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The Eye | 
 enlarge | Directors: David Moreau, Xavier Palud
Actors: Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Parker Posey, Rade Serbedzija, Fernanda Romero
Studio: Lionsgate
Category: Movie
Buy New: $3.99
Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 1122
Genre: Horror
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 97
ASIN: B001C1FCPO
Theatrical Release Date: February 1, 2008
Release Date: October 1, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Ground out another cheap Chinese remake September 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This must be the latest movie making trend. Back in the sixty's they made a lot of cheap Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns that made money. Little did the public know that the stories were borrowed from Japan?
Now someone is trying pitifully to recreate the success of the Eastwood films with such films a "Dark Water" a remake of
"Honogurai mizu no soko kara". Evidently they did not learn their lesson as now we have "The Eye" a cheep remake of the Hong Kong film "Jian Gui". When will they ever learn?
Yes it is the standard formula artist gets a new set of eyes that contain the memory of the donor. Now she sees dead people and must decipher the reason.
This has been done a lot better many times before. And I am sure this is not the last time. The film passes time but has no great insight. To make it scary they turn the volume up 10 times the voice level and for Blu-ray lovers they have lots of flashy things. Somehow I do not remember her getting her eardrums fixed also; so how come she can hear dead people as well?
Jessica Alba is cute and plays her part well. But not well enough to stop the fast forward button from being pressed.
Eyes of Laura Mars Starring: Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones
 One of Year's Worst Movies August 23, 2008
This incredibly dull sleeper had almost no plot and wooden performances. Jessica Alba's performance was boring, expressionless and a bit precious. The movie only has one good scene - towards the end - when it explains the reason for the events. Avoid this badly paced, poorly written snoozer.
ALBA A HOLLOW LEAD FOR J-HORROR REMAKE August 22, 2008
The Eye is the latest American remake of an Asian horror film, this time of the Hong Kong produced film of the same name. The general theme of nearly all of these Americanized remakes is stick with the original! I know...some of you don't like to read subtitles but in the case of this film, the original is vastly better. Jessica Alba continues to get starring roles without demonstrating any particular skill at acting and she's no better here.
She plays a blind concert violinist named Sydney Wells who undergoes cornea transplant surgery to restore her sight. The operation proves to be successful but soon after, Syndey begins experiencing horrific visions. At first she thinks these are just nightmares and tries to pass them off but she soon becomes convinced that she's seeing things that the cornea donor saw. Her Doctor (Nivola) thinks it's merely stress from dealing with the new sensations of her restored sight.
Sydney continues to "see dead people" although why her eyes also allow her to HEAR dead people remains a mystery of the film. The visions are mostly those fleeting glimpses designed to make you jump in your seat although they never amount to any prolonged tension. Sydney is determined to find out who the donor is and what message they are trying to send with the visions. While she will learn that donor had a sort of precognitive power to see people's deaths and attempt to prevent them. This, however, doesn't explain why Sydney would see the ghost of a little boy in her building who is looking for his report card nor the ghost of the little girl in the hospital who died of cancer. It's just one of the many senseless continuity gaffes in "The Eye". Sydney is also able to see mysterious shadow creatures, which seemingly escort dead spirits off to wherever. These creatures appear to be evil so are they devils? They don't like that Sydney can see them but that plot twist goes virtually untapped.
Alba is easy on the eyes (no pun intended) but she lacks any presence or charisma in this role. The only real strength of her performance was her emotions and struggles as a formerly blind person who is able to see for the first time in decades. As tedious as Alba was, her co-star Alessandro Nivola is even more boring. He defiantly tells Sydney that he could ruin his career if he reveals who the donor is...and then he goes and steals the file anyway.
The Eye freely borrows clichés from just about every other J-Horror film that's been made in the last decade but none of them are exciting enough to save this film. Sydney may have had her eyes opened in the film but she'll make ours close tightly.
Extras
The Eye comes on two discs although the second disc features just a digital copy of the film that you can load on your PC or iPod. The first disc includes four featuettes:
"Shadow World: The Paranormal Past"
"Becoming Sydney"
"Birth of the Shadowman"
"Dissecting a Disaster"
There are also a few minutes of deleted scenes and a theatrical trailer.
It's mediocre movie!!! July 30, 2008
I have to no commend this movie. but this movie was mediocre movie. Good thing I rented this movie and watched it. I didn't enjoy it at all.
Movie's ok, DVD Extras are Absurd July 25, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The movie itself isn't that bad. It's what i expected, which wasn't much. I'm not a big fan of horror films since they almost never scare me or even give me the type of thrill that a horror movie should. So this was typical in that regard.
Obviously the premise is a stretch, but that's the fun of movies. She is blind and gets a cornea transplant to restore her vision, but the donor of the cornea's could "see dead people".
Ahem.
That's fine for make-believe stories and entertainment, but the DVD has a featurette with "experts" (can you really be an expert in make-believe?) talking about how "everybody is psychic" and "phenotype to genotype information transfer is possible."
The last quote is from somebody with "doctor" in their title. An actual doctor said that. doubleyou-tee-eff? That whole featurette is nonsense and pseudoscience. It was incredibly irresponsible to produce that and include it on a dvd that will end up in the hands of people that aren't even going to look up anything about genetics and see that phenotype-to-genotype transfer is impossible.
Lion's Gate should be ashamed.
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