Red Eye (2005)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 85m
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox
Synopsis:
A Miami hotel manager on a leave of absence is accosted by a handsome stranger at the airport, but he turns out to have more than shared cocktails on his mind once they are airborne.
Review:
A brisk thriller, which shares that virtue with the forties B movie, but replaces the forties patter and retro charm with saturated colours and crude dialogue. The modern emphasis on outlandish violence also detracts from the overall impact, and after an intriguing first third the film settles down into one of those victim/antagonist battles of wits that grow more absurd as they grind on. The final third, which has a formerly traumatized heroine turn into a feisty, kick-ass harpie who can hold her own against a professional assassin, merely reminds us of the director's slasher antecedents.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 85m
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox
Synopsis:
A Miami hotel manager on a leave of absence is accosted by a handsome stranger at the airport, but he turns out to have more than shared cocktails on his mind once they are airborne.
Review:
A brisk thriller, which shares that virtue with the forties B movie, but replaces the forties patter and retro charm with saturated colours and crude dialogue. The modern emphasis on outlandish violence also detracts from the overall impact, and after an intriguing first third the film settles down into one of those victim/antagonist battles of wits that grow more absurd as they grind on. The final third, which has a formerly traumatized heroine turn into a feisty, kick-ass harpie who can hold her own against a professional assassin, merely reminds us of the director's slasher antecedents.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 85m
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox
Synopsis:
A Miami hotel manager on a leave of absence is accosted by a handsome stranger at the airport, but he turns out to have more than shared cocktails on his mind once they are airborne.
Review:
A brisk thriller, which shares that virtue with the forties B movie, but replaces the forties patter and retro charm with saturated colours and crude dialogue. The modern emphasis on outlandish violence also detracts from the overall impact, and after an intriguing first third the film settles down into one of those victim/antagonist battles of wits that grow more absurd as they grind on. The final third, which has a formerly traumatized heroine turn into a feisty, kick-ass harpie who can hold her own against a professional assassin, merely reminds us of the director's slasher antecedents.