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Eye, The
Lionsgate
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for violence/terror and disturbing content
Starring
Jessica Alba,
Parker Posey,
Alessandro Nivola,
Tamlyn Tomita,
and
Chloe Moretz
Sydney Wells is an accomplished, independent, Los Angeles-based concert violinist. She is also blind, and has been so since a childhood tragedy. Sydney undergoes a double corneal transplant, a surgery she has waited her whole life to have, and her sight is restored. After the surgery, neural ophthalmologist Dr. Paul Faulkner helps Sydney with the difficult adjustment, and with the support of her older sister Helen, Sydney learns to see again. But Sydney's happiness is short-lived as unexplainable shadowy and frightening images start to haunt her. Are they a passing aftermath of her surgery, Sydney's mind adjusting to sight, a product of her imagination, or something horrifyingly real? As Sydney's family and friends begin to doubt her sanity, Sydney is soon convinced that her anonymous eye donor has somehow opened the door to a terrifying world only she can now see. (Lionsgate)
GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Horror
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Suspense/Thriller
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WRITTEN BY: |
Sebastian Gutierrez
Jo Jo Yuet-chun Hui (2002 screenplay Jian gui)
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DIRECTED BY: |
David Moreau
Xavier Palud
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RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: February 1, 2008
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RUNNING TIME: |
97 minutes, Color |
ORIGIN: |
USA |
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63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Stephen Cole
A quirkily efficient genre exercise that knows exactly where and when to administer its cattle-prod shivers.
50
Entertainment Weekly
Leah Greenblatt
It's as if, on the umpteenth Asian-horror Xerox, the ink has run dry.
50
Variety
Dennis Harvey
This slick effort is effectively creepsome until it bogs down somewhat in plot explication.
50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Unfortunately, the final act (the Mexico sequences) illustrate where to take a ghost story if you want to exchange old-fashioned horror for a grilled cheese sandwich.
50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Their movie is watchable - never more gratuitously so than when Alba is filmed showering and slipping into a tank top. But we've been here before, no?
50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The most vivid aspect of The Eye is its poster image, that of a huge female eye with a human hand gripping the lower lid from the inside. The least vivid aspect is the way Jessica Alba delivers a simple line of expository dialogue.
42
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Tasha Robinson
The major problem is the death of a horror film: It's startling, but not particularly scary.
40
The New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Louder and more literal than its inspiration, The Eye benefits from a spiky performance by Alessandro Nivola as Sydney’s rehabilitation counselor. “Your eyes are not the problem,” he tells her at one point. He is so, so right.
40
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Sacrifices the quietly creepy qualities of the original in favor of ramped-up horror film techniques that by now seem distressingly familiar.
38
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
A tediously noisesome English-language remake of an Asian horror picture that wasn't any great shakes to begin with.
38
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
It's hard to know who bears the brunt of the blame for The Eye's stunning dullness.
20
LA Weekly
Jim Ridley
The entire movie is an object lesson in diminishing returns: of nagging shock cuts and blaring sound cues used as indiscriminately as joy buzzers; of “look out behind you!” scares that wouldn’t make a Cub Scout flinch; of a blurry visual scheme that was far more terrifying in "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," where it sought empathy rather than empty sensation.
20
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Most unforgivably, this Eye culminates not with the mounting dread and spectacular tragedy of the original film's decidedly downbeat vision, but with the trademark LASIK laziness of Hollywood's stylistically blank remake factory.
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