Sunday, January 10, 2010  Underrated Movie #9: Red Eye  Title:
Red Eye Year: 2005 Director: Wes Craven (Scream) Writer: Carl
Ellsworth, story by Ellsworth and Dan Foos Stars: Rachel McAdams
(Sherlock Holmes), Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins), Brian Cox
(Adaptation), Jayma Mays ("Glee")  The Story: An go-getter hotel
manager meets a charming man on a red eye flight. Then he tells
her she has to help him kill the Secretary of Defense or he’ll
kill her father. Tension ensues.  How it Came to be Underrated:
This should have been a big hit, and it should have provided the
big breakthroughs that McAdams and Murphy were waiting for, but
it just went whiff. It didn’t help that a superficially similar
movie with bigger stars and a bigger budget, Flightplan, opened
at the same time.  Why It’s Great:    1. Okay, unlike most of my
previous selections, this is not a 5-star movie. This is a 3 ½
star movie. And that’s what makes it so valuable. This was a
pretty dreadful decade for Hollywood, but not due to a lack of
5-star m