywood ingénues.

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Flying is not Lisa Reisert’s favorite thing to do. So when her red-eye flight back home to Miami is delayed, she’s happy to be distracted from her fear by the charming Jackson Rippner, whom she meets while waiting in line. The two continue their flirting over drinks and, lo and behold, end up seated next to each other on the plane.

Once the cabin door is locked, however, everything changes. Jackson reveals he’s been following Lisa and needs a “favor” from her. Turns out he’s been hired to ensure the assassination of Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Charles Keefe. Lisa, who’s in charge of reservations at the ritzy Miami hotel Keefe will be arriving at shortly, can change the VIP’s room arrangements with one call. If she doesn’t oblige, Jackson’s got a man stationed outside her father’s house, ready to kill Dad.

Positive Elements

Lisa has a kind heart, which comes through in her dealings with family, friends, hotel customers and strangers alike. When a rude man berates an airline representative for his flight’s delay, Lisa’s the first one to defend the worker for doing the best she can do. She maintains the same professionalism and courtesy to demanding hotel customers (see “Other Negative Elements” for an exception), and she stands up for her co-workers.

It’s obvious that Lisa and her father love each other deeply. Throughout the movie, she does everything she can—often putting her own life at risk—to keep her dad safe. Yet her bravery isn’t just for her own relatives, as she also goes to great lengths to prevent Keefe, his family and her fellow airline passengers from being killed.

Spiritual Elements

Jackson makes a toast to Lisa’s grandmother, commenting that her “spirit is very much alive.” He also jokes that God created Tex-Mex.

Sexual & Romantic Content

Flight attendants make a few “mile high club” remarks when Lisa and Jackson end up in the bathroom together during the flight. Although nothing sexual occurred, as the pair exits the crowded space, Jackson crudely says, “Thanks for the quickie.” Lisa jokes about her grandmother living longer because of a boyfriend’s TLC.

Lisa takes off her shirt at the airport after having coffee spilled on it, and we see her in her bra. The camera later zooms in on a scar above her breast. A plane passenger wears a low-cut blouse.

Violent Content

People get shot, shot at, whacked over the head with a field hockey stick, run over with a vehicle, punched and kicked. A puddle of blood forms as one man dies. Another victim is stabbed in the throat with a pen (he later yanks it out). A man gets a shoe heel lodged in his leg. A chase scene includes chairs, vases and other household items being thrown.

Jackson chokes Lisa and frequently pushes her around. He also knocks her out with a head butt and lunges at her with a knife. On one occasion, she’s tossed down a flight of stairs. An entire section of a high-rise building explodes after being hit with a missile.

Lisa recounts being assaulted in a parking lot, which included having a knife held to her throat. Jackson jokes about killing his parents as a youngster.

Crude or Profane Language

The f-word gets its token one-per-PG-13 use; the s-word is heard just under a dozen times. God’s name is misused half that much (in addition to a couple utterances of “jeez.”). A handful of other mild profanities include “a–hole” and “h—.”

Drug & Alcohol Content

Despite the fact that the movie has such a thin plot (or maybe because of it), alcohol gets lots of mentions and screen time. Lisa and Jackson share drinks at an airport bar, where liquor bottles and glasses are shown in the background. He attempts to guess her beverage of choice, mentioning such generics as vodka and a screwdriver. The correct answer is a Bay Breeze, a glass of which Lisa downs. She later blames the drink—and some cheap wine she had at her grandmother’s funeral—for her clumsiness, though we suspect that Jackson may have slipped her a Mickey. A stewardess jokes about joining Lisa for another drink. Jackson makes a comment about how Lisa’s daily routine includes having a cocktail. Keefe’s room is prepared with goodies that include a bottle of Cristal and cigars. Lisa and a friend’s final act is heading to the hotel bar.

Other Noteworthy Elements

Lisa becomes irritated during an interaction with a pair of hotel guests and makes a crude remark to them. She also steals a car while being chased.

If you’ve seen the trailer for Red Eye , you know most of what happens. Girl meets guy. Girl sits next to guy on plane. Guy turns out to be an evil operative in an assassination plot who is holding her father hostage. What’s a girl to do?

The result is an 85-minute flyaway flick that feels more like a film school project than a nationally released movie from horror guru Wes Craven. Maybe the blame should rest on the shoulders of rookie screenwriter Carl Ellsworth, who’s used to writing one-hour dramas for TV (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena: Warrior Princess) . Apparently, he and Craven were counting on the believability of being stuck on an airplane with a gentleman-turned-killer to sustain the fear factor. And tension definitely runs high in the beginning as you wonder how in the world Lisa can possibly escape such a claustrophobic situation. But that’s about the only intriguing thing Red Eye has going for it. With its one-dimensional characters and quickly resolved conflict (not to mention vulgar language, violent confrontations and obsession with alcohol), this is one flight not worth staying awake for.

