Edge Magazine readers may be confused by this film. It is not about Ste Curran. Just thought I'd clear that up. Nor is it about people getting their photos back from the developers and discovering that the flash in their camera has caused people to have red eyes. Nope. Definitely not about either of them.

What it is about is some bloke wanting to kill some political guy and getting a woman in charge of a hotel to assist him by keeping her dad hostage. Whilst they are on a plane. The plane is the overnight service known as the Red Eye, hence the film being called that. Clever of them, eh?

Right down to the nitty gritty, whatever that is. It's not really very good. It is one of the most cliche ridden unexciting productions I've ever seen. Not as much so as The Island perhaps but still, even that had one or two ideas. It is a better film than The Island but not by much. Despite being a thriller, it manages to be very unthrilling and unexciting. The tension is just somehow not there. Cillian Murphy just doesn't really seem to have the gravitas to be that menacing somehow. Rachel McAdams tries but has nothing to work with. The dialogue is poor and pacing rubbish. There's plenty of plot holes too such as Rachel getting beaten up by Cillian in the toilet and no one really seeming to care. Running through and escaping from an airport whilst being pursued by police. Crashing a car into a house and no one in the neighbourhood seems to notice. Many many more too.

What's more is it seems Wes Craven forgot he wasn't making another Scream movie and sets the last 15 minutes or so in a house where Cillian is chasing Rachel whilst she hits him and throws things at him.

What it all comes down to is not that I have one hand in my pocket and the other one is giving a high five. It's that we've seen this sort of thing far too many times before and it doesn't excite any more.

4/10 - £2.00 (if you must see it at the cinema)

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