I admit that I didn’t have high hopes for Red Eye, although I am not sure why. It might be because we watched Hijack a few months ago with Idris Elba and that was a hard act to follow.
But I was wrong. This moved along at a brisk pace and stayed tense without overtly torturing the viewer. The plot twisted and turned, but not in unbelieveable way, which is a hard thing to achieve.
The central characters are an English doctor who is being returned to China where he has been accused of a crime that he is not guiltly of. He is being escourted their by a Hong Kong born London police officer. Complication ensue, and then they ensue some more. I especially liked that neither of them were superheroes or performed particular feats of derring-do.
There were lots of people to be suspicious of in the increasingly elaborate scenario, and it made good use of the various places around a bloody big plane. And, at only six episodes, it went by pretty quickly. It’d recommend it!