Marcus Yoars

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‘Red Eye’ Movie Review (2005)

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One of my favorite performances of the year so far has to be Cillian Murphy in Batman Begins, he completely grasped the essence of evil and had me believing it the whole way, so to think that Murphy was teaming with one of the masters of horror in Wes Craven for a new thriller had me a bit giddy, then I saw the trailers.

The teaser trailer to Red Eye had me thinking I was getting involved with something evil, and by evil I mean Devil-style evil not just bad guy evil. Then came the official trailer, which featured fast driving cars, rocket launchers and foot chases… What? What happened? Where did the “red eye” go?

Well, as the second trailer points out this is far from the Wes Craven tales we have come to know such as A Nightmare on Elm Street , Scream or even this year’s Cursed . This isn’t horror, this is a thriller and it’s executed well, at least to the point where you are intrigued throughout, yet it doesn’t knock your socks off.

The story begins as we meet Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) as she is returning home after mourning her recently deceased grandmother. The key to this story is not Lisa’s deceased family member, but her simple career as a senior hotel worker, cue Jackson Rippner played by the adept Cillian Murphy.

Murphy has a knack for creepy and as Jackson his goal is to play the suave and debonair mystery man to McAdams’ Lisa until he can layout his well thought out plan once the red eye flight to Miami gets in the air. You see, Rippner is a representative for a terrorist organization set out to assassinate Homeland Security director Charles Keefe (Jack Scalia) and Lisa’s pull at the Lux Atlantic hotel, one of Keefe’s regular stays while in Miami places her in the hot seat. Compiled with her fear of flying, the tension mounts further once she realizes her father’s (Brian Cox) life is also at stake.

Already being described as a throwback to Hitchcock and what might be his take on the 9/11 terrorist attacks I have to say Red Eye is getting a bit too much credit. While the film is good, and the claustrophobia driven first half of the flick builds tension as it takes place primarily on the plane, things change once the flight lands and things take to the streets. It is here the story seems to falter and become more like its predecessors as opposed to a unique thriller.

Considering the film has a running time of only 76 minutes the above complaint is only in reference to the final 30 minutes of the picture, and while the ending is un-original it isn’t lacking in suspense. Craven manages to keep you wondering what is around each and every corner while Rachel McAdams plays an excellent damsel in distress opposite Murphy’s menace.

Red Eye is far from perfection but in a year absent of any real suspense it is the closest thing to fear inducing we have up to this point so if a thrill is what you are out for, Red Eye may be your solution.

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From director Wes Craven (the "Scream" franchise) comes "Red Eye," a suspense thriller at 30,000 feet, starring Rachel McAdams ("The Notebook," "Wedding Crashers") and Cillian Murphy ("Batman Begins," "28 Days Later"). Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) hates to fly, but the terror that awaits her on the night flight to Miami has nothing to do with a fear of flying. Upon boarding the plane, Lisa is pleasantly surprised to find that she is seated next to Jackson (Cillian Murphy), the seemingly charming man with whom she had shared a drink -- and perhaps even a brief flirtation -- in the airport terminal. But moments after takeoff, Jackson drops his façade and menacingly reveals the real reason he's on board: He is an operative in a plot to kill the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security...and Lisa is the key to its success. If she refuses to cooperate, her own father will be killed by an assassin awaiting a call from Jackson. Trapped within the confines of a jet at 30,000 feet, Lisa has nowhere to run and no way to summon help without endangering her father, her fellow passengers and her own life. As the miles tick by, Lisa knows she is running out of time as she desperately looks for a way to thwart her ruthless captor and stop a terrible murder.

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Red Eye (2005)

In the very first scene, one where nothing important happens, we already know we’re watching a thriller. If you never saw the trailer or poster for Red Eye , this scene would help you. The score is what tips us off; it’s fast-paced, frantic, and it wants you to feel that way. It attempts to get your heart racing before we’ve even met a single character. It’s not exactly successful — I know I was laughing at its audacity — but it can help some people out if they need that extra prompt.

There are three distinct sections to Red Eye . The first takes place in an airport and before the titular red-eye flight to Miami takes off. The second is on the flight, where we learn about whose life is on the line and why. The final is after the airplane lands, which, funnily enough, is when the film really takes off. It allows director Wes Craven to remove the constraints that come from filming in a crowed airplane, where he can finally have some creativity. That’s not to say that earlier parts aren’t still fun, but in the final third, things really get going.

Our protagonist is Lisa (Rachel McAdams), a hotel manager who has dedicated her life to running the hotel. She’s become a recluse, pretty much, although she’s liked by all of her customers and staff members. She’s about to fly back to Miami, where her hotel is, after being out of town to attend her grandmother’s funeral. At the airport, she runs into a charming man named Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy), who buys her a drink and they talk for a while. They bid adieu, although we know they’ll be seated very close on the airplane.

