Prey For Eyes - Red Chord (The)

Flying the Red Eye

Advantages: Brilliant performances
Disadvantages: A little short

When Lisa Reisert boards the red eye flight back to Miami after going to her grans funeral, she is sat beside handsome stranger Jackson Rippner who she previously met in the airport bar. Starting off as a friendly banter between the two, the flight soons descends into a flight of terror for Lisa as he reveals that he is part of a plot to assassinate an important politician who is staying with his family at the hotel she manages in. Revealing that if she doesn't change the politician's room to make the assassination possible, his people will have her father killed, she has to choose between saving her father and saving the politician and his family. Lisa tries to find a way to save both, using her ingenuity, but the mad man always seems one step ahead of her. Wes Craven is responsible for some of the best horror films of his time ...

bilbob20 05.12.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Red Eye (DVD)

Glad Eye turned Red Eye

Advantages: Competently shot, acted adn scripted
Disadvantages: A couple of minor effects niggles and too much volume on the soundtrack, but nothing major

Lisa is having a bad day. On the way home from her grandmother's funeral, her flight is seriously delayed. But things seem to be looking up as she continually bumps into a charming man at the airport terminal. Except Jackson is more than he seems; and under the veneer of charm and respectability lurks a dangerous man. As it turns out, his meeting with Lisa has been carefully engineered and she is soon embroiled in an assassination plot and her father's life hangs in the balance. Horror maestro Wes Craven is no stranger to building sweaty-palmed tension and with "Red Eye" he makes an effective return to the thriller genre. Thankfully Craven has stepped back from his self-referential ways and plays the whole movie straight. It's a very lean film in many respects; keeping the number of main characters and locations to a minimum ...

afy9mab 21.09.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Red Eye DVD

I Am Taking The Red Eye Flight Again!

Advantages: Gripping, Intellegent, Well Acted and Directed, Subtle
Disadvantages: Some Unintentional Giggles

Lisa has just come back from her Grandma's funeral and is having a pretty bad day - the flights are delayed, her father is constantly worried about her and she is stuck reading a Doctor Phil book. However when she meets Jackson Rippner her day perks up abit - he is charming and handsome and helps her pass the time. However, when they board the plane they part ways, until she sees that they are sitting together that is. At first he is good humoured and she begins to enjoy his company, but then he turns - he has her father hostage and will kill him unless she uses her managerial powers to switch the presidents room at the hotel she works at. How can she choose between her father and the president? And will she be able to escape this psychopath alive? Red Eye is a nifty little thriller that's almost Hitchcockian in execution, unbearably ...

JayHall1991 05.09.2006 · Read full review
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