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Wes Craven directed this thriller about a young hotel supervisor (Rachel McAdams) returning home to Miami from her grandmother's fineral in Texas. Prior to boarding her flight she encounters and has a drink with Cillian Murphy, a young man who turns out to be part of a plot to asassinate the Deputy of Homeland Security and his family. On the plane Murphy tells McAdams that her father is being held by an associate and will be killed unless she calls her assistant at the hotel and has the Deputy and his family's room changed to one which will make the killing easier. McAdams tries a number of ways to warn the airliner's crew and when the plane lands she successfully escapes after disbling Murphy, who gives chase. The two leads have excellent chenmistry (of the negative type, of course) and both are convincing actors. This one worked for me in the theater and again last night in my home theater on DVD. The sound is great, with rich deep bass tones and events.
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I also think it was better than Flight Plan (and it didn't hurt that Rachel is MUCH easier on the eyes).
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Who's aggitat'in my dots?
Rico,
Why did you have to give up a plot, instead of just simply writing a review. I don't think it's fair to your fellow viewers who hadn't had a chance to it yet.
I have reread what I wrote and I totally agree with you. I apologize to all and will keep this lesson in mind when writing about current or relatively current films. Thank you for pointing this out.
Liked this one a lot.
It is so much better than "Flight Plan", which has a somewhat similar plot.
Hmm. Guess I'll have to disagree with you on this one. While I would not recommend either, Red Eye seemed too contrived to me. And much too predictable. The scene in which McAdams is driving along, and using her cell phone to call her father, and guess what, the cell phone's battery is low, and the call does not connect - presumably, because the battery is low, because, well, that is what the screen showed. Apparently, that cell phone, like a runner heading for the finish line, reached deep into its cell phone heart and found something extra, and found the power for her to make the call. The cell phone dying is a plot device, predictable. But then so is the phone regenerating itself. Although McAdams is developing a decent body of work, under the radar of most.Flightplan, while itself somewhat contrived, at least has the cojones to take place almost entirely on a plane, which I think forces the filmmakers to be a little more creative, which forced our heroine to be more creative. While we know she is going to ultimately walk off the plane with her daughter, the journey was more unpredictable to me, whereas in Red Eye, I knew daddy would be saved, but I also knew what was going to happen each step of the way. And seeing different parts of the plane that we do not see often was cool.
Don't get me wrong, I liked "Flight P{lan". It's just that I thought "red Eye" was more cleverly written. As for the cell 'phone, heven't you had a battery low situation which improved as you moved into a different zone? I have.
Usually when my battery goes dead, it goes dead. I guess I am tired of seeing cell phone batteries either die, suffer from a loss of signal, or get dropped just when the subject needs the phone for such an emergency. My cell phone seems to behave much better than those I see in movies. Perhaps a new crisis is called for?
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