Leave it to director Wes Craven... Red Eye is a nail biting, edge of your seat experience, and he does it all in under 90 minutes.
Red Eye (2005)
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Reviews Counted:176
Fresh:138
Rotten:38
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: With solid performances and tight direction from Wes Craven, Red Eye is a brisk, economic thriller.
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Thriller
Synopsis: 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... 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. "Red Eye" is directed by Wes Craven and produced by Chris Bender and Marianne Maddalena. The executive producers are Bonnie Curtis, Jim Lemley, JC Spink and Mason Novick. The screenplay was written by Carl Ellsworth from a story by Ellsworth and Dan Foos. --© Dreamworks [More]
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy
Director: Wes Craven
Director: Wes Craven
Screenwriter: Carl Ellsworth
Story: Dan Foos
Producer: Chris Bender, Marianne Maddalena, Bonnie Curtis
Studio: DreamWorks Distribution LLC
Reviews for Red Eye
It falls apart near the end, but does so in such a fun way that it’s still every bit as exciting and entertaining.
Wes Craven weaves a masterful staging, right up until Lisa and Jackson get off of the plane.
For one tense, nail-biting half hour, it's up there with Craven's best.
The film’s contained setting and solid performances drag it over the top and make it a flight to book and enjoy if not necessarily forever remember.
Begins as a tense, well-written and brilliantly directed psychological thriller.
Almost too happy to be your standard, paranoid, woman-in-peril, audience participation thriller.
A rock-em, sock-em, deliriously fantastic wedge of pop thriller, Red Eye cleanses Craven’s past sins away, at least for the time being.
Most rollercoasters last less than two minutes and you have to wait an hour to ride them. For that I consider Red Eye one helluva bargain.
McAdams does a wonderful job pulling all of this together to be equal parts scared, vulnerable and tough enough to kick some booty.
A single hour episode of the TV show '24' contains more of the kind of suspense Craven was trying for.
Wes Craven banishes the memory of Cursed to bring us a lean thriller that's just right for armrest-gripping.
That all-too-rare Hollywood creation: a tightly wound, intelligent, and gimmick-free suspense film.
There isn't a bit of the plot that is not predictable, but there's always a giddy thrill in seeing someone pop out from behind something where you had not expected him to be.
A relentless heaping of masterfully created full-throttle suspense in a thriller that is as time and story-efficient as it is good, old-fashioned fun.
A movie that, like its heroine, is lithe, limber and quick-thinking. Like a triple latte from the airport Starbucks, Red Eye will keep you awake, jittery and perched on the edge of your seat for pretty much the entire flight.
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