That’s exactly what happens, although once the plane reaches cruising altitude, Jackson’s plan is revealed: He’s going to threaten Lisa’s father (Brian Cox), saying that if Lisa doesn’t do exactly what he wants, he’ll call a man who will kill her dad. He wants her to call her hotel, move a guest to a different room, and … that’s it. That’s all she has to do, and her father will live without any knowledge that his life was on the line. Why she even hesitates is beyond me.

She eventually realizes that Jackson is moving this guest so that the guest and his entire family will be killed. See, Jackson is another “manager,” ensuring that people who want other people dead will be killed in some fashion or another. This is his plan, and the rest of the film deals with Lisa trying to outsmart him and make sure that her guest doesn’t die, as well as ensuring that her father lives. Her life comes into question later on as well. And this, dear audience, is why this movie is a thriller.

At least we can say that Red Eye doesn’t rely heavily on special effects or unbelievable scenes. Everything in this film could conceivably happen, which is almost always a plus. We can believe every scene in this movie because nothing feels terribly unrealistic. When something happens, it feels kind of visceral because it could happen in real life. Our suspension of disbelief is stretched later on, but for the most part, we can believe everything that happens within the movie.

There is enough humor within the film to keep us laughing throughout what could be dull moments. The final few lines will stick with me for a few days because they had me laughing quite a bit. They also show a bit of character development that I thought was missing through most of the film, but ended up being included. While most of Red Eye involves a battle of wits between Lisa and Jackson, the two characters actually do develop a tad bit as well, which is always nice to see.

However, since most of it involved Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy going at one another — mostly in a battle of words — you need the actors to have good chemistry. Thankfully, they do, and you can believe all of the scenes that they’re involved in. There’s one scene in a bathroom cubicle that is both hilarious and terrifying, and the two actors sell it so well. There are a few other scenes that work only because the two leads have such good chemistry.

Red Eye might not have worked if it had a director who wanted to make a longer movie. The movie only lasts 85 minutes, and that’s the perfect amount of time for this type of thing. It ensures that very little amount of time is wasted, and that the thrills are constant and unrelenting. Once we get on the aircraft, we’re stuck on it like Lisa is, and the thrills are definitely there. Murphy makes for a very menacing victim, and McAdams is perfect as the reluctant hero and woman in peril. Brian Cox is underused as Lisa’s father, and it would have been nice to include him in a role that wasn’t just as a could-be victim.

Red Eye is a very entertaining film that thankfully understands that it doesn’t need to be two hours long to still be entertaining. It has two lead actors with great chemistry, a very sharp pacing which makes sure that we are never bored, enough laughs to keep the mood light despite what’s happening throughout, and is just pretty fun overall. It’s silly, and it doesn’t always make complete sense, but it’s very enjoyable and is absolutely worth the 85 minutes it takes to play.

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Red Eye is a 2005 American psychological thriller film directed by Wes Craven and written by Carl Ellsworth based on a story by Ellsworth and Dan Foos. It stars Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, and Brian Cox. The story follows a hotel manager ensnared in an assassination plot by a terrorist while aboard a red-eye flight to Miami.

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With my folks in town and some time to kill, we decided to sit back and watch the latest Wes Craven psychological thriller Red Eye . Personally, I had absolutely no idea what this movie was about except for the fact it had some shit to do with a plane, a pretty girl and a crazy guy.

So, going into the movie with no expectations, it is safe to come out of the movie feeling lost and confused. Wes Carven has clearly lost his touch. His attempts to build tension are lost. There are quite literally no moments of suspense or feelings of heart-in-your-throat, pulse punding fear. None. Even worse is the slow pace Red Eye starts with. The movie goer is supposed to learn the nuances of our heroine (Rachel McAdams) so that we can build a relationship with her (so we feel bad if she gets killed). This does not happen. Instead, we are dragged through 40 minutes of airport lines and phones calls to the hotel and ultimately left with a ‘why the fuck did I just sit through all that’ feeling.

However, all is not bad. Cillian Murphy plays the part of a ‘killing is my business, it’s nothing personal’ role to a tee. I actually believed he was a cold-hearted motherfucker. Rachel McAdams, America’s newest sweetheart, pretties up the picture quite well. Murphy is an ugly son-of-a-bitch so having McAdams next to him in most scenes does well for the psyche. We’ll have to hope next time she shows us some skin, however.

Overall, the movie is quite the lame duck. You will find yourself second-guessing McAdams every move and literally wishing Murphy kills her for the stupid shit she does. Red Eye is so full of flaws and lack of common sense that you will feel used and abused after watching.

