Red Eye (2005)

All Critics (188) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (150) | Rotten (39) | DVD (24)

The psychological mind-games are played to the hilt, the pressurised cabin air increases the edge-of-the-seat tension and the 85-minute flight time is gratifyingly short.

June 3, 2006 Full Review

Nigel Floyd

Time Out

Top Critic

I'm not claiming masterpiece stature for Red Eye, just a solid professionalism in the acting, writing and direction that seems inextricably related to the modesty of its intentions.

September 7, 2005 Full Review

Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

The movie turns into a complicated duel that depends on precise observation of physical detail and moment-by-moment continuity so closely calibrated that it's impossible to find a wasted shot or an exaggerated emotion.

September 6, 2005

David Denby

New Yorker

Top Critic

For Wes Craven, who I like a lot as a slasher director, he really goes into a different direction with this.

August 29, 2005 Full Review

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

It took forever, but the best thriller of summer 2005 has finally arrived. The gripping, seat- clutching suspense in this baby will pin you to your seat.

August 27, 2005

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

After a summer of crashes, bangs, endless chase scenes and special effects that belittle the actors standing in front of them, what a pleasure to see characters in a thriller doing what people like themselves possibly could do.

August 26, 2005 Full Review

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

While not particularly original, Red Eye is immensely entertaining and a fine example of the classic suspense-thriller.

April 25, 2011 Full Review

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Works extremely well as a fast-paced adrenaline rush, but not so well as an allegory on today's government and security issues.

September 26, 2009 Full Review

Gabe Leibowitz

Film and Felt

Quick but satisfying.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

Garth Franklin

Dark Horizons

Entertaining thriller for teens and up; not for the younger set.

July 24, 2008 Full Review

Cynthia Fuchs

Common Sense Media

Hitchcock, of course, got lots of mileage out of just such absurd plots. But Wes Craven, whatever other strengths he has, isn't Hitchcock.

August 13, 2007 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

this mid-air thriller sees the director not so much soaring to the heavens as merely coasting along on auto-pilot.

August 6, 2007 Full Review

Anton Bitel

Eye for Film

Terrific casting can work wonders for a movie. If the stars are good enough, logic gaps as deep as the Marianas Trench disappear in the performers' glow.

February 18, 2007 Full Review | Comment (1)

Dan Lybarger

Kansas City Star

Fans of the thriller genre will probably be scared and entertained, but seeing Red Eye is more like watching a good television show than a good movie.

November 1, 2006

Stefan Ulstein

Christianity Today

A rousing thriller that takes advantage not of the vulnerability of a commercial airplane, but of its confined space

July 21, 2006 Full Review

Douglas Pratt

Movie City News

This is a screenplay so unbelievably bad that not even two very fine young actors and a director known for his knack for suspense can salvage it.

January 7, 2006 Full Review

David Cornelius

eFilmCritic.com

• 1. Cynthia: You are so my hero.
  2. Lisa Reisert: Lets open the bar.
  3. Cynthia: Champagne?
  4. Lisa Reisert: Oh, anything but a Bay Breeze.
  – Submitted by Rawballs B (17 days ago)
• 1. Lisa Reisert: Is it Jack for short?
  2. Jackson: No. I haven't gone by Jack since I was ten years old.
  3. Jackson: Last names Rippner.
  4. Lisa Reisert: Jack Rippner. Jack thee, ooohh.
  5. Jackson: There you go.
  6. Lisa Reisert: That wasn't very nice of your parents.
  7. Jackson: That's what I told them, before I killed them.
  – Submitted by Ah-lick L (57 days ago)
• 1. Lisa Reisert: That's actually my seat.
  2. Jackson: You're kidding.
  3. Lisa Reisert: Well, I don't know. That says 18G
  4. Jackson: You're not kidding.
  – Submitted by Ah-lick L (57 days ago)
• 1. Jackson: Sometimes bad things happen to good people.
  – Submitted by Ah-lick L (57 days ago)
• 1. Jackson: I'll fix it up!
  2. Lisa Reisert: Not in my house!
  – Submitted by Rawballs B (2 months ago)
• 1. Jackson: He doesn't move. Unless I say so. He's a good dog, he responds only to his master's voice. It'll all be over soon. The Keefes will be history, your dad will be safe, we'll both go back...
  – Submitted by Dexter M (10 months ago)

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