Red Eye (Widescreen Edition)
by Wes Craven
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Actor: Brian Cox, Cillian Murphy, Laura Johnson, Max Kasch, Rachel McAdamsDirector: Wes Craven
Brand: Paramount
Producer: Bonnie Curtis
Producer: Chris Bender
Producer: J.C. Spink
Producer: Jim Lemley
Producer: Marianne Maddalena
Writer: Carl Ellsworth
Writer: Dan Foos
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Russian (Original Language); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
Published: 2006-01-01
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-10
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Movie Reviews of Red Eye (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: The sexiest bad guy in the history of cinema...peachy!
Summary: 5 Stars
A movie about a cold-blooded terrorist named "Jack Rippner" played by an actor named Cillian (pronounced KILL-ian). How perfect is that?
This is a movie about a victim who fights back. Like her attacker two years earlier, her assailant holds a knife to her throat only this time it's a metaphorical weapon that keeps her in check. And no matter what she does she will remain scarred for life. Or will she? Her previous attack occurred in a setting where presumably there were people around who should have been able to help her but didn't. Nor do they here.
First the bad.
The plot is thin and Craven is not Hitchcock.
The assassination plot is too complicated; the writers should have watched Scarface and learned how a nuisance and his family can be taken out with far less effort.
McAdams is terrorized and abused for 3 solid hours and the only person on the plane who seems to notice that anything is wrong is an 11-year-old child.
I usually enjoy Wes Craven's movies, but his film-making style has a tendency to patronize the viewer. In the pursuit of thrills, he seems to only ask "would the audience like it?" and not "would the audience buy it?" The lithe and delicate-looking McAdams possesses Rambo-like strength and fighting ability, impaling her adversary's body with blunt objects and firing a vase at him with the force of a meteorite. Are Bob and Marianne Taylor ---holes? Yes. Would any respectable employee tell them to "shove it"? No. I don't know why it was necessary for Cynthia to take the elevator all the way to the top floor to warn the Keefes; wouldn't a phone call from the Front Desk have saved time and been safer for Cynthia? Why does Keefe trust Reisert with his life and how does Reisert know what kind of a person he is?
Cliché elements and dialogue. At times the acting and screenplay appear mechanical and scripted. This does not happen with the two main characters, however.
Now the good.
The casting of the two leads and their acting. Both Murphy and McAdams are brilliant in their roles. Whatever problems the plot may suffer from on the ground don't really matter because this movie is about what goes on between two people in the air.
Can you kidnap someone on an airplane? Ten years ago some people might have thought it ridiculous to make a movie about a group of terrorists who hijack a couple of airplanes and fly them into high-rise buildings, but they wouldn't think it ridiculous today. In any case, this movie was not about kidnapping in the usual sense. It was about threat and coercion which can happen just about anywhere. Rippner didn't get on board with a box cutter, only a stolen wallet and for the purpose of persuading the heroin to make a phone call. He was holding her hostage psychologically; he told her if she told the flight attendant her father would die. So she was forced to spend the flight trying to deliver messages surreptitiously and it never worked. Truth is stranger than fiction and there are situations that make headlines around the world every day that you couldn't make up. "Man coerces woman in plane in murder plot; woman escapes"? I don't have a problem with it. Plausible or not, this is a very effective thriller. Not a second of screen-time is wasted and the suspense never lets up.
For her role as victim, McAdams completely sells it. And Murphy seems to understand well the mind of the sociopath. Anyone who has ever known one knows not only how they are able to rationalize their evil deeds but the strange way they seem to interpret situations and events, always through the lens of their own inflated ego and self-serving agenda. Jackson quotes Dr. Phil to Lisa as she regains consciousness, lectures her about honesty and the importance of getting the job done to keep customers happy. The senseless makes sense in his dark mind.
Unintended comedy in a movie is often a bad thing, but you've got to love it here. A flashy, high-profile terrorist winds up chasing a woman around her house with a lady's scarf wrapped around his neck and angrily pulling the heel of a woman's shoe out of his leg. McAdams' character mocks and emasculates him in the process which only serves to fuel his rage. Movies in which abused women fight back have been popular since the 80s. But not since Farah Fawcett shoved a can of bug spray into the face of a would-be rapist in Extremities have I found it so satisfying to see a scoundrel get what's coming to him.
One gets the feeling that Rippner's frustration and rage is as much about wanting Lisa and not being able to have her as it is about the possibility of his life going to s---. No wonder Cillian Murphy fans are checking the internet daily to find out of Red Eye 2 is in the works yet. There is even a petition for it somewhere on the internet. The villain isn't the only one dealing with inner conflict. In my opinion, men who abuse women are cowards. So what is it about Rippner that makes him so appealing? It can't just be his good looks. If any prequel or sequel is ever made, I will be the first one in line outside the theater the day it opens. But Jackson-and-Lisa fanfiction readers who envision them running off into the sunset together should realize that this villain is a VERY bad man and the script writers have big hurdles to get over if these two are ever to appear on screen together again. Want to know what Rippner does for a living? He already told you. Want to know how his parents died? He already told you that, too. And, remember, Jackson Rippner "never lies."
Summary of Red Eye (Widescreen Edition)
Fear takes flight at 30,000 feet in this non-stop action thriller! An overnight flight to Miami quickly becomes a battle for survival when Lisa (Rachel McAdams) realizes her seatmate (Cillian Murphy) plans to use her as part of a chilling assassination plot. As the miles tick by, she's in a race against time to warn the potential victims before it's too late. Get ready for the non-stop, adrenaline-pumping thrill ride that Peter Travers of Rolling Stone claims "will pin you to your seat."Similar DVD Movies
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