Movie Review
Red Eye
Grade: B
Issue date: 9/30/05 Section: The Edge
From the director who brought you "Nightmare On Elm Street," "Scream" and "Cursed," brings you another horror movie to make you tremble. Wes Craven attempts to indulge himself in the thriller category, with "Red Eye."
Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) is an executive manager of a big-time hotel that knows how to take care of her guests even though she's five states away from her business. While waiting to get on her delayed flight from Dallas to Miami, she meets a nice gentleman by the name of Jackson Rippner (Cilliam Murphy). He buys her a drink at the bar and gets to know her better. When it is time to board the flight, the two say goodbye and wish each other a good flight. Well luck behold, Jackson is sitting next to Lisa on the flight. Is this a love story in the making?
The story then shifts to Jackson revealing to Lisa why he is on board and his plans of what to do to her. Jackson is holding her father (Brian Cox) as collateral if she doesn't comply with his demands of moving the deputy of Homeland Security to a room that he wants. What ensues is the struggle of Lisa trying to get a hold of the situation and trying to find a way to save her father's life by not risking another.
"Red Eye" is predictable and cheesy at some points. There's a little girl who is flying on the plane by herself comes to the Lisa's aid; you'll have to see it for yourself. But you can easily forgive the film because you feel for Lisa and the situation she is placed in. McAdams is having a hot streak with her career, appearing in "Mean Girls," "The Notebook" and "Wedding Crashers." Her co-star, Murphy, is having a great summer as well portraying a creepy bad guy in "Batman Begins" as the Scarecrow. Thanks to their performances, they saved a movie that resembles another predictable thriller, "Phone Booth."
- William Roman
Edge staff
Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) is an executive manager of a big-time hotel that knows how to take care of her guests even though she's five states away from her business. While waiting to get on her delayed flight from Dallas to Miami, she meets a nice gentleman by the name of Jackson Rippner (Cilliam Murphy). He buys her a drink at the bar and gets to know her better. When it is time to board the flight, the two say goodbye and wish each other a good flight. Well luck behold, Jackson is sitting next to Lisa on the flight. Is this a love story in the making?
The story then shifts to Jackson revealing to Lisa why he is on board and his plans of what to do to her. Jackson is holding her father (Brian Cox) as collateral if she doesn't comply with his demands of moving the deputy of Homeland Security to a room that he wants. What ensues is the struggle of Lisa trying to get a hold of the situation and trying to find a way to save her father's life by not risking another.
"Red Eye" is predictable and cheesy at some points. There's a little girl who is flying on the plane by herself comes to the Lisa's aid; you'll have to see it for yourself. But you can easily forgive the film because you feel for Lisa and the situation she is placed in. McAdams is having a hot streak with her career, appearing in "Mean Girls," "The Notebook" and "Wedding Crashers." Her co-star, Murphy, is having a great summer as well portraying a creepy bad guy in "Batman Begins" as the Scarecrow. Thanks to their performances, they saved a movie that resembles another predictable thriller, "Phone Booth."
- William Roman
Edge staff