Movieo
Poster for Red Eye

Red Eye

Fear takes flight.

2005 · 1h 25m · PG-13 Mystery, Thriller
Directed by Wes Craven

Seen it?

Overview

An overnight flight to Miami quickly becomes a battle for survival when Lisa realizes her seatmate plans to use her as part of a chilling assassination plot against the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. If she refuses to cooperate, her own father will be killed. As the miles tick by, she's in a race against time to find a way to warn the potential victims before it's too late.

Director and cast

Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

Top critics, in their words

All reviews
80%
Tomatometer
Fresh

The psychological mind-games are played to the hilt, the pressurised cabin air increases the edge-of-the-seat tension and the 85-minute flight time is gratifyingly short.

Nigel Floyd, Time Out
Fresh

If constructing a thriller could be likened to building a house, then Wes Craven's Red Eye is a perfect piece of architecture: It's clean-lined and soundly structured, without a foot of wasted space or any materials left unused.

Scott Tobias, AV Club
Fresh

I'm not claiming masterpiece stature for Red Eye, just a solid professionalism in the acting, writing and direction that seems inextricably related to the modesty of its intentions.

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh

The movie turns into a complicated duel that depends on precise observation of physical detail and moment-by-moment continuity so closely calibrated that it's impossible to find a wasted shot or an exaggerated emotion.

David Denby, New Yorker
Fresh

For Wes Craven, who I like a lot as a slasher director, he really goes into a different direction with this.

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

Comments

Talk about the film with other members

More films