Movie- Red Eye

Wes Craven is known for his horror movies but he took on a different type of thriller when he directed 2005's Red Eye.

Red Eye is more of a thriller type movie, but it has feelings of the horror genre, feelings of claustrophobia, of being trapped in a world beyond your understanding or control. And to make it more challenging, the movie is set almost entirely on a jet.

The storyline follows Lisa, played fantastically by Rachel McAdams, a high-end hotel manager, who is trying to get back home to Florida after going to the funeral of her grandmother in Texas. There is a huge storm and delays, and she has a drink with a handsome(ish) (Cillian Murphy) man in the lounge. He is getting on the same flight as her, it turns out, and even more, his seat is right next to hers. Coincidence...yeah right!

All this runs pretty true to form, but Craven's directing and McAdams acting, carry this film beyond the typical. The handsome young man is an assassin, and he wants her help to move a high profile government visitor, who is staying at her hotel, to another suite, where he can be more easily killed. To ensure her cooperation, he has another killer waiting outside her father's house.

Craven takes some time to show little things, expressions, angles and shots that make the tension stronger. And McAdams acts her ass off. She runs the gamut of emotions, each one believable in her character. Murphy too is good, he has a cold menace about him, with those ice blue eyes, the make you think he really could be sociopathic.

Red Eye will not win Oscars, but it was a thriller that filled the bill. The feelings of entrapment while in the air, in those cramped seats, unable to do anything, barely able to move is overwhelming. And the director is the one who does this. The climax of the film is fun, as McAdams tries to save the day once they land, it is a white knuckle ride to the finish. Good stuff!