Directed by Wes Craven
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy,
Brian Cox, Jayma Mays

Review by Rada Djurica

Red Eye is an unusual thriller. In it, a supernatural creature chasing a beautiful girl turns out to be a human being with very bad intentions, on a suspense-filled trip. Is this Wes Craven?

Hotel employee Lisa Riesert (Rachel McAdams) is trying to fly home to Florida before the hotel falls apart due to computer screw ups. There's also dad (Brian Cox) whose recent divorce from Lisa's mother after 32 years of marriage leaves him with plenty of time to follow his daughter’s life via her cell phone.

At the airport she meets the handsome, confident, easy-going Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy) accepting his invitation for a drink. He's also catching the red-eye. Jackson, turns out to be a professional killer, and his current target is Homeland Security Director Charles, and he forces Lisa's cooperation in a planned attack by threatening her father.

Cillian Murphy as a killer???? God knows what Craven wanted to make, ending up in rather predictable end.

The rather inventive claustrophobia on the airplane descends into laughably implausible outdoor chase sequences, as the story devolves into Craven's same old dreary cat-and-mouse. Despite that, he produces a slick, efficient and unpretentious little thriller.