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September 15, 2005 @ 11:23 am Cannabis Corpus

Let me start of the review by saying in a word, this movie sucked. This movie had the potential to be something else but ended up being a complete turkey. After 86 minutes, the ending of the movie was just like the rest of the movie — comedic relief. There was no resolution, because there was no reason to care. So there’s about 10 minutes of chick flick, then about a good 45 minutes of airplane drama (admittedly, the only portion of the movie of some quality), and then it’s cliche after cliche, after cliche. Couple of good things about the movie, Rachel McAdams was hot, it was a feast to watch her. Cillian Murphy did an amazing job in playing the bad guy, calm, evil and creepy. The one scene where he heads Rachel and knocks her out was completely unexpected. The rest of the events in the movie are not even worth mentioning as they are predictable and stupid. Bottom line, a third rate thriller with just blotches of intensity. I rate this movie C.

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'Red Eye' review: Flying on a wing and a prayer

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'Just between us, we would have been overjoyed to find Liam Neeson as the air marshal on this flight.' Photos: Handout

Why do TV characters, who really should know better, do stupid or weird stuff that invariably lands them in trouble? Why, to advance the plot of many a thriller, of course.

The laziness of such writing/plotting aside, this is how it goes for the main bloke in ITV's six-part Red Eye : he fights a nightclub bouncer in Beijing, gets stabbed in the side, drives off, crashes the car in the rain and then walks away – all in the opening minutes.

Rather than report the matter to the authorities, visiting vascular surgeon Matthew Nolan (Richard Armitage, aka the Harlan Coben screen adaptation avatar) patches himself up, catches an earlier flight home to London, and immediately gets detained upon arrival.

What follows is a steadily (downward) spiralling nightmare as Matthew finds himself accused of murder, stuck in holding for hours without being allowed even a phone call, and set for extradition to China.

Extradition? Extraordinary rendition, more like it, from the hostile and severe way he is treated by his compatriots – namely, Border Security and the airport police. Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty", fellas?

Seriously, the sheer ill-tempered surliness of Matthew's captors here is so arbitrary that it borders on cartoonish.

Surely it's not just because of his entitled attitude when they stop him at the arrival gate? Or could it be political pressure from shadowy quarters?

My money's on the latter but, long story short, Matthew finds himself on the next flight to Beijing, handcuffed and escorted by detective constable Hana Li (Jing Lusi, Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa , Crazy Rich Asians ).

This is no "mere" murder case either since it shows up on MI5's radar – that of its director-general Madeline Delaney (Lesley Sharp), no less.

The plots of entire Slow Horses seasons have been built around her position, I'll have you know. And the show wastes little time in showing that this particular "incarnation" of the intelligence agency is in bed with the CIA.

Very quickly too, Red Eye makes it appear as if Matthew is being made a patsy of some kind, along with a few of his peers who are "persuaded" to return to Beijing to testify against him.

A far-reaching conspiracy appears to be afoot, as evident from surreptitious luggage exchanges in airport toilets, shifty-eyed flight personnel who disregard shocking events on board... even an air marshal who inexplicably attacks the one other person on board he knows for sure is a cop.

The set-up here is so loaded with heavy-handed foreshadowing that it reminded me of a story where a paranoid guy gets on a red-eye flight and starts suspecting everyone else on board is a vampire. It turns out to be true, and he winds up as the in-flight meal.

No bloodsuckers here, and it can't be said with certainty that writer Peter A. Dowling was aiming for a potboiler vibe, but that's definitely what we get (interestingly, Dowling was also co-writer of the 2005 mid-air nailbiter Flight Plan with Jodie Foster).

Red Eye – unconnected to another mid-air nailbiter, the similarly-titled Rachel McAdams-Cillian Murphy 2015 thriller – is the kind of ludicrously assembled pressure-cooker thriller where many of the elements don't hold up to the slightest scrutiny.

Anyone familiar with the mid-air thriller sub-genre will find lots of familiarity here, from the previously listed efforts to Idris Elba's Hijack and even this year's Bollywood actioner Yodha with Sidharth Malhotra.

The resulting concoction is a twisty ride where characters drop dead like flies, people exercising their rights get pulled into mysterious vans, Matthew steadily chips away at Hana's indifference to his plight, police and intelligence operatives spill secrets to civilians (like Hana's pesky budding journalist half-sister Jess, played by Jemma Moore) with reckless abandon... in short, it's a hot mess, but you just can't look away.

Providing some kind of anchor here, we have Armitage who switches gears effortlessly from puzzled to entitled to frantic to coolly professional (and, by the end of the mid-way point, mysterious too) in a way only someone so familiar to the TV/streaming viewer base can get away with.

It's largely thanks to him that Red Eye has somehow held its patchwork self together to this point. As to whether or not the stitching survives the landing/final act, well, that's still up in the air.

New episodes of Red Eye air at 9.50pm every Monday on AXN (Astro Ch 701/ Unifi TV Ch 453).

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