REVIEW: RED EYE
Why will America win the war on terror? Well, according to Wes Craven's new film Red Eye, America will win because their trained assassins can't beat the steely determination of a 5-foot-4 field-hockey-playing All-American girl who does all the right things. Thanks to its malnourished script, Red Eye scores most of its points by serving the audience repeated scenes of the demure and winsome Rachel McAdams (Mean Girls, The Notebook) treating Cillian Murphy (Intermission, Batman Begins) like a voodoo doll of an ex-boyfriend.
When you're an assassin and you get impaled in the windpipe with an erasable pen, lanced in the thigh with a four-inch heel, drubbed repeatedly with a field hockey stick and finished off with several silencer shots by an industrious former cheerleader, you have to wonder if this Jackson Rippner (Jack the Ripper, get it?) went to Assassin Community College instead of Al-Qaida University.
Still, I found this film enjoyable despite its flimsy premise, despite the bizarre cameo from Colby Donaldson of Survivor fame, despite never fearing the villian for even an milli-moment. Do the French make 80 minute flicks like Phone Booth, Cellular, Flight Plan and Red Eye about being trapped in small spaces by an assassin or a kidnapper? And if they do, how do the French get out of this pickle? Do they sit around and question why their existence is so miserable and claustrophobic and ennui-soaked before having lots of graphic eroticism-free sex with each other?
In America, little girls kick some creepy terrorist ass. God Bless Us All.
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