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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Dreamworks Video
Salesrank: 9757
Released: January 10, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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 (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
good thriller 
2008-06-25 - While it's not the edge of your seat thriller, I really enjoy how it all comes together at the end.
IT'S JUST ME, BUT:
2008-06-01 - GOOD THRILLER ON A RED EYE FLIGHT, USING A DAUGHTER TO TRY AND SAVE HER FATHER. JM
Suspenseful thriller marred by weak opening 15 min.
2008-05-10 - You're basically on the edge of your seat once the villain reveals himself so, but I considered stopping the DVD to watch something else up to that point. I thought it was going to be a bad movie with a creepy guy and that's about it, but it turned out quite better. It really looks like it's going to be a B-movie when early in film, there are 2 guys loading a large, heavy crate into a pickup truck: they don't get it in quite enough, and when the tailgate shuts it jolts the crate, as if it was styrofoam and not a heavy crate full of fish and ice. Then for awhile there's nothing very interesting, just a guy who you already know is going to be the bad guy acting nice and flirting with the girl. But like I said, it suddenly becomes an interesting movie with a reasonably complex plot. Rachel McAdams does a good job with her role, and she is pleasant to look at. Brian Cox has a smaller role as her father; he's been in many films including Braveheart, Rob Roy and The Bourne Identity. This is a movie worth checking out.
not good 
2008-03-27 - i didn't find this movie so much scary or suspenceful as disturbing. you know that sick feeling you get when a character is raped? it is like that for an hour of the movie. the plot is pretty weak as well.
GREAT MOVIE... 
2007-12-16 - Really enjoyed this movie. Rachel Mcadams totally kicks, well you know, in this movie. I'm a huge fan of hers and she did a superb job in this intense drama. Highly recommend it to anyone!
