Wes Craven’s tight thriller is largely set onboard a red-eye flight in which a terrorist threatens a fellow passenger in order to pull off an assassination plot at the hotel she manages.
It’s also a clever, lean thriller buoyed by two actors toward the beginning of their film careers. Murphy is perhaps too-aptly named Jackson Rippner while Rachel McAdams is his victim, Lisa Reisert.
In Carl Ellsworth’s script, the first few minutes play like a rom-com; two good-looking people meet cute at the airport and sparks immediately fly.
Murphy’s Rippner is a man chosen for the assignment because he has deep charm.
They engage in a cat-and-mouse game throughout the charged flight.
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