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Highly Overrated But Still Good

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Bad. Do not watch.Pathetic acting, pathetic and predictable plot. Terrible ending.

A B-movie Wes Craven thriller is the type of movie that was frequent around the mid-2000's and Red Eye is basically the quintessential version of that. It's far from perfect but an entertaining thriller with some slasher/horror moments towards the end of the film rounded out one tense film. Starring the always creepy but brilliant Cillian Murphy and one of Hollywood's sweetheart's Rachel McAdams, Red Eye is the kind of tightly strung thrillers that you see randomly appear on Netflix and wonder why you've never heard of it, only it's directed by a horror legend and stars two award caliber actors. It's a great premise as Murphy and McAdams sit next to each other on the plane and one knows more about the other than they choose to let on. Threats, murder plots, and plenty of shady phone calls ensue as the 2005 film does its best to thrill and entertain for 80 minutes.6.9/10

PROS: Real fear. This film takes a very far fetched idea from reality and makes me have fear like it could actually happen. This is what really drives home the build up of tension. Terror of the mind, is psychological horror. Terror of the body, is torture horror. Terror of the unknown, is sci-fi horror. And terror of realism, is slasher/tense horrors like this one. Its's all about drawing in the watcher into this world of panic that can actually be sustained. This movie does a great job at delivering this from beginning to end, and most importantly the end. Each scene is quite alluring in the fact that you want to know more, and when you get to the ending the director does an excellent job at making "all hell break loose" when trying to develop an ending that is memorable, interesting, helpful, and congruent to the plot.CONS: The one thing poor about this film is the acting. Granted the acting wasn't bad, at all, but the acting was most certainly not full of extraordinary actors. Everyone felt very flat, or average.www.chorror.com

Originally reviewed: 18/02/2017 This is actually a new, refreshing thriller; were my thoughts after the first two acts; but like a lot of thrillers; the third act is a complete waste. Rachael McAdam's (Lisa) is very good in the picture, along with Cillian Murphy (Jackson) as the clever antagonist. The supporting cast are also respectable here; this includes Brian Cox (Lisa's father), Jayma Mays (Cynthia), and Suzie Plakson (Flight attendant). The picture starts of well despite an unintentionally laughable line where McAdams bumps into an older lady and the lady says "Don't sweat it. I'm wearing my combat boots"; but other than that it was brisk and extremely well done. There's plenty of interesting exchanges of dialogue between Lisa and Jackson; including a scene where they grab a drink at the bar before they board the plane; and upon boarding there's more interesting conversations as the story builds up. Also impressive is the decent amount of characterisation we get before the plot starts to unfold.When the plot does unfold, and he tells her the situation, it gets out of hand; as he headbutts her in the face later on for trying to deceive him; but what I don't believe is that nobody noticed. There's also ill-advised humour where the plane is taking off and one of the other passenger's jokes out loud "We're not going to make it", this is hardly an appropriate joke on board a plane. Other unexplained things included a book that Jackson steals from the old lady which has a message scribbled in earlier on from Lisa; but like I said before nobody notices this either which is again strange; that leads me to my last problem before the third act, how does McAdams's character grab the pen from the other side of the plane; we must assume she just grabbed it on the way to the bathroom. Despite all this I was still enjoying it, but that was until the plane lands.All of the ingenuity and thrills go out the window as soon as they leave the plane; it's one clichéd chase sequence with an explosion thrown in for good measure; for which I will also call out; why use a rocket launcher for an assassination? Any other weapon would have been more subtle. Then I asked myself why they are trying to kill this guy and his family; but I got no answers. This brings me to the final act, where McAdam's drives into a thug who just happens to be in front of her house and during that crash, no one bothers to call the police or emergency services? Surely someone was around; and what happens later is your usual cliché showdown between the kidnapped and the kidnapper; where the bad guy obviously ends up dying; give me a break; Craven's film was strong for the first two acts but it's climax was nothing more than a run of the mill thriller with clichés, plot holes and a predictable ending; Red Eye was almost worth recommending, but like I said, almost.