Red Eye

Released: 2005
Thriller
Director: Wes Craven
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Rachel McAdams, Brian Cox
Running Time: 85 minutes
Rated: PG-13

The breakdown: A woman's father is threatened with death if she doesn't help a crazy man sitting next to her on the flight home to assassinate a politician.

McAdams is a hotel manager on a flight home when a strange man (Murphy) sitting next to her threatens to kill her father if she doesn't help him with an assassination attempt on a politician staying in her hotel.  Sounds far fetched, but it was directed by Wes Craven so that explains a lot.  Murphy's performance is flawless as usual, but the movie was just okay for me.

Murphy "accidentally" keeps running into McAdams at the airport before the flight, and then they end up being seat mates on the flight from Dallas to Miami on the over night flight.  At first he seems to just be friendly, but soon after they are in the air, he makes it apparent that he's been following her for weeks and needs her help in moving the politician from one room to another for an assassination attempt on his life.

The action scenes were good, the acting was good, just for some reason this movie turned out just good instead of great.

2 1/2 out of 5 for an excellent bad guy in Cillian Murphy.