The last thing hotel manager Lisa Reisert expected on the red eye home from her grandmother's funeral was to be held hostage 30,000 feet in the air by the charismatic Jack Rippner. Her occupation is pivotal to Jack's plan to off the Secretary of Homeland Security. She must comply or her father will be taken out. Upon landing, Lisa escapes her captor, thwarts the assassination attempt, saves her father and gets continued use of her high school field hockey stick.
Horror mastermind Wes Craven, who brought us A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream (1996) soars to new heights with the aerodynamic thriller Red Eye. Along with a bag of peanuts, the claustrophobic film serves top notch acting by Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy and breezes by with a running time rivaling Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998). Critically praised, it achieved a decent box office return, though not quite as high as Flightplan, the other 2005 thriller in the sky. Yet both films make flying Spirit Airlines seem like a vacation.
Red Eye was filmed in Los Angeles, CA and Miami Beach, FL
Address: 100 South Pointe Drive, Miami Beach, FL
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