Red Eye (PG-13)
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This came out in 2005, but I didn't see it until 2016. It's something I was never particularly interested in seeing, but... I wasn't particularly disinterested in it, either. Anyway, I'm glad I finally did see it, because it was decent. Not something I feel the need to ever see again, but it was definitely worth watching once. I also want to say I was expecting it to be scarier than it actually was. It's a psychological thriller, so before I watched it, I was fairly sure I'd put the review under "scary movies." But while watching it, I started thinking I might just put it under "drama" instead. In the end, though, I guess "scary" is the best fit. (Certainly it doesn't hurt that it was directed by Wes Craven.) And I'm not saying it wasn't scary. Just, I dunno... sometimes I think I should separate my reviews of horror movies from thrillers, and this reminded me that I want to do that. (Sometime later, I did separate my scary section into subgenres, including "thrillers.")

Anyway, there's a hotel manager from Miami, named Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams), who has been in Dallas to attend her grandmother's funeral. In her absence, her coworker Cynthia (Jayma Mays) has been handling Lisa's regular duties, and Cynthia seems overwhelmed by this. Anyway, at the airport in Dallas, Lisa meets a man named Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy), who seems nice enough. They end up sitting next to each other on the flight to Miami, and it's not long before Jackson reveals to her that he's been hired to arrange the execution of Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Charles Keefe (Jack Scalia), who will be staying at the hotel where Lisa works. Jackson has an associate stationed outside the home of Lisa's father, Joe (Brian Cox), and Joe will be killed unless Lisa does what Jackson wants. And that is for her to call Cynthia and have her change the room in which Keefe will be staying. Of course, she doesn't want to help get Keefe killed, but she doesn't want her father to be killed, either. So she spends most of the flight trying to find some way to thwart Jackson's plan. Most of her efforts fail, but the tide begins to turn after the plane lands. Still, Jackson remains a threat for some time after that.

And I guess that's all I want to say about the plot. But I also wanted to mention that the head flight attendant was played by Suzie Plakson. (There were at least a couple other actors with minor roles in the movie, whom I knew from other things, but I didn't recognize them at all.)