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OFCS Rating: 70% Fresh |
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| "this mid-air thriller sees the director not so much soaring to the heavens as merely coasting along on auto-pilot." |
| Eye for Film |
| Anton Bitel |
| "With their riveting performances in 'Red Eye,' Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams are on the way to A-list movie stardom." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Betty Jo Tucker |
B+ | "This is what we call summer entertainment, and who would have thought that a mid-August barnburner would emerge as one of the best films of the summer?" |
| FromTheBalcony |
| Bill Clark |
8/10 | "Smart, funny, and keenly aware – even celebrating – of its own wild contrivances, it’s the stuff of popcorn-movie bliss." |
| Freeze Dried Movies |
| Brian Juergens |
A | "A rock-em, sock-em, deliriously fantastic wedge of pop thriller, Red Eye cleanses Craven’s past sins away, at least for the time being." |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
3/5 | "Just when you thought that Wes Craven was washed-up, back up he comes like one of the killers in his films, teeth bared and meat cleaver grasped firmly in hand." |
| Film Threat |
| Chris Barsanti |
D | "If you've seen its theatrical trailer then you've seen "Red Eye."" |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
| "A mostly smart scary movie, Red Eye effectively updates the slasher flick to address current fears." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
2.5/4 | "Terrific casting can work wonders for a movie. If the stars are good enough, logic gaps as deep as the Marianas Trench disappear in the performers' glow." |
| Kansas City Star |
| Dan Lybarger |
1/5 | "This is a screenplay so unbelievably bad that not even two very fine young actors and a director known for his knack for suspense can salvage it." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
A | "At last – the perfect summer film. Wes Craven delivers a quick, tense high. You gotta go!" |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
3/4 | "Smart performances (by up-and-comers Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy) highlight Wes Craven's overnight fright." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| David N. Butterworth |
3/4 | "...tense, exciting, and thoroughly entertaining..." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
| " Craven serves up a number of delightful twists and distractions to keep things consistently entertaining ... a snappy, diverting little popcorn-muncher." |
| Portland Tribune |
| Dawn Taylor |
C+ | "Runs into problems over logic as it battles plot line turbulence." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
3/4 | "A relentless heaping of masterfully created full-throttle suspense in a thriller that is as time and story-efficient as it is good, old-fashioned fun." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
3/4 | "Red Eye is a model of swiftness and efficiency, shrouded in a veil of secrecy." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Ed Gonzalez |
C+ | "There isn't a bit of the plot that is not predictable, but there's always a giddy thrill in seeing someone pop out from behind something where you had not expected him to be." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
3/4 | "Most rollercoasters last less than two minutes and you have to wait an hour to ride them. For that I consider Red Eye one helluva bargain." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
B+ | "Sometimes you have to be grateful for simple pleasures." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
3/4 | "Craven serves up a giddy and taut psychological thriller that will have audiences proudly reaching for their assigned barf bags." |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
B- | "A genuine white-knuckle flight...though it hits some narrative potholes and logical turbulence, it takes you where Craven wants you to go." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
2/5 | "A terrorist tale with a far-fetched storyline and finale." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
2.5/4 | "There are enough thrills during the final third to give Red Eye viewers a few of Craven's patented jolts near the end. But it requires forbearance for both a silly script and uneven pacing to get to that point." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
'3/4' | "Establishes a mood and manages to keep it edgy and claustrophobic throughout." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
7/10 | "Almost too happy to be your standard, paranoid, woman-in-peril, audience participation thriller." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
| "The remarkable thing about Red Eye — what sets it apart from the typical action film it could so easily have been — is how pointedly ... feminist is its point of view." |
| Pajiba |
| Jeremy C. Fox |
4/5 | "Craven is back on fine form with Red Eye - easily one of the finest suspense thrillers of the year." |
| FilmFocus |
| Joe Utichi |
7/10 | "Damn entertaining and – even better – at just 85 minutes, it’s refreshingly economical." |
| Planet Sick-Boy |
| Jon Popick |
2/5 | "Its parts are greater than its sum; small pleasures not commensurate with the quality of the film as a whole." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
3/5 | "It's good, clean fun, although a bit unbelievable at times." |
| 7M Pictures |
| Kevin Carr |
D | "Current 'it' girl Rachel McAdams and Irish heartthrob Cillian Murphy had best hope this one passes beneath the radar at supersonic speed." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
| "May very well be the most entertaining piece of cinematic garbage you're likely to see this year" |
| Monsters At Play |
| Lawrence P. Raffel |
B | "Red Eye is a wind-up machine of elegant simplicity, an increasingly uncommon breed among today's bloated genre films." |
| Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema |
| Mark Pfeiffer |
high +1 out of -4..+4 | "The problem is that
this film has nothing particularly new and original
to make it stand out from the thrillers like, for
example, Larry Cohen writes." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
| "[T]horoughly enthralling and completely rip-rousing..." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3.5/5 | "This film ... reminds us that [Craven]'s one of the real masters of horror." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
3/4 | "Red Eye is a lean, efficient thriller...with an ingenious premise and a snappy pace." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B | "Craven uses the claustrophobic confines of the airplane well, keeping things moving to create visual interest but always making us aware of how vulnerable Lisa feels." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
B+ | "That all-too-rare Hollywood creation: a tightly wound, intelligent, and gimmick-free suspense film." |
| Lessons of Darkness |
| Nick Schager |
2/5 | "Poderia ser um bom filme produzido para a tevê. Como esforço para Cinema, no entanto, é apenas mediano." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
3.5/5 | "For a movie getting unceremoniously released during the dog days of the summer movie season, Red Eye deserves a look." |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
4/5 | "There's a crackling B-movie vibe to this gripping little thriller." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
C- | "Once Red Eye leaves the confines of the plane cabin and attempts to open up into a more standard thriller, it loses steam...and intrigue" |
| TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
| Rick Curnutte |
2/5 | "Hitchcock, of course, got lots of mileage out of just such absurd plots. But Wes Craven, whatever other strengths he has, isn't Hitchcock." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
B | "A slick suspense thriller with no real surprises, but it is so well-crafted that it soars above most recent entries in this over-worked genre." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
D+ | "[Wes Craven] should have stayed with what he knows best." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
B- | "The setup flies, the tension builds, and screenwriter Carl Ellsworth cooks a taut summer page-turner of a thriller with mild political overtones." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Sean O'Connell |
| "Red Eye doesn't just stick to the basics -- it reminds us why they still matter." |
| Salon.com |
| Stephanie Zacharek |
8/10 | "Wes Craven takes off with taut, tense thriller - buckle up for a turbulent flight!" |
| Modamag.com |
| Susan Granger |
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OFCS Rating: 70% Fresh |
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