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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

This is exactly what French cinema is best at doing, a brilliant, psychological drama that absolutely makes you sit up and think. I won't spoil the plot for you, as I think everyone should take the time to watch this film, and figure it out for themselves. I will say that the acting is incredible, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Carole Bouquet provide a real tour De force as the main couple. All the incidental characters also make it stick, and the film is so artfully filmed, in fact everything combines together to make an overall brilliant picture. Perhaps needless to say, it is a very psychologically demanding film, but absolutely essential viewing. France after a slip in the 80s and early 90s has come back with vengeance in the Cinema stakes, and hopefully the rest of the world will sit up and take notice of this Cinema Revolution currently going on! Flawless and truly unmissable.

When I see a movie being compared to the works of Hitchcock, it is my duty as a film buff to go out and watch it. But even if you were too put all expectations aside, I'm sure you would find a film with a solid idea, great acting, and some very suspenseful sequences, but also a film filled with plot holes and an unsatisfying ending.The film begins with a French couple going on a car ride to pick up their kids. The man Antoine (superbly acted by an actor I can't remember)has been drinking and during their trip he and his wife Helene (also great, but does not have as much screen time) bicker about how Antoine is not treated like a man. He stops for another drink, whereupon his wife says she will leave if he steps out. Antoine takes the keys and goes out for a drink, but his wife is gone, leaving him a note that she has taken the train. These first 20 minutes provide an excellent set-up, but things really start to crumble from here.I know its great to have the audience know more than the character does, but don't make the character so stupid that it takes him 45 minutes to figure out what we already knew in 5. The hitchhiker Antoine picks up should have worn a sign that said "I am an escaped convict" to save us half the film of watching Antoine pour his heart out. Also, there are so many red herrings that I began to have the most absurd theories (why is his hand in his pocket? is the killer alive? what has Antoine been doing before he crashed? is this even real?!?!?). Regardless, there are still some nail-biting scenes here, two that strike me as particularly unnerving: the ten-minute telephone sequence that is just perfect, and Antoine's nightmare that had me literally jump out of my seat.But you forget how intense this movie was because the ending contains no real payoff. Yes, I know its not supposed to be about suspense. Yes, I know we should have to analyze it because it is deceptively happy. But unlike a similar but better French thriller "Swimming Pool", this movie wraps up all the terrible events in such a pat ending that you can see it in two different ways: an analysis of one man's primal psyche that is marketed as a thriller (this is what it's supposed to be about), or merely a thriller. In the end, this movie barely gives you room to analyze. And when you do reach the conclusion (if you bother to analyze at all), its not really a message that stays with you."Red Lights" is a nice diversion with great acting and some good suspense, but one can't look at a movie in pieces. Whereas great psychological thrillers are like Rubix cubes, this one simply takes a bunch of random puzzle pieces, wraps it up in shoddy paper, and forces you to figure it out, even though the pieces don't quite fit.

Just for the record there are at least as many blue lights as red lights glowing along the various roads they travel on. An interesting but strange movie, never quite got the gist of it. Good thing he found those rocks to put under the tire. Terrific main character acting in body and face language but I never felt anything for him or his wife. I like identifying with someone in the movie, lucked out on this one. And hey was there ever a more docile bad guy and whats with that hand stuck in his pant pocket, hmmm, strong head though. And as so often happens in todays movies the ending duffs instead of the marriage. Lets have some true life endings once in awhile. Oh well, I'll call it a like anyway, I did stay till the end.

After "L'ennui", this was the second Cédric-Kahn-movie I have seen, and I found it great. Kahn proves himself a specialist on ridiculous men lacking self-confidence and absolutely inapt to retain some dignity in a modern world like this.The thriller plot, as stated by some earlier commentators, may be a little weak, especially as regards the "man on the run" (he is obviously taken directly from the Simenon novel but his character is neither fish nor foul). But this is not what it is all about. The thriller plot is merely an excuse to give a touching and disturbing portrayal of character Antoine (and his marriage).Let me answer to two of the "plot holes" discovered by two other commentators: Antoine's drinking does make sense; he drinks because of frustration and a minority complex for not feeling man enough in the presence of his successful wife. His drinking is a childish act of defiance, he is not a sensible grown-up, not a man (as he keeps repeating himself). And of course, he doesn't recall all these telephone numbers from his memory; as indicated with one of the first calls, he calls directory inquiries and has himself connected to the respective partner each time (remember, there is cuts between the various calls).Red Lights is a brilliant character study concealed as a masterpiece of suspense. Darroussin gives a touching performance in his role as hero and anti-hero at the same time. He is not particularly likable but still makes us feel sorry for him.The ending, which I am not going to reveal here, is stirring in a very subtle way because above all it raises the question how it is all going to go on.I like stories in which weird things happen out of character logic. This is a particular successful one.