Red Eye (2005)
An overnight flight to Miami quickly becomes a battle for survival when Lisa realizes her seatmate plans to use her as part of a chilling assassination plot against the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. If she refuses to cooperate, her own father will be killed. As the miles tick by, she's in a race against time to find a way to warn the potential victims before it's too late.
- Wes Craven
- Sheila Waldron
- Carl Ellsworth
- Dan Foos
- Carl Ellsworth
Rating: 6.4/10 by 2172 users
Alternative Title:
红眼 - CN
长途吓机 - CN
赤眼玄机 - CN
Нічний політ - UA
Ночной рейс - RU
Night Flight - KR
Don't Airport - US
Vol sous haute pression - CA
Red Eye : Sous haute pression - FR
パニック・フライト：2005 - JP
Vuelo nocturno - ES
Nakts reiss - LV
Zbor de noapte - RO
Red Eye - Nachtflug in den Tod - DE
Red Eye - Die Angst fliegt mit... - DE
Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Pусский
Runtime: 01 hour 25 minutes
Budget: $26,000,000
Revenue: $57,891,803
Plot Keyword: hotel, airplane, airport, miami, florida, hitman, threat of death, flight, fear, political assassination, held captive, captive, surveillance, threat, hotel manager, operative, airplane trip, airport lounge, phone call, turbulence, domestic terrorism, homeland security, life or death, airplane setting, father daughter relationship, threatened woman, action thriller, assassination plot, delayed flight, air travel, excited, threat to family
"Lisa" (Rachel McAdams) is chatting away to her fellow passenger on an aircraft when suddenly things all start to take a bit of a menacing turn. It turns out that "Rippner" (Cillian Murphy) needs her to contact the hotel in which she works and get them to move a visiting - and important - family to a new suite. Should she not acquiesce to this perfectly reasonable request, then he has a pal on the ground who is all set to bump off her father "Joe" (Brian Cox). For the first half an hour, this is quite an effective thriller - the dynamic between the two, with her hemmed into her increasingly claustrophobic airline seat, helps build quite a decent sense of peril. Sadly, though, as she begins to fight back the scenario begins to lose it's potency. His complete control of the situation begins to become more and more compromised as serendipity takes just bit too much of an interest in the story for my liking. That's not to say that "Lisa" need be a shrinking violet in the face of her psychological oppressor, it's just that the fightback is all just a bit far-fetched, before a rather messy and unsatisfying ending that you just know is going to happen. Murphy can be quite an edgy character actor - he is an attractive man with a hint of something underhand (I think he'd make a good "Bond" villain) and McAdams is confident and competent - it's just the originality of the story that peters out and becomes predictably mediocre.
