Post by Alexsis on Sept 13, 2005 11:50:51 GMT -5
Cert: 12A
Stars: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox, Laura Johnson, Max Kasch, Jayma Mays
Director: Wes Craven
Five-Second Summary: A woman is blackmailed into assisting in an assassination while on a flight
Full Review
Like Speed, or last year’s Cellular, Red Eye seeks to build a tense thriller around a simple idea and a restrictive location. Here we have a woman, Lisa (Rachel McAdams), who finds herself sitting beside a charming stranger, Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy), on a flight home from her mother’s funeral.
Lisa manages a big, fancy hotel in Miami where a high-profile, political VIP is about to visit. Jackson, it turns out, is part of a team of top-class assassins who have been given the job of killing the said VIP.
His part of the mission is to get Lisa to call her hotel from the plane and change the room the VIP will be staying in to one with a sea view. This is so Jackson’s mates can fire a missile at him from a nearby boat. If Lisa doesn’t cooperate, or lets anyone know what is happening, her nice old dad (Brian Cox) will get a rather unpleasant visit from another of Jackson’s associates.
Obviously, this premise is a little far fetched, but Wes Craven does a decent job of turning it into a gripping thriller. The claustrophobic environment of the plane works in his favour and it also helps that Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy prove themselves worthy of their Next Big Thing tags. Rachel McAdams is just very likeable and believable and Cillian Murphy is as good at being smooth and charming as he is at being cold blooded and ruthless.
Me and Sarah went to see this yesterday and I have to say, I loved it! It's amazing, and the best part has to be where she stabs him in the vocal cord with a pen!
I recommend this movie
Stars: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox, Laura Johnson, Max Kasch, Jayma Mays
Director: Wes Craven
Five-Second Summary: A woman is blackmailed into assisting in an assassination while on a flight
Full Review
Like Speed, or last year’s Cellular, Red Eye seeks to build a tense thriller around a simple idea and a restrictive location. Here we have a woman, Lisa (Rachel McAdams), who finds herself sitting beside a charming stranger, Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy), on a flight home from her mother’s funeral.
Lisa manages a big, fancy hotel in Miami where a high-profile, political VIP is about to visit. Jackson, it turns out, is part of a team of top-class assassins who have been given the job of killing the said VIP.
His part of the mission is to get Lisa to call her hotel from the plane and change the room the VIP will be staying in to one with a sea view. This is so Jackson’s mates can fire a missile at him from a nearby boat. If Lisa doesn’t cooperate, or lets anyone know what is happening, her nice old dad (Brian Cox) will get a rather unpleasant visit from another of Jackson’s associates.
Obviously, this premise is a little far fetched, but Wes Craven does a decent job of turning it into a gripping thriller. The claustrophobic environment of the plane works in his favour and it also helps that Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy prove themselves worthy of their Next Big Thing tags. Rachel McAdams is just very likeable and believable and Cillian Murphy is as good at being smooth and charming as he is at being cold blooded and ruthless.
Me and Sarah went to see this yesterday and I have to say, I loved it! It's amazing, and the best part has to be where she stabs him in the vocal cord with a pen!
I recommend this movie