Red Eye
Minusing a few moments and a really lame climax, Red Eye has captured the last of Wes Craven cleverly utilizing high-risk tension in a small-scale setting. The film is compressed to the aisles and squished-in seats of a commercial flight. Craven makes perfect use of Cillian Murphy as a physically controlling terrorist interrogating a teary-eyed, but crafty, Rachel McAdams (in the seat next to him). The film plays on the isolated prison-like environment of the plane and while Craven probably relies a little too much on “lightness” in his story, there’s still a potent substratum here for space-limited terror and thrills.
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