A Short Flight

Saw the new Wes Craven thriller "Red Eye" tonight. It's about a crime that goes down on an airplane.

The whole film has the look and feel of a good TV movie of the week. All the key characters are introduced in the first few minutes in ways that come into play later in the plot -- nosy old lady, cute 8-year-old flying alone, sullen teenager, rude passenger, helpless lady, etc.

What bugged me is the film is set on a red eye flight from Dallas to Miami. But in reality there are no overnight flights between those city pairs. It can't be more than a 3 hour flight with a 1 hour time difference. So if you leave at 10:30 (which you can read on one of the character's watches) you'd be landing at 2:30 in the morning. And planes are rarely scheduled to land between midnight at 5:30 in the morning. But fortunately for the characters in the movie, when they land in Miami it's sunny.

I lost track of how many holes Cillian Murphy gets punched in him. But like all good slasher villains, he keeps on going.

The entire movie clocks in a 80 minutes, so they certainly keep the train, er...plane, moving.