Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

vengeance20 Just got round to watching this today after buying the DVD second hand from Cex a few years back, the concept & name Wes Craven (RIP) caught my eye. So I bought this film despite it being a thriller & not a horror. Though never got round to watching despite it being on my DVD shelf.Well after getting round to watching, I can say this is a pretty decent epic thriller of a film! It's got a unique concept. It's fast paced, get's to the point & doesn't make any balls about it, it's also a short film too 1hr 13mins (73mins. This is what makes it great along with the edge of your seat tension & suspense!Although for a 12+ it lacked gore & hard language it was still a great thriller with a great story-line! I recommend you watch!8/10

jimbo-53-186511 The first thing that struck me at the end of this film was why the writers felt the need to have so much exposition at the start? Given the fact that for the most part it's a rather tightly-plotted thriller I didn't understand why the film couldn't have started with Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams meeting on the plane? Enough of the plot is covered when they are on the plane making their earlier scenes seem almost redundant. Anyway now that that's out of the way let's take a look at the rest of my issues with this film...Firstly, the narrative is muddled and vague; we learn that Cillian Murphy's character has kidnapped Rachel McAdams father as leverage to get her to arrange for a Homeland official to placed in a pre-arranged hotel room so that his cronies can assassinate him. This is fine, but why exactly are they killing him? What do they want? These things are never made clear and sadly sloppiness likes this is merely a sign of things to come...Secondly, Cillian Murphy arranges for his assistant to keep an eye on McAdams father and informs her that he will get his assistant to kill her father if she fails to comply with his demands... Later McAdams stabs Murphy in the neck on the plane and escapes from him, but yet Murphy seems to make no attempt to inform his colleague that she's escaped and that she'll be on her way to rescue her father??? I understand that his vocal chords were damaged after the attack, but he could still speak and could have still called or texted his associate to warn him that McAdams was on her way... I also didn't understand why, after going to all the trouble of stealing her father's documents that they didn't just kidnap him anyway (as opposed to just sitting outside his house).Thirdly, I'm also not entirely convinced that you can orchestrate a kidnapping and assassination plot from inside an aircraft without anyone overhearing or getting suspicious...Fourthly, I also didn't understand what was the significance of moving the Homeland security official from one room to another when Murphy's cronies were assassinating him by firing a missile at him. Why did it have to be that room? Why couldn't they aim the missile at the original room he was staying in? On a slightly more minor note, I also noticed at one point in the film that a member of the cabin crew announced that "the seat-belt sign is off so you can get up and stretch your legs now" - even though people were up and about walking around the plane before the cabin crew official made this announcement.Things really get silly in the final act where we're treated to the usual 'pick-a-boo' villain appearing out of nowhere and from everywhere. We're also treated to an ingenious scene where Rachel McAdams kindly shouts 'Hey' to Cillian Murphy before attempting to hit him with a large vase which he promptly blocks as he was given sufficient warning by his attacker. Why announce to your attacker that you're there before hitting them??? Beats me, but then again I gave up trying to make sense of this film...On a slightly more positive note some of the scenes on the plane aren't bad and Craven clearly tries his best to create tension here, but he's held back by rather limited material and although appropriately tense at times many of the scenes on the aeroplane soon become repetitive and a little tedious.Whilst it never falls into the realms of being unwatchable Red Eye nevertheless is a film that insults your intelligence at almost every turn. To think that this utter mess was directed by the same man that brought us the superb Nightmare On Elm Street. The mind boggles....

NDbportmanfan I typically do not enjoy watching intense action movies as they are always set in these unrealistic situations but this movie is an exception. Lisa is a hotel manager that has to return home to attend a funeral and on her return flight she is sitting next to a hired hand whose goal is to assassinate the head of Homeland Security.Lisa is not suspicious in the slightest because the two had such a great conversation at the bar right before the plane took off.As far as story goes, I thought it was really solid as all of the character's motives were clear and made sense to the overall plot. I didn't find any glaring clichés that would make you roll your eyes, but instead an edge of your seat movie that makes you wonder if everything is going to turn out okay. Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy were just great in this movie, plain and simple which was crucial in the films success as the story is centered around their constant interactions. There is not much more I can say about it Murphy was just so intimidating and sweet when he had to be.I highly recommend giving this film a try.

Artless_Dodger Our heroine (Rachel McAdams) is kidnapped whilst on a flight and forced to assist our baddie (Cillian Murphy) in his dastardly plot. Two decent lead performances are poorly served by an unbelievable story but somehow manage to make this thriller almost watchable.Wes Craven forsakes his usual genre but applies his thrill a minute approach to this psychological thriller. It works to some extent but an implausible story simply becomes more and more ludicrous. By the time we reach the finale we could almost be on Elm Street.Cillian Murphy does well initially, making his character suitably unnerving, but there's a limit as to how much he can do with his role. Rachel McAdams as feisty Lisa Reisert is vulnerable yet resourceful, and proves yet again that she is worth much better material than she's offered.Worth a watch if you really have nothing else worthwhile to do. Otherwise, give it a miss.