Red Eye
Tags: comedy, suspenseful, cruelty, murder, mystery, cult, violence, good versus evil, claustrophobic, revenge

Plot synopsis:
After attending her grandmother's funeral in Dallas, Texas, Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams), who has a fear of flying, takes a red-eye flight to Miami, Florida.While in the check-in line she meets an older lady (Angela Paton) who is interested in Lisa's Dr. Phil book. She tells her she's a fan, so Lisa gives the woman her book saying she has already read it.Lisa also meets Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy), a man whom she initially finds charming. After their flight is delayed due to weather, Lisa meets with Jackson again in the bar and they talk to each other while having a drink. When boarding, Lisa is pleasantly surprised to find that Jackson is seated beside her. She's even more impressed when Rippner calms down a rude passenger (Loren Lester) who was giving a hard time to the airline attendant (Mary-Kathleen Gordon).After take off, Lisa is shocked when Jackson transitions into something she never expected, revealing to her that he is a terrorist operative working for a group who intends to assassinate the United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Charles Keefe (Jack Scalia) and his family. He tells Lisa that she is instrumental in their plans because of her job as Acting Manager at the Lux Atlantic Hotel where the Keefe family will be staying. If she refuses to cooperate, Rippner will deploy a hit man to kill her father, Joe (Brian Cox) at his home in Miami.Lisa's task is to use the in-flight phone to call her assistant at the hotel and tell her to change the room that the Keefe's will be staying in, even though they always stay in the same room and any room they use has to be pre-cleared by the Secret Service. Lisa tries to convince Rippner that she doesn't have that authority, but he knows better and orders her to make the call and order the hotel staff to change the reservation from the inner room 3825 to suite 4080, which faces the harbor.When Lisa first places a call to the hotel, answered by her co-worker, Cynthia (Jayma Mays), the line goes dead midway through the conversation, and Lisa tries (unsuccessfully) to fool Rippner into thinking she is ordering the room change as directed, but then Rippner notices a nearby passenger trying to make a call and looking with frustration at his phone. There's a message on the screen on the back of the phone which says "service temporarily unavailable." Rippner grabs the phone away from Lisa and confirms it's dead. He's not happy.Lisa attempts to find a way to keep both her father and Keefe safe. Her first attempt is when the older lady from the check-in line comes to talk to her about the Dr. Phil book (Rippner had been asked by the flight attendant to help with positioning some luggage in the overhead). The woman asks Lisa to write some things in the book. Lisa tries to write a warning in the book, but Rippner is ever vigilant and realizes what she was doing. When he returns to his seat, he head butts her unconscious and puts a pillow under her head to make it appear she is simply sleeping. He then manages to steal the book back from the older woman before she is able to see the message.Lisa tries again by going into the restroom and writing a warning on the mirror with hand soap, that there's a bomb where Rippner is sitting. As she opens the door to leave the restroom, Rippner is standing there. He sees the message on the mirror and pushes Lisa back into the restroom and shuts the door. He slams her around and chokes her, then wipes the message off. He warns her again not to gamble with her father's life. Rippner notices a scar above Lisa's breast and asks her about that, but she refuses to answer.A small girl who was waiting to use the restroom tells the flight attendant that two people were in the restroom. The flight attendant assumes the couple are in the process of becoming members of the Mile High Club, so she doesn't intervene, but the little girl is savvy enough to realize that things aren't that way between the man and woman in the restroom. Nevertheless, she remains quiet about it during the rest of the flight.When Lisa and Jackson return to their seats, Lisa makes the phone call to Cynthia, and Cynthia meets the Keefes and their Secret Service escorts in the lobby and informs them of the need to change the room due to a plumbing problem. When Keefe learns it was Lisa who ordered the change, he tells the Secret Service to go ahead and clear the new room.Lisa wants Rippner to call his hit man and order him to stand down, now that she'd done her part, but Rippner says he still needs her, as he can't let her and her father go until he gets a phone call confirming that Keefe has been successfully dealt with. When she expresses concern that the hit man might get impatient and act before being called off, Jackson reassures her that he'll only act on Jackson's orders, saying that "he's a good dog, who only responds to the sound of his master's voice." Lisa soon realizes that not only Keefe to be killed, but his family too, and she's even more distressed.The Secret Service do a thorough sweep of the new room and even contact the Coast Guard to go investigate a fishing boat sitting way out in the harbor. When the Coast Guard boards and inspects the boat, they call in that it's all clear. The hotel staff then move Keefe and his family into the new suite.As the plane is landing in Miami, Lisa confides in Rippner, telling him that the scar on her throat was from a knife held