When I started finding my groove and a revision

Yeah, about this point I found the format for reviewing that I wanted to do.  It would be a thing I tried to follow for the next few years to come.  This review is as you can see for Red Eye and I have one little change to make.  While I still give it *** out of **** I will say that I find it even more enjoyable now and a better movie...just not enough to give it a star or half a star boost.  Okay thats it enjoy

Monday, August 29, 2005 

Red Eye Reveiw

Truley I am a movie nut.  So on friday I was going to go to a concert.  Unfortunatley for me I got the wrong day and missed it.  Really got to look a bullitens a lot more carefully...Anyway, becaue of my mistake and being hyped up about doing something on my mundain and boring night off I decided to go see a movie.  Being a Wes Craven Fan I went to see Red Eye.  Thus now I must review it.
The synopsis is Rachel McAdams is Lisa, a Hotel Manager catching a flight home from her grandmothers funeral.  When she meets the charming Jack Rippner (Jack the Ripper reference inserted here).  Jack is one of those guys you cannot help but like.  He stands up for a poor flight attendent how is trying to calm down a man complaining about the Delay in the flight.  He buy's Rachel a Bay Breeze at the bar.  He even helps a both Rachel and another lady with there bags.  He is a just a nice guy.  Charming even.  So was Tom Cruise's Character Vinncent in Collateral.  And just like Vinncent, Jack is a sociopath.  This is made obviouse when he tells Rachel what he does.  Assinations and Esponage.  Rachel realizes he's telling the truth but thinks he's still one of the good guys.  CIA, military, you know that kind.  He's not and proves it when he terrorizes Rachel by telling her that if she does not move the new Homeland Security to a differnt room so that he may more easily have him kill.  If she doesn't do this, her father will be killed.  What follows is an edge of your seat
thriller that has nothing but great excitment. 

Now those of us who have watched some of Wes Cravens more recent movies (cough) CURSED, know that he has not been up to the Standards from Last House on The Left and The first Nightmare on Elm Street.  This movie which shy's away from the horror and moves toward the relm of thriller is exactly what he needed.  The directing in it is spectacular.  The flow of the pace and the leave with very few slow points and keeps you attention all the way through.

The Screenwriting, though hokey sometimes, is excelent.  McAdams is a heroine that you can root for and Cilliam Murphy (playing Jack Rippner) is a villlian that you can't help but both like and hate.  They're performances are well worth noting and look for them to go further in they're career. 

There are some down points.  parts of the ending just didn't feel right.  Though few and far between there are slow points.  And there is a backstory to Lisa that I wish they had gone into a little bit more.  In fact, a lot more.  This however would not really phase the normal, movie goer.

All and all this is a very good movie.  With great Directing and Acting and a decent script this is worth spending the 6.50 for.  I highly reccomend that you go see this at least once in theatres.  I give it *** out of ****.  Go see it.  It is gooooooooooood.