PROS: Real fear. This film takes a very far fetched idea from reality and makes me have fear like it could actually happen. This is what really drives home the build up of tension. Terror of the mind, is psychological horror. Terror of the body, is torture horror. Terror of the unknown, is sci-fi horror. And terror of realism, is slasher/tense horrors like this one. Its's all about drawing in the watcher into this world of panic that can actually be sustained. This movie does a great job at delivering this from beginning to end, and most importantly the end. Each scene is quite alluring in the fact that you want to know more, and when you get to the ending the director does an excellent job at making "all hell break loose" when trying to develop an ending that is memorable, interesting, helpful, and congruent to the plot.CONS: The one thing poor about this film is the acting. Granted the acting wasn't bad, at all, but the acting was most certainly not full of extraordinary actors. Everyone felt very flat, or average.www.chorror.com

I've known Wes Craven through his iconic films such as Scream and A Nightmare on Elm Street. Red Eye for me came as a surprise. Although shallow, the film had me at the edge of my seat. The last few moments of the movie were thrilling. It was a breath of fresh air for Craven to direct a film like Red Eye. I also like the movie set inside an airplane, at the airport, and in the hotel - I come from the hospitality sector and this film is somewhat a good vibe to me seeing those places.Cillian Murphy's acting is great and intimidating. He's mysterious and manipulative. On the other hand, Rachel McAdams is also okay but I think she needs more practice when it comes to thrillers because she's known for comedies and chick-flicks. Overall, the movie is terrific.

The courteous creep Jack Rippner (Cillian Murph) manipulates the seat arrangements in a plane during a Red Eye flight so he can sit next to cute hotel manager Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) and blackmail her into sparing the life of her dad in exchange for the deaths of the under secretary of Homeland security and his family who happen to stay in the hotel she works for. It is that kind of thriller directed by horror expert Wes Craven who is well past his prime nowadays. So where you hope something unexpected to happen you get the usual aggravating nonsensical tale of a lone woman against creepy guy. Reality and logic require suspension and the gods of ultimate coincidence need to be invoked to keep the tale on track. During the cat and mouse game between Lisa and Jack it even gets to physical blows, but of course, as per script, nobody notices anything. Not even the violent banging against the walls of the toilet in an airliner triggers questions. The low point is reached two thirds into the movie. Lisa escapes the clutches of the scary guy to run through the airport dodging security and police, while trying to phone her dad and her hotel at the same time. Why she doesn't go to the first security guard or police officer she sees is baffling considering that she has been attempting to warn them the whole time. Even more unbelievable is that the hotel assistant she gets a hold of doesn't even bother to call the room where the undersecretary is to warn him of impending attack, but instead decides to take the elevator all the way up and deliver the warning in person. What cheap way to create suspense. More unbelievable scenes follow, mostly at her dads house. The police delays from showing up and the neighborhood doesn't bat an eye when Lisa runs over a bad guy with a stolen car and smashes it frontally into her dads house. In the end Lisa, after fighting Jack tooth and nail is saved from the creep by her dad. Hey, she is a woman after all. To sum up.There are some unintentional funny moments, a few funny stupid people and a cast that makes the best of a failing script bled dry of originality. If you happen to be a fan of Wes Craven don't go and see this movie: you'll see his image notched. If you have something better to do you might consider skipping it also. It isn't totally bad, it is just implausible and run of the mill.

A tidy little piece of entertainment, Wes Craven's Red Eye tells the story of hotel manager Rachel McAdams being used by a group of terrorists--headed by charming sociopath Cillian Murphy--to assassinate the Secretary of Homeland Security. The thing that makes Red Eye work is that, even though you've seen the Hitchcockian nobody getting caught up in big, nasty things many times before, Craven keeps the pace so fast and the time so short (under 90 minutes), that you don't have time to ponder absurdities and slickeries and plot-holeries. Red Eye beats its contemporary, Flight Plan, by doing it better. The only false note is the whiney couple at the end who apparently didn't notice all the Feds and the cops and the VIPs and the smoke milling about before they pitch a hissy at McAdams for a ruined experience at the swanky hotel. If that's my whole gripe list, I need a drink from the airport bar.