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Actors: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Red Eye |
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Lisa Reisart (Rachel McAdams) is the manager of a hotel and has a fear of flying. When she meets this man (Cillian Murphy) in the airport and they find out they're seats are beside of each other she becomes excited because she likes him. It turns out that he wants Lisa to switch a rich guys room so that they can kill him or he will kill her father. She spends most of the movie trying to find out what to do.
--Kelsey Isaacs, Resident Scholar
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Lisa is a hotel manager catching the red eye flight back home to Miami after attending her grandmother's funeral. At the airport she meets a charming man named Jackson. It turns out he has the seat next to her on the plane. But Jackson soon reveals he is not what he seems. It turns out he has been spying on her for weeks in order to carry out his mission. He must get her to call her hotel and change the room of the leader of Homeland Security so that it will be easier to assassinate him. If Lisa doesn't make the phone call, Jackson will have one of his associates kill her father. How can Lisa save the diplomat while ensuring her father's safety?
--Sarah Bastin, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Red Eye |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Legal/Political Thriller?
Yes
Political Plotlets:
- preventing an assassination
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- medium/shoulderlgn, wavy (woman)
Body type
- average (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- spy
- businessman, big
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
- 90%-100%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Air?
Yes
Air:
- passenger plane
City?
Yes
City:
- Miami
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of torture
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
How many deaths in film?
- 1
- 2
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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