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5.8 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 77 Ratings

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  • Summary: It begins in a flash, as one man is instantaneously struck blind while driving home from work, his whole world suddenly turned to an eerie, milky haze. One by one, each person he encounters – his wife, his doctor, even the seemingly good Samaritan who gives him a lift home – will in due course suffer the same unsettling fate. As the contagion spreads, and panic and paranoia set in across the city, newly blind victims of the “White Sickness” are rounded up and quarantined within a crumbling, abandoned mental asylum, where all semblance of ordinary life begins to break down. (Miramax Films)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 31
  3. Negative: 7 out of 31
  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Bill White
    83
    Meirelles adds another perspective, that the epidemic might be a good thing if, by being thrown into the darkness together, we may once again recognize the human family to which we all belong.
  2. NPR
    Reviewed by: Bob Mondello
    60
    Moore is always watchable, Ruffalo and Bernal get a nice rivalry going without ever establishing eye contact (as it were), and Danny Glover has some nice moments in an underdeveloped part as an older man who finds, to his benefit, that love is blind.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    38
    Blindness is one of the most unpleasant, not to say unendurable, films I've ever seen.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 41
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 41
  3. Negative: 16 out of 41
  1. carlitod
    10
    This movie rocks! A must see. Beautifully shot and executed. a flawless piece of what will one day become cult cinema.
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. Sean
    4
    Difficult slog. The descent into moral depravity was too quick, too easy, too unbelievable to be explained by mere blindness. Too many people standing idly by when EVERYTHING about their situation should have demanded more strident action, more intelligent and more organized a response. I felt frustrated and angered by the patheticness of it all--even the incomprehensible inability of the soldiers to respond in a minimally meaningful or conciliatory fashion was pointlessly baffling. This is a movie where the details felt entirely disingenuous and ridiculous, as if every possible Orwellian fault was systematically exposed before being played to the hilt. Somehow, though, the overall setting/plot device somehow managed to remain both plausible and quite strong in its impact. Some solid acting saved this for me... but still nothing stellar. A week later and I didn't think of it once until I was reminded of it on this site. It could have been great had real people been blinded instead of a loose conglomeration of hypothetical constructs.… Expand
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  3. JonB.
    3
    Where to start... The theme behind the movie as previously mentioned is that one can only see the true nature of humanity if we are blind to race and appearance. This movie does a good job of showing that... But, I thought the movie was too long and I was really put off by the rape scenes.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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