Red Eye (2024)

Even though we know that Red Eye is going to have some ridiculous plot turns, with Nolan and Li doing things that make them look like superheroes instead of regular Brits, the performances of the four main characters have us excited to see where this story goes next.

He [Richard Armitage] is serviceably thrilling. .... Perfectly fun, perfectly functional twist-n-conspiracy-laden tale.

Lusi is convincing as the surly officer slowly clocking that someone wants Nolan dead. Armitage is intriguing although wooden as a man who seems to be falsely accused but is hiding something. Just like his dodgy-looking fellow doctors. So far this flight from hell is entertaining, tense and obviously daft.

Red Eye is the ultimate junk-food entertainment, and I don't even mean that in a bad way; sometimes, that's exactly what we need.

Of course we want the terror plot to be foiled but none of the protagonists is particularly likeable or empathetic, and their beef with each other is of modest interest as the plot twists away gently like an airsock in a light breeze.

Red Eye was a show with no real need for a sequel, which is very evident all throughout Season 2, a lacklustre thriller with barely any relation to its already so-so predecessor.

Red Eye is not ambitious. Silly, sure; derivative, yes; but just about watchable – even if only in the way that the in-flight map is watchable after a few too many bloody marys.