Movie review - "Red Eye" (2005) **

Unpretentious B film which feels like it should have more ideally been an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, but has the advantage in a strong pair of leads in Rachel McAdams and Cilliam Murphy. McAdams is very pretty and sensible as the damsel in distress, Murphy an ideal creepy villain. When this is on the plane it works pretty well - you go with the baddies having contacts with an airline but not a hotel - but when it hits the ground it is less strong (as is the case with thrillers set on airplanes eg Passenger 57). Surely she would go to the police? They can delay getting the baddies causing her to escape, but its something that needed to be dealt with. Also at the end they forget the terrorist stuff so its just a baddy chasing McAdams around a house trying to kill her a la an 80s slasher film. (They could have made the finale a bit better by having say the assassin's target go vi st McAdams' house to thank her,that would have been logical) The film is almost stolen by the actor who plays McAdams' ditzy work mate.