Red Eye

Rachel McAdams finds terror at 30,000 feet in this nail-biter from Wes Craven that gleefully ticks off every airborne-thriller clich. Nervous flyer McAdams discovers she's the crucial element in a political assassination plot engineered by fellow passenger Cillian Murphy and his ground crew. Though hitman Murphy informs her that her father Brian Cox's life is at stake, the quick-thinking heroine does everything she can to avoid co-operating with his demands. The predictable cat-and-mouse game that unfolds is efficiently taut, skilfully building on the existing claustrophobia of a turbulent night flight. However the best scenes inadvertently follow when the action shifts to solid ground. Events become so ludicrous that they're a scream to watch, particularly when Murphy drops his reptilian cool in favour of pantomime villain-style theatrics. Shifting from high tension to high camp without missing a beat, this is an absurd but deliciously entertaining ride.