to her throat by a rapist two years ago. When Rippner observes that there was nothing she could do about it, she disagrees and tells him she swore that she would never let it happen again. She then jerks her right hand and arm up and around and stabs Rippner in the throat with an ink pen she stole earlier from a young male passenger.The pen punctures Rippner's windpipe and damages his vocal chords. Lisa climbs over him and as she goes by, she takes his phone and scrambles to make her way through the aisle and other passengers to the main exit door. A young male passenger who'd been falsely accused by his friend of taking his ink pen, wryly observes that now they know what happened to his pen.Lisa has to wait until the door is open, giving time for Rippner to gather himself, pull the pen from his throat, wrap a scarf around his neck, and start after her. Rippner is slowed a bit more when the little girl who'd been observing him during the flight shoves her little carryon bag out into the aisle, tripping him and knocking him down.The men on that fishing boat that had been cleared by the Coast Guard, are shown hauling in a fishing line. On the other end of the line is a large container which they load onboard and open, revealing the component parts to an FGM-148 Javelin man-portable fire-and-forget anti-tank missile. They begin assembling the weapon.Lisa flees the plane, removing her thin sweater and tossing it into the trash, as security had already been alerted. She narrowly escapes Rippner and airport security. Once outside, she steals an SUV from a driver who was greeting an arriving passenger.Lisa makes a call with Rippner's phone, noting that it has a low-battery warning, so she's worried about that. However, she is able to get through to Cynthia at the hotel, telling her what's going on, then ordering her to pull the fire alarm and make sure to get the Keefe's out of their suite immediately. Cynthia is freaking out, but she does exactly what Lisa told her to do.The Secret Service get the Secretary and his family out of the room just seconds before the Javelin missile is fired. It races across the sky and plows into the suite, exploding and destroying the room and everything in the immediate vicinity. Cynthia, the Keefes and the Secret Service agents all managed to escape the room seconds before. The men on the fishing boat toss their weapon overboard and take off.Lisa, still driving, tries to call her father, but the cell phone's battery dies just as he picks up the phone and says hello. She rushes to her father's house, arriving to find the hit man (Dane Farwell) standing just outside the front door. He hears Lisa approach and turns to face her, reaching inside his jacket. Lisa turns the SUV and floors the accelerator, jumping the curb and slamming into the hit man, driving him through the front door, killing him.Lisa finds her father inside. He is shocked not only by a vehicle slamming into his front door, but seeing a man lying on the entryway and then his daughter walking in. He tells Lisa that he has already called 911.Lisa calls the hotel to check on things there. Cynthia confirms the Keefes are ok. When Lisa turns around after talking with Cynthia, Rippner is standing there. He'd knocked out her father, Joe, who was lying on the kitchen floor. Lisa hurried to the kitchen to make sure her father was alive, then she turns her attention to Rippner. She's really angry now, telling him that he'd failed at his mission and assuring him that he's not about to defeat her in her own house.Over the course of the next few minutes, she has the upper hand, as she throws things, punches and kicks him as he chases her through the house. He eventually returns to the body of the hit man and grabs the 12" K-Bar knife the man was going to kill Joe with.Lisa manages to make another phone call to 911 as she sneaks around trying to figure out where Rippner had disappeared to. As she closes a bedroom door, intending to lock herself in, he is standing right there. They fight some more and she clubs him with a stout cane she'd found in the closet, knocking the knife away. He ends up throwing her down a flight of stairs. Lisa crawls down the last few steps, where she sees a gun lying next to the dead hit man. She grabs the gun and turns to threaten Jackson with it. He moves towards her anyway and she shoots him, wounding him. He kicks the gun out of her hand and grabs her by the hair. He's about to kill her when Joe appears and shouts, "hey!" As Rippner pauses and looks up, Joe shoots him in the chest.Lisa returns to the hotel where she greets and hugs a very frazzled Cynthia. Cynthia observes that she thought things went pretty well overall during Lisa's absence, other than the most recent event. The Homeland Secretary expresses his gratitude to Lisa and Cynthia before he's ushered off.An older man and woman, who'd been guests at the hotel that day, come up to Lisa and Cynthia, complaining about their terrible stay, with all the inconvenience and discomfort associated with the attempted assassination, wanting to know what Lisa was going to do about it. When Lisa asks them what they think should be done, they say first they wanted Cynthia fired. Lisa thinks for a moment, then suggests to the couple that they fill out a comment card. They are aghast at that, but then they are totally speechless when Lisa tells them that after they are done with that, to just go ahead and "shove it up your ass."The movie ends with Lisa taking Cynthia out for a drink; 'anything but a bay breeze,' the kind of drink Lisa had mentioned drinking, to Jackson.

