Red Eye (2005)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 186
Fresh: 147 | Rotten: 39
With solid performances and tight direction from Wes Craven, Red Eye is a brisk, economic thriller.
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 4
With solid performances and tight direction from Wes Craven, Red Eye is a brisk, economic thriller.
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A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in offing a politician.
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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.
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.
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.
For Wes Craven, who I like a lot as a slasher director, he really goes into a different direction with this.
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.
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.
While not particularly original, Red Eye is immensely entertaining and a fine example of the classic suspense-thriller.
Works extremely well as a fast-paced adrenaline rush, but not so well as an allegory on today's government and security issues.
Quick but satisfying.
Entertaining thriller for teens and up; not for the younger set.
Hitchcock, of course, got lots of mileage out of just such absurd plots. But Wes Craven, whatever other strengths he has, isn't Hitchcock.
this mid-air thriller sees the director not so much soaring to the heavens as merely coasting along on auto-pilot.
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.
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.
A rousing thriller that takes advantage not of the vulnerability of a commercial airplane, but of its confined space
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.
Audience Reviews for Red Eye
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- Cynthia: You are so my hero.
- Lisa Reisert: Lets open the bar.
- Cynthia: Champagne?
- Lisa Reisert: Oh, anything but a Bay Breeze.
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- Lisa Reisert: Is it Jack for short?
- Jackson: No. I haven't gone by Jack since I was ten years old.
- Jackson: Last names Rippner.
- Lisa Reisert: Jack Rippner. Jack thee, ooohh.
- Jackson: There you go.
- Lisa Reisert: That wasn't very nice of your parents.
- Jackson: That's what I told them, before I killed them.
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- Lisa Reisert: That's actually my seat.
- Jackson: You're kidding.
- Lisa Reisert: Well, I don't know. That says 18G
- Jackson: You're not kidding.
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- Jackson: Sometimes bad things happen to good people.
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- Jackson: I'll fix it up!
- Lisa Reisert: Not in my house!
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- 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...
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