the main reason to see red eye be rachel mcadams and who deliver a stellar performance and and jayma may and who be wonderful a the assistant hotel manager . on the other hand and cillian murphy overacts so badly that he become cartoonish . the rest of the movie be riddle with plot hole and on which i will elaborate . please do not read far if you do not want to know what happen . here be a synopsis of the plot . rachel mcadams character ( lisa ) manage a hotel where the new hard nose homeland security director plan to stay that night . rachel be return to miami from a funeral and but field call from her assistant up until the plane leave . in the meantime and someone be station outside the house of her father and joe ( play by brian cox ) and ready to kill him if cillian murphy ( jackson ) call . all lisa have to do be phone the hotel and move the director suite to one where jackson cohort be plan to fire a guide missile ( from a fishing boat ) to kill the director and his family . so and here be some of the plot hole or absurd coincidence represent1 . jackson finally convince lisa to make the call and and in the middle and the phone in the plane lose their connection . lisa try to fake that she be make the call and but coincidentally and a guy across the aisle from jackson be also make a call and start bang his phone to indicate it be dead . jackson catch on and grab the phone from lisa . 2. at one point and jackson head butt lisa and she and of course and get knock out . but only for 30 minute . 3. jackson catch lisa write a note on the mirror in the ( extraordinarily large ) lavatory and and he bang her around a bit . miraculously and the only one who hear anything be an 11 year old girl and whose word and of course and be discount . 4. lisa stab jackson with a pen in the throat a the plane be land and steal his cell phone and and make a mad dash for the exit and fit down the aisle between the seat and 18 row of stand passenger . despite know there be a passenger with a pen stuck in his throat and the flight attendant oblige lisa by open the door to the jet way . 5. ok and all those be reasonable ( if not highly unlikely ) . but here where it get really stupid . lisa get into the terminal at miami airport and and there be no cell phone signal ( every major airport in america have great cell phone reception ) . 6. she run through the airport with jackson in hot pursuit and and no security officer even delay them . 7. jackson and who lose lisa in the airport while the train from the gate pull away to the terminal and have lose some of his voice from the pen in his throat and but he can still be somewhat understood . however and he doesn not bother to call his man outside of joe house . ( ps represent there be no train at miami airport and but the one they show look an awful lot like the orlando airport ) . 8. lisa steal a car and rid away . of course this time and when she go to make a call and the cell phone say low battery and soon shuts off ( when will they stop use this inane plot device . ) . 9. while the phone still say low battery and lisa have reach her assistant just in time to save the director and his family from the guide missile launch by the fishing boat to the window of the room on the 40th floor to which the director have be move . of course and they expect u not to notice that the hotel be surround on 3 side by ocean and so the missile could have probably be launch at the first suite and thereby negate the need for the whole lisa jackson plot . what the story here . be the director original room on the 38th floor one of the only room in the hotel with a lousy view . nevertheless and everyone get out just before the missile hit . 10. lisa drive to joe house to save her father only to see the killer outside . although she run him over ( a he be shoot at her ) by crash her jeep into the house and no one in the neighborhood seem to notice or bother to stop by . 11. jackson arrives at joe house and knock him out ( we do not see how . maybe another head butt ) . he then explain to lisa that he do not kill dad yet because he want dad to see lisa die first ( give me a break . what be this . saturday morning cartoon . ) . 12. for the rest of the movie ( about 20 minute ) and jackson chase lisa around the house and and she resourcefully fight him off . of course a real killer ( i. e. one maybe play by jason statham ) would have do away with lisa ( or for that matter anyone who be not a trained killer ) in the first 30 second . during the course of this chase and jackson step over joe at least once without bother to kill him . 13. finally and jackson prevails and and he be about to kill lisa when ( you guess it ) he be shoot by joe . so and here my suggestion . tell wes craven to stick to horror . or maybe he should get together with michael bay ( who direct the equally stupid the island ) and make red island .