Review: Particularly from a film-maker like Craven that has brought so many innovative ideas to the thriller and horror genre in the past and that now just lends himself to bringing home what could have been a good TV movie had it not been released theatrically.
A busy, fun little no brainer, "Red Eye" begins like a romcom, morphs into a suspense/action flick, and takes you on a simple-minded but entertaining girl power ride as Lisa races with the clock to save the day.
Probably worth the price of a DVD rental, "Red Eye" will play best with fans of rising star McAdams and those who no brain it to avoid it's many nagging plot holes.
The story is good but the dialog could have used some sprucing up."Red Eye" is a really fun film and people were applauding when the closing credits started rolling.
Wes Craven's psychological thriller "Red Eye" isn't something we haven't already seen, but the standard format actually generates into a tight, snappy and gripping experience.
Red Eye is not the kind of movie that's going to win the Palme D'or, but Wes Craven has never been that kind of director, anyway, and his branding is a good indication of what a film-goer can expect.The fact that Red Eye is a tight little, undemanding package at 94 minutes is part of its charm and an indication of Craven's craft in producing lightweight, but generally enjoyable, box office fare.
However, there are definite elements of Hitchcockian suspense, and echoes of Schumacher's Phone Booth, which ultimately is a more sophisticated (and pretentious) play on the same idea of emotional crisis being played out suppressed in public.For a film that focuses mainly on two people sitting in airline seats, it lives or dies on the characters and script.
Finally, after who knows how many bad movies later, he gives us a delicious, ruthless, gripping, chilling suspense thriller with Red Eye.Rachel McAdams once again delivers an enjoyable performance as she plays a hotel manager who has the unfortunate connection with an important political figure and regular at her hotel.
Then she meets Jackson Ripner (Cillian Murphy, Batman Beyond) at the airport, who she gets to know a little better after a delayed flight and a bay breeze.
And he also knows her father, who she will never see again if she fails to cooperate and meet Jackson's demands- to use her connections to set up her hotel regular for assassination.You're probably thinking this is nothing but your everyday thriller complete with predictability and chase scenes.
Instead you'll get the pleasure of seeing McAdams deliver another incredibly talented performance, Murphy look creepier by the minute, and Craven craft a classic traditional thriller.
On an overnight flight from Los Angeles to Miami, Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) meets a charming man who turns out to be a hired killer who demands her help killing a businessman or else her own father will die.Red Eye is a terrific thriller that keeps the audience on the edge of their seats.
In the end, Red Eye is an engaging thriller and it's one of the best movies of the summer.
New "IT" girl Rachel McAdams ("Wedding Crashers" and "The Notebook") dominates screen time in this nice little classic suspense thriller from famed horror film director Wes Craven ("Scream" movies and "A Nightmare on Elm Street").
I would have rather played ping pong for 2 hours.The whole idea is weak and seemed to me rushed, like craven was just dying to whack out a film as soon as he could, not caring what it was about.Cillian Murphy is rubbish in this, not at all scary, how can he be scary when he keeps getting beat up by girls!
It had plenty of tension, action and a very hateable bad guy (played VERY convincingly by Cillian Murphy - who by the way, had better be careful about not getting type-cast as "the bad guy" in all his movies, because he does a very GOOD psycho!).
Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy are perfect against one another and Wes Craven has done an excellent job in directing.
The film talks about two people(Rachel McAdams,Cillian Murphy) who meet one night very late in the airport,catching a Red-eye.The story is the worst plane ride you could ever take.The place on the airplane where everything is compressed but that really contributes to the sense of claustrophobic,creeping terror, it's this struggle ,all contained within the coach section of the plane.
