The Eye
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Actor: Jessica AlbaBrand: EYE, THE - WS/FS (DVD MOVIE)
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-03
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of The Eye
DVD Review: loved it!!
Summary: 5 Stars
i am a huge fan of jessica alba and i thought this movie was amazing and it had an awesome story line to it. this movie gave me the creeps but in a good wayDVD Review: Watching with one eye shut
Summary: 2 Stars
In "The Eye," a remake of a Chinese movie from 2002, Jessica Alba plays a blind woman who gets her sight back thanks to a successful cornea transplant. The only hitch is that with her new eyes - which were donated by a young lady with psychic powers - comes the unasked-for ability to see into the spirit world and predict the future.
"The Eye" might have been an interesting film had it focused solely on how a once-blind girl learns to adjust to life in a suddenly sighted world. Instead, we're subjected to an inane, gimmicky thriller in which the heroine improbably manages to run across either a dead person or someone doomed to die just about every time she turns a corner.
There's no end of point-of-view shots in which ghouls jump out and yell "Boo!" at the audience, but the whole thing is about as scary as a youngster dressed in a bedsheet doing the same thing on Halloween.
DVD Review: The Eye
Summary: 3 Stars
The movie is good just not scary!!
I rate this movie a 7 from 1to10!!
DVD Review: The Eyes Don't Quite Have It
Summary: 3 Stars
There's always room for one more thriller to slide a chill or two through the cracks around our casements. I'm not sure though that "The Eye" quite does the job. It's not too bad, but it's too much of a re-tread.
It might remind the viewer of any number of 1950's drive-in horror flicks that featured reanimated body parts. There was "The Hand," the "Head," and indeed a host of either transplanted or disembodied eyes with minds of their own. So the idea that a pair of transplanted eyes can see things that their new owner never saw - is an old one.
Then this film also recycles a lot of its special effects from "The Grudge" and "The Ring" - right down to specifics, including a pair of feet levitating behind the person riding on an elevator.
"The Eye" is also somewhat disappointing in that no real chemistry ever develops between the blind woman who receives an eye transplant and the doctor who counsels her after the operation. Although at the end of the film, the two take a dramatic road trip together in order to solve the mystery of the alarming visions that Jessica Alba's character is having - no convincing bond forms between them.
Finally, a volley of what initially sounded to me like pseudo-scientific rationales are delivered to make the premise of this film sound possible. They invoked entanglement and other concepts from quantum physics to make a convincing case that memories can reside in separate body parts. I laughed this off at first. But coincidentally, right after seeing "The Eye," an article appeared in an authoritative scientific magazine explaining that researchers are now coming to believe more literally in "body knowing." In their artificial intelligence departments, they are finding that in order to build effective robots, they have to distribute intelligence throughout all the functioning parts of the robot, rather than centralizing commands in a "brain." They now believe that this distributed intelligence is actually a better model of how humans themselves function. The article concluded that different parts of the body inform the brain with their memories and intelligences, rather than the other way around.
So perhaps "The Eye" does have it after all - or at least some of it.
DVD Review: It's not THAT bad, guys...
Summary: 3 Stars
Okay, there ARE too many Asian horror movies being reworked and lame-ified by ham-fisted Hollywood production companies and starring cute white chicks. But those Asian dudes kick out hot horror flicks like Americans kick out theatrical remakes of seventies TV sitcoms. They're just better at it than us; especially the Koreans and the Japanese, although the original movie this was ripped off from was made in Hong Kong, like the DVD player I watched it on.
The story was actually pretty coherent and creepy, and the direction was clever enough to jolt me a couple times. The cinematography served the story in giving every scene a lonely, mournful feel, and the sets were really cool; for instance, the hallway in the main character's apartment complex is constructed as a zig-zag to illustrate the confusion she's feeling in her life.
I guess if you're one of those gore freaks who's so desensitized that you have to watch snuff films to get an adrenaline high, this film will play like a BBC production of a Jane Austen novel. But for those of us who grew up in the seventies, watching slow-burn scary movies late at night on a black-and-white TV, this is right up our alley.
Oh yeah, and Jessica Alba's performance was quite good, not that it had to be.
Description of The Eye
Sydney Wells is blind and has been so since a childhood tragedy. After undergoing surgery to restore her sight she learns to see again. But soon after, unexplainable shadowy and frightening images start to haunt her. Not knowing if they are an aftermath of surgery, her mind adjusting to sight, her imagination, or something horrifyingly real, Sydney is soon convinced that her anonymous eye donor has somehow opened the door to a terrifying world only she can now see.General DVDs
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