Blindness
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Metascore
45 out of 100

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5.9 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 81 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 cou 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)… Collapse

Critic Reviews

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. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Kimberley Jones
    78
    It's a rattling, heartrending performance (Moore) in, yes, a long, hard slough of a film – one that is well worth the journey, if not a repeat trip.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  2. BenM.
    8
    Lord Of The Flies'esque film which touches on basic human instincts of survival when things don't go quite to plan. Can't help but be moved by this film. Some questions remain unanswered, but does everything always need explaining? certainly not.… Expand
  3. Stephanies.
    7
    Michelle S, seriously? you obviously missed the point of the novel. if you even read the novel. the movie stayed true to the spirit of the book and i think anybody could appreciate that.… Expand
  4. SaramangoWeeps
    2
    The did a great job at ruining one of the best books I've ever read.

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