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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Dreamworks Video
Salesrank: 28112
Released: January 10, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A WOMAN IS KIDNAPPED BY A STRANGER ON A ROUTINE FLIGHT. THREATENED BY THE POTENTIAL MURDER OF HER FATHER, SHE IS PULLED INTO A PLOT TO ASSIST HER CAPTOR IN OFFING A POLITICIAN.
Description of Red Eye (Full Screen Edition):
Veteran horror director Wes Craven lends his proven talent to the non-horror thriller Red-Eye, turning it into an above-average potboiler that makes the most of its 85 tension-packed minutes. That's a perfect running time for a movie like this, in which a resourceful heroine Lisa (Rachel McAdams, the breakout star of 2005) is trapped on a red-eye flight with creepy villain Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy, even more menacing than he was as the Scarecrow in Batman Begins) who's playing middle-man in the plot to assassinate a Homeland Security official. He's got her father pinned down by a would-be killer, using that advantage to coerce Lisa into phoning the luxury resort where she works and arranging to move the target into a pre-set position. It's a situation from which there is seemingly no escape, but of course Craven and screenwriter Carl Ellsworth find a way to milk the suspenseful dilemma for all it's worth, even managing to wedge in a few intriguing character details to enhance the fast-moving plot. It's still a B-movie, but it's tightly constructed and well-executed by Craven, whose previous films made him a perfect choice to maximize all that Red-Eye has to offer. --Jeff Shannon
Red Eye (Full Screen Edition) Reviews:
Rachel McAdams at her best! Amazing Thriller! 
2009-11-29 - A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in offing a politician. - - [...]
OK so the plot is pretty simple. If you don't do this, then I will kill your Dad. But if you do do this, then you kill someone else. So whats the choice?
Plain and simple huh? Well the movie had a lot more going for it. As the main character, Rachel McAdams is a strong and willing hero. She plays the character to a "T" and with Cillian Murphey as the creepy man threatening her, the acting is amazing. Cillian Murphey has a certain scaryness to him and the plot keeps rolling in the movie. I would recommend it to ANYONE as it is very entertaining. The acting is worth the money alone!
One of Rachel McAdams' best movies! 
2009-08-23 - For anyone who loves Rachel McAdams, then you'll love this one!
"Red Eye" is a thriller! It's creepy and may make you not want to fly on an airplane ever again. At the very least, it may keep you from talking to a complete stranger in the airport or next to you on the plane.
"Red Eye" follows the life of a young woman, Lisa, who is on the way home after her grandmother has died. She works for a high end hotel and ends up getting called while she's gone. While waiting in line to check in, people complain and since she's from a customer service background she tries to calm the crowd. Being irrate isn't going to get them anywhere. She ends up getting help from one other person in line and he asks her if she'll meet him for a drink before the flight.
Lisa ends up going to meet up with the guy even though she wasn't going to. He tries to guess her drink order and almost gets it. They end up boarding and sitting right next to each other. Once the plane is in the air, he reveales to her that he needs her to do something or he's going to have people kill her father. He wants her to arrange for a special high profile guest to be relocated to a different room, so that he'll be easier to kill.
Lisa resists for a while and with the storm blowing them about, the phones on the plane go in and out.
Eventually, Lisa ends up having them relocate the guest, but she isn't about to give up, especially when she realizes that the guest she relocated will be visiting this time with his family. She doesn't want to see the wife and two children killed as well. She tries to leave clues, but he finds them before anyone can see them every time.
When the plane touches down, Lisa takes action to get away. She makes it all the way home and finds herself in an all new battle. Saving her father isn't the only thing she has to do, she has to save her guest and his family at her hotel as well.
whoa, cool.
2009-07-12 - What can you do on a plane when your stuck there.
I love how evil cillian murphy acts, he soo creepy, in a good way.
Tense Psychological Thriller
2009-04-23 - SOME SPOILERS INCLUDED.
In this taut suspense-thriller, Murphy plays a charming stranger that our protagonist, Lisa, meets on a Red Eye flight to Miami. Their chemistry is immediate and she finds herself drawn to the attractive guy with the intense blue eyes. The first part of the movie misleads the viewer into letting down their guard and joining in their flirtation.
But their meeting was not happenstance instead it's part of a larger plot involving a political assassination that Murphy's character "Jackson Rippner" (yes, even Jackson is in on the joke) has orchestrated as a "manager" of government overthrows and high profile assassinations.
What follows in the second half is an intense mind game/power struggle between Lisa and her tormentor, all on-board an airplane. This claustrophobic scene plays particularly well and both actors should be commended on their performances. They are so real that the instances of violence really shock. (particularly the knock-out scene)
The last part of the movie amps up the action and pushes our characters into a showdown. While at this point it becomes less realistic, it does offer some fun action including an explosion thrown in for good measure.
While I fully expected Murphy's suave, arrogant character to get the beat-down that he so deserved, I did find the shift from the ultra-controlled, condesending assassin to the less than effective killer to be a bit "off" but I was the only one in my family that noted it so it just must be me. (yeah, yeah, he was stabbed and shot, that will put anyone off their game)
Don't let the PG13 rating put you off.. it's tense. The violence isn't over-the-top gore but it is effective. The film's short running time keeps everything in motion. And I liked Rippner's ambiguous end. Perhaps they had a sequel in mind?
Also, just for fun note Cillian's character (Jackson) states that he never lies.. if that's true then check out the subtle way he side-steps Lisa's question when she asks him if he is a hitman...
FRIGHTPLAN...
2009-01-14 - Hotel manager Lisa (Rachel McAdams) is on the red eye flight home after attending her grandmother's funeral. She is seated next to a young man named Jackson (Cillian Murphy from 28 Days Later and Sunshine) whom she had met earlier in the terminal. The two get along famously, until Jackson reveals his secret. Lisa is now part of a plot involving political assassination and the life of her own father (Brian Cox from Manhunter and The Ring)! Surrounded by a plane-full of clueless passengers, Lisa must figure out a way to stop Jackson's plan and save several lives. RED EYE is horror director Wes Craven's shot at a straight-out thriller, and he comes through just fine. The tension mounts while Lisa and Jackson are in the air, and culminates in a wham-bam finalé on the ground! Well worth seeing and owning...