This is the story of the worst person you could sit next to on a plane.The excitement is generated out of this compelling conversation between two individuals that start off innocent enough but then suddenly devolves.The psychological mind-play between these two characters and what it is to have to sit in one spot and be terrorized and basically held hostage,she and his father(Brian Cox) without letting anyone else know what's going on.Wes Craven said that he was attracted to this project ,first of all for the remarkably constructed script written by Carl Ellsworth.Thus the characters are complex,when you think you know what's gonna happen something else happens and the fascinating idea is that you never know who who you're going to sit next to on an airplane.The screenwriter does a character piece,and ,in a way ,maybe he creates a hybrid of the independent character film and Hollywood action blockbuster,thus we can have a character-driver piece,but also have suspense,thriller,action elements in it as well.The movie was filmed principally in Los Angeles.All of the airplane shot were on a set,but there was no way in hell one could shot this on a real airplane.Craven had an airplane that could take apart,it could pull sections off of the side and it could pull out panels and have a camera swoop down aisles and go up over people.Production design by Bruce Miller worked for Craven on many films,he creates splendidly the scenes that he needs to tell the story,the look of movie is just wanted to keep it as real as possible.He decided to go with the two-three seating pattern which is a 767 airplane and took pieces from many airplanes and put them together in this format with overhead baggage compartments,lighting,the seats and various pieces.We have a feeling you're in this capsule at 30.000 feet in the air .There's one shot where we see a tiny plane going through these huge clouds banks and you have the feeling they're in this tiny ship in the middle of nowhere.It's the old horror film thing of all these things happen in the middle of nowhere.
Cillian Murphy is creepy looking and effective as the bad guy "Jackson Rippner."Once the film kicks into gear as Murphy shows his evil intentions, the film switches from a yawner to a suspenseful action flick and stays that way until the end.
Then, they tack on a really stupid last few minutes with a very un-realistic middle-aged couple just to the end the film with a cheap laugh.Overall, a dumb but entertaining movie but at least a whole lot better than the year's other "airplane movie," the horrible "Flight Plan." Still, knowing the quality of horror work director Wes Craven has produced over the year, I was a bit disappointed..
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.
In a world of increasingly bloated Hollywood epics it's kind of nice to see a film that has an economical run time (a mere 85 minutes) and a tight story.The late Wes Craven is best known for straightforward horror films, this is a thriller, though it does get into more traditional Craven territory towards the end.
It's well made, maintains the tension throughout, but still has room for a joke or two.Rachel McAdams is engaging as the likable Lisa caught in a nightmare, and Cillian Murphy is effective as the soft spoken, cold eyed terrorist.Definitely worth checking out..
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.
wow, don't see why anyone would like this movie...i don't want to give much away because if i gave anything away there would be nothing to look forwards to...because this movie doesn't really have much of an ending...i guess if you go to see it purely to be entertained and u don't expect anything out of it it may be OK...but don't waist your money...NOT WORTH IT The only reason i honestly went to see this was because 2 girls talked me into it...now they say they ''owe me'' and that i was correct about this movie being terrible...this is really all i have to say except that the only other way i would possibly watch this movie again is that if someone were to pay me, and it would have to be at least 20 dollars...enough to pay for the first time i saw it and then a bit more to get me to watch it again...the only part that made the movie descent was the fact that the main girl is really attractive in this movie..this is the only good thing about it, but like i already said, don't waist ur time or money.
With a cast of the beautiful Rachel McAdams (Wedding Crashers, Mean Girls) and Cillian Murphy, (28 Days Later, Batman Begins) you would think you would have a great movie no matter how bad the story line was.
The movie begins with our two main characters meeting up in a airport ticket line, defending each other as a frustrated man yells at Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams).
Jackson Rippner (Cilian Murphy) kindly looks into Lisa Reisert eyes and says he needs her help, or her father (Brian Cox) will die a terrible death by a hit man in a white BMW outside of their home.
He does a decent job of entertaining the audience for just having a few places for the characters to interact in (Plane, Airport, etc.) Taken form his website http://wescraven.com/blog/ Wes explained how it was to shoot the movie, "we ended up shooting a car shot with Rachel, in pouring rain!
Wes Craven, a man who knows a thing, or two, about scaring the viewer, is at it again with his new film, "Red Eye", which proves to be a surprising late summer entry.
I tuned in at the part where Jackson and Lisa were seated together on the plane, right when he revealed to her his part in the plan to kill the Homeland Security guy, and that Lisa must cooperate for her father to live.Rachel McAdams was both attractive in appearance and sensational in performance.
Jackson has been hired by terrorists to send the world a message by assassinating him.(Comment) This is not a scary movie, even though the thrilling action and suspense that Wes Craven brings to the film will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Director Wes Craven, best known for his popular horror films like Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, has stretched his muscles into the suspense genre and has succeeded with a modest, effective gem.Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) is a hotel manager who is flying home from a funeral when she meets a charming stranger, Jackson Ripper (Cillian Murphy), who ends up threatening her on board the flight.
The claustrophobic first part of this movie is amazing, with a great performances of Rachel McAdams in the strong role of a heroine and the weird Cillian Murphy as a cold and cruel villain.
Unfortunately, Wes Craven in the second half, after the plot point with the landing of the plane, uses the usual clichés and flaws of thrillers and the film loses its strong initial impact.
