Red Eye (**1/4)

In this Wes Craven-directed, airplane-set thriller, Rachel McAdams plays a passenger forced to assist in a plot to assassinate a politician. (The assassins’ objective is never explained.) The first half of the film had me interested, but, as things develop, there’s a hole in the bad guy’s (Cillian Murphy) plot you could fly a 747 through. Or perhaps McAdams’s character is too dumb to figure that out. My 18-year-old coworker gave it a big thumbs-up. She liked the part where the heroine gets to use her field-hockey skills to fend off the villain. By then, however, Red Eye was in a steep descent into formula.

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viewed 8/20/05; reviewed 8/23/05