Rating of
3/4
"Where's your male-driven, fact-based logic now?"
MovieAddict - wrote on 05/26/13
Jackson Rippner: “Lisa, whatever female-driven, emotion-based dilemma you may be dealing with right now, you have my sympathy. But for the sake of time and sanity, let's break this down into a little male-driven fact-based logic. One simple phone call saves your dad's life.”
The story follows Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams), a workaholic career woman who works at Lux America, an upscale hotel in Miami, Florida. After attending the funeral of her grandmother, she decides to take the red eye flight back to Miami but her plane gets delayed. While waiting in line, she meets an attractive Jackson Rippner , (how fffrreeaakkyy is that?) with the most gorgeous blue eyes (Cillian Murphy in another creepy role) and the two become friends (sort of) and things seem to be progressing nicely when the charming stranger ends up sitting beside her on the plane but soon Lisa realizes Jackson is planning to use her as part of a chilling assassination plot when he makes her an offer she can't refuse. She must change the room of a high ranking American politician Charles Keefe (Jack Scalia) to one of his choosing, or her father dies. As the minutes tick by, she's in a race against time to warn the potential victims before it’s too late. The entire part on the plane with Lisa and Jackson (and the various others) is really tense and exciting.
Cillian Murphy makes an excellent 'bad' guy, switching from a normal, personable guy to someone you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley. With Murphy's crystal cold blue eyes, intense features and silky voice he is perfectly sinister and he strikes up quite a nice rapport with McAdams too even before it becomes a hostage situation. McAdams also does a pretty fine performance as the innocent Lisa who gets pulled into this nightmare situation looking for an escape route. Jayma Mays stars as Cynthia, a flustered trainee manageress who gets roped into Jackson's plot.
This is a great thrill ride all the way through directed by Wes Craven, the man responsible for the 'Scream' franchise.