There's no way out.Instead of a suspense thriller, we were treated to an hour and a half of ridiculous coincidences, contrived motivations and an airplane full of the most oblivious people ever to be congregated in one place.Any movie, especially of this nature, is going to have plot holes and events an audience must simply accept, but in Red Eye there seemed to be more holes and logistical issues than any sort of feasible plot.
Red Eye is a terrible, dreadful movie.The only bright note I'd say is that both Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams do a good job with the material that was given to them.
I figured since it was Wes Craven and at the end of the trailer Cillian Murphy looked liked the devil or something, I figured it was another hokey supernatural thriller.I WAS WRONG.
Their interaction carries the movie- it is a thriller built on their dialog, something you don't see much beyond indie films.Also of note: the secondary characters, both on the plane and the young lady who plays the desk clerk of the hotel (Jayma Mays) are all very good.
(54%) Wes Craven a film maker who only knows how to make either good movies (a nightmare in Elm street, the hills have eyes) or really quite terrible movies (the scream series.
Red Eye is an above average thriller with good performances by both Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy.
Director Wes Craven does an admirable job of giving this movie a claustrophobic feel and some suspense considering most of the film takes place in a plane.
Overall Red Eye was better than expected with suspense, some action, humor and exceptional performances by the Mcadams and especially Murphy who make the movie an entertaining thriller to watch..
My wife didn't want to see this movie, even though she loves Cillian Murphy, because she figured she wouldn't be able to watch anything by Wes Craven.
I've yet to catch up with some of Wes Craven's vintage horror films - most notably THE HILLS HAVE EYES (1977) - though I did get to stick it through the entire SCREAM trilogy (1996-2000; which started out well but inevitably degenerated) and, more recently, the wasted opportunity that was CURSED (2005).This new thriller is very low-key in comparison, with no typical shock moments or outbursts of gore; indeed, it's a more character-driven piece than usual which makes good use of its limited settings and is aided immeasurably by the believable performances of its two likable leads.
With movies like that under his belt, I had high expectations for this film, and for the most part, I was satisfied.Our movie begins as we meet Lisa Reisert (McAdams), a hard-working hotel manager who is constantly on the go.
Starring Rachael McAdams and Cillian Murphy, this is a very good thriller but could have been something mind-blowing.The plot focuses on Lisa (Rachael McAdams), a hotel manager, who's flight to Miami has been delayed.
The story is about a young woman called Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) who after recently having a hard time by the loss of her grandmother, is taking a plane home to meet up with her father.
Red Eye is a 2005 American thriller film directed by Wes Craven and starring Rachel McAdams as a hotel manager ensnared in an assassination plot by a terrorist (Cillian Murphy) while aboard a red-eye flight to Miami.
Lisa(Rachel McAdams) is on the Red Eye flight to visit her Dad(Brian Cox) however when she meets Ripner(Cillian Murphy), she realizes that this might be the longest flight of her life.Wes Craven certainly doesn't disappoint with this 85 minute thriller.
The movie starts off with the airport encounter where Lisa meets Ripnern and then they end up sitting next to each other on the plane; all is well until takeoff.The atmosphere quickly changes to an extremely intense one and the movie gets more interesting from that point on.The performances were solid, McAdams and Murphy did excellent jobs playing the "damsel in distress" and "villian" respectively.
Red Eye is a really good claustrophobic thriller set on a late-night flight  with all the essential ingredients  darkness, a rough flight and all the usual film stereotypes for this kind of film are present and correct  obnoxious passenger, old woman, sympathetic child etc and above all the requisite sinister villain, played to perfection by Cillian Murphy.McAdams plays Lisa, a hotel manager catching a late flight back when she gets talking during delays to Murphy's Jackson Ripnor.
Rachel McAdams is so damn likable (even as Regina the bitch in Mean Girls) you can't help but feel incredibly scared for her life when her character, the kind hearted Lisa Reisert, is terrorized on a plane by a hit-man.The story unfolds so fast you barely have time to blink before the unnerving mind game begins between Lisa and Jackson Rippner, who is played perfectly by Cillian Murphy.
In the movie, Rachel McAdams, a hotel manager, catches a red eye flight back home, where she meets Cillian Murphy, a charming stranger, in the airport, and they wind up sitting next to each other in the plane.
Whenever you watch a film directed by Wes Craven, you know you will be entertained right to the very end.
Cillian Murphy, the scary and horrifying actor who can chill your bones at his amazing acting being the bad character in this film, and his face can really widen your eyes.
Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams star in this action/thriller written and directed by the master of suspense, Wes Craven, himself.