RED EYE. DreamWorks, 2005. Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox, Jayma Mays. Director: Wes Craven.

   This is first and foremost a Wes Craven movie. It’s beautifully photographed, the shots are well taken, the music is well-chosen and perfectly timed, and he’ll almost have you believing the story, too.

   Which has to do with a gang of terrorists forcing a young female hotel manager to make sure their target in is the right room at the right time. I hate to tell you more about the story than I knew when I started watching the movie, but suffice it to say that she is on an overnight flight back to town, and their means of coercion has to do with her father. Watch the clip below:

         

   Cillian Murphy is the coercive factor, charming at first when the two meet “accidentally” at the airport, but turning into the evil twin brother of Illya Kuryakin, once they are on the plane, in the air, and he in the seat next to her.

   She’s trapped in the air with him. Once he tells her what he needs to have her do, what can she do? Enough to fill 60 minutes of flight time, more or less, he the cat, she the mouse. But she’s resourceful to just barely keep the PG rating for this movie.

   Once off the plane, the action is nearly non-stop, leaving the viewer little time to wonder about small little details, not until the movie’s over. If you had as much fun as I did along the way, you may not care. Otherwise all bets are off.