At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Cedric Kahn's movie 'Red Lights' begins as a domestic drama, and one featuring an exceptionally unattractive couple at that: she, controlling and indifferent while he is stubborn and stupid. But after the pair separate during a long drive, the film enters darker territory. The film's structure is one some ways the reverse of that of a conventional thriller, with violent climax, nightmare, and moral redemption occurring in scrambled order: the film works because the viewer can never be certain that the worst is over. Although the initial portrayals are crude (with hindsight, one can say deliberately so), the acting strengthens as the plot thickens, avoiding melodrama and conjuring a mood of increasingly real terror. The cinematography is good as well: night-time roads have not looked this scary since 'Taxi Driver'.

2004 was a good year for foreign films with Feux rouges and Mar adentro and Pedro Almodóvar's La Mala educación. Feux rouges is a great thriller in the style of Hitchcock.Antoine (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) and Hélène (Carole Bouquet) play husband an wife who bicker with each other on a road trip to pick up their children from Summer camp. I bet that many, if not most, husbands may see a lot of themselves in Antoine; and many wives will see themselves in Hélène. It makes you really think about marriage.They split up, with one taking the train, and both come in contact with an escaped convict (Vincent Deniard, in his first film). What happens is the second best part of this film and what makes it a Hitchcock thriller.Not to be missed.

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.

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.