Advantages: Brilliant performances Disadvantages: A little short
When Lisa Reisert boards the red eye flight back to Miami after going to her grans funeral, she is sat beside handsome stranger Jackson Rippner who she previously met in the airport bar. Starting off as a friendly banter between the two, the flight soons descends into a flight of terror for Lisa as he reveals that he is part of a plot to assassinate an important politician who is staying with his family at the hotel she manages in. Revealing that ... ...Much like the recent Flightplan, Red Eye's action predominately takes place on a flight. This lends an extra intensity to the film, both characters resigned to their seats for the first hour of the film, they cant go anywhere. She is effectively held hostage by him. Wes Craven manages to combine great performances with a tight script and using his tiny spaces to create an atmosphere of claustrophobia and doom within the air craft. There are elements ...
bilbob20 05.12.2006
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Advantages: Doesn't Require Much Thought Disadvantages: The Plot
Synopsis
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A hotel worker who can't do enough to help her guests is travelling back home to Miami due to her grandmother being taken into hospital. She befriends a man travelling alone and end up sitting next to him on the plane. Shortly after take off he revels that he is not who she thinks he is and that if she does not do what he says he will have her father killed. He has her father's wallet so she knows he means business.
He wants her ... ...party's room number changed at short notice. The reason why is not clear. She just want them to leave her dad alone.
Special Features
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As with most DVD's there is the obligatory director's commentary, like the film this one is fairly ordinary really. There is a making of featuring a lot of the crew and cast. Wes Craven is looking old now.
There is a feature with Wes Craven, "A New Kind Of Horror" explaining why he has decided to do ...
lilmsnaughty1979 24.10.2006
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Advantages: Fast moving film. Disadvantages: None.
...the edge of my seat during most of the movie. It's been a while since I heard an audience cheer and clap, and get excited in a theater. If your looking for thrills, action and a GOOD plot, RED EYE delivers it. So get the dvd today. ...
dee2206 13.01.2008
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From director Wes Craven (the Scream franchise) comes Red Eye, a suspense thriller at ... more
30,000 feet.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.Moments af...
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