Red Eye
Director: Wes Craven
Year Released: 2005
Rating: 2.0
Quick, dirty and mostly painless little thriller too focused on immediate excitement instead of long-term resonance - it's like Phone Booth but without the cleverness. I personally don't interpret it was a pro-Homeland Security statement whatsoever - if anything, it's a critique of the vulnerability of the system, leaving the head of the organization - and his family - defenseless and ultimately protected by a hotel manager (Rachel McAdams) and her nervous-wreck temp (the message being that the citizens have to keep the eye out for all suspicious types, even androgynous Cillian Murphy). It is certainly Wes Craven's most compelling picture in well over a decade if hardly the most intelligently structured and played out - for a psychology major, his films tend to float in the shallow end of the cinematic pool (close to the toddlers and senior citizens).
