Red eye - 2005

This movie was surprisingly good. Who would have guessed, the little small talk at the beginning threatened to lead to the usual boring movie, but it wasn’t! As soon as they board the plane the fun begins, so to speak. Nice thriller, enjoyable watch. 

The plot: hotel manager Lisa (Rachel McAdams) goes to the airport to go back home and she meets Jack (Cillian Murphy) and they start talking, and it seems a friendly thing, guy-meets-girl and that kind of stuff. When they finally board the plane the real plot starts. She asks him what he does in life and he says something appalling. I don’t remember the exact words, but it clearly had the word ‘assassination’ in it, which is not what she expected. She thinks it a joke but he soon clears things up for her: he has a hitman outside her father’s home ready to kill him at his order, unless she does what he asks of her. She must make a phone call, an easy thing with atrocious consequences. She must order to change rooms for Keefe’s stay (a politician played by Jack Scalia). Both he and his family will be killed if she makes that call, but her dad will be if she doesn’t. Difficult situation. She tries to find a way to alert people of the situation numerous times, but every time she’s caught and stopped by him. After the landing she pushes a pen into his throat but he doesn’t die or bleed, he simply has trouble talking, but my ignorance in the medical field is great so I don’t know how believable this is ( anyway, in some films the heroes get stabbed and shot and beaten and thrown all over and still manage to climb and fight and run at speed, so..)

She runs away, he runs after her, but she gets away. She has his phone so she calls the hotel to tell Cynthia to warn the Keefes and the security men and she does, and the men act quickly and everyone is saved when the whole room is blown up. This was very much appreciated, every security man gets out alive :-)

After that the phone goes dead so she drives to her father’s home and sees the hitman right outside the door. He shoots at her but she kills him by driving him over with the car she stole. 

Once in the house she checks that everyone’s safe at the hotel. Her dad called 911 so it might seem like everything’s good and over, but it’s not. Jack shows up at her house and tries to kill her. She knows the place better and puts up a fight. It was a lovely scene, well made, when she was waiting for him with a bat but he didn’t show. For a moment it was actually funny  :lol: then you go back to the thrill and the fight. Of course she wins, with a little help from her father, who finally regained conscience. They kill the guy and it’s all over. She goes to the hotel, hugs Cynthia, hears Keefe’s thanks, than has to bear a couple of clients always complaining, even asking her to fire good, brave Cynthia, but obviously she sides with her :-)

One little thing: when he also got hurt in the leg but kept pushing on, for a scene he was like a caricature :-/

Nice movie, actors all ok, every one of them. Loved Cynthia and the little girl on the plane. 

McAdams and Murphy were good.