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Eye, The
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The Eye
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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 \| Horror \| Suspense/Thriller
WRITTEN BY:	Sebastian Gutierrez Jo Jo Yuet-chun Hui (2002 screenplay Jian gui)
DIRECTED BY:	David Moreau Xavier Palud
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: June 3, 2008 Theatrical: February 1, 2008
RUNNING TIME:	97 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole

A quirkily efficient genre exercise that knows exactly where and when to administer its cattle-prod shivers.

Entertainment Weekly Leah Greenblatt

It's as if, on the umpteenth Asian-horror Xerox, the ink has run dry.

Variety Dennis Harvey

This slick effort is effectively creepsome until it bogs down somewhat in plot explication.

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.

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?

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.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson

The major problem is the death of a horror film: It's startling, but not particularly scary.

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.

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.

Premiere Glenn Kenny

A tediously noisesome English-language remake of an Asian horror picture that wasn't any great shakes to begin with.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

It's hard to know who bears the brunt of the blame for The Eye's stunning dullness.

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.

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.

The average user rating for this movie is 7.3 (out of 10) based on 30 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

T J gave it a10:
Why are critics always pretentious arses? It was scary and entertaining, cant ask for much more in a horror film.

MG G. gave it a1:
Pure crap, we've seen it all before.

Edward D. gave it a2:
Just a bad copy of a average movie... Hollywood stop doing this kind of things.

Raymond F. gave it a10:
This was one of the better movies that I have seen all year. Even though most people did not care for it, it was phenomenal. I especially liked the first person camera view because it was more lifelike. Most people did not like it because it was different, different than the average camera shot. There is so much creativity put behind this movie that it is unbelievable. Yes, the camera is shaky but that is what makes the movie much more believable. After watching through what appeared to me as the video camera I found myself more into the movie. As if I was really there and I had the tendency to flinch and jump once in a while. Overall it was a great movie. It was a little short but I am Legend and Rambo are too. This is like the Blair Witch project mixed with Godzilla. Only recommend seeing though if you enjoy sci-fi movies and movies like Godzilla.

Marc K. gave it a5:
Not bad! Maybe I had low expectations.

Mike P. gave it a4:
Not completely terrible, but there wasn't very much to like!

Rob S. gave it a4:
Lot of "been here done that" feel. Some jumps in there for sure, and from what I could get from the audience the elevator scene was the creepiest. The movie has a slow build, starts to confuse you, then throws Sydney into survival mode while her "friends" do the cliched horror movie "there's nothing wrong, it must be you". There could of been some devious twists near the end of the movie, but instead they take the safe route. Alba/Sydney would of made a great villain in the end because the sugar and spice Sydney never really changes as a character. Love the death escort guys...evil looking grim reapers that no one has ever reported from real near death experiences, but at least they're creepy. Rent it, unless you enjoy sitting around annoying teenage kids. One last thing movie makers: please put an end to ghost kids and their echoy sounding voices. I truly have had my fill of the ghost kids and think "cheap" instead of "creep".

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