Marcus Mattsson

For some reason I like to write more about movies when they suck. I've just seen Red Eye, by Wes Craven, creator of the Scream-trilogy, which, sadly, is pretty obvious in the movie. Red Eye has a surprisingly well beginning, the first 60 minutes are entertaining, with satisfying acting and interesting scenes, but suddenly the movie turns into a typical Wes Craven-slasher, in which the murderer chases the main character through a house. The bad guy is suddenly an idiotic maniac with a big knife, even though he was as calm and cool as Tom Cruise's character in Collateral, and if that movie ended with Cruise chasing Jamie Foxx with a big knife, while he was tripping over every single obstacle, you wouldn't be able to take it serious either, right? It's too bad, because Cillian Murphy's character is very cool, he handles the situations perfectly until the end of the movie, where he's suddenly acting like a retarded maniac.

So after about an hour the movie turns into a Scream-like piece of crap, with pathetic plotholes and everything. The main character even starts to use cliché punchlines and she has suddenly overcome the overwhelming fear she was suffering from in the first 60 minutes of the movie. With a blink of the eye, the movie is finished, even with a typical, oneliner.

3/10