The Eye
Metascore
36 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 13
  3. Negative: 4 out of 13
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  1. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Stephen Cole
    63
    A quirkily efficient genre exercise that knows exactly where and when to administer its cattle-prod shivers.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    50
    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.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    50
    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?
  4. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    50
    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.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Leah Greenblatt
    50
    It's as if, on the umpteenth Asian-horror Xerox, the ink has run dry.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    50
    This slick effort is effectively creepsome until it bogs down somewhat in plot explication.
  7. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Tasha Robinson
    42
    The major problem is the death of a horror film: It's startling, but not particularly scary.
  8. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    40
    Sacrifices the quietly creepy qualities of the original in favor of ramped-up horror film techniques that by now seem distressingly familiar.
  9. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    40
    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.
  10. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    38
    It's hard to know who bears the brunt of the blame for The Eye's stunning dullness.
  11. Premiere
    Reviewed by: Glenn Kenny
    38
    A tediously noisesome English-language remake of an Asian horror picture that wasn't any great shakes to begin with.
  12. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    20
    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.
  13. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Jim Ridley
    20
    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.

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User Score
6.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 58 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 26
  3. Negative: 11 out of 26
  1. MichaelD.
    10
    They did a great job on close-up pre action "jump" shots. A great way to catch attention. For the writers of this movie, mad props. 10 out of 10.
  2. LiamH.
    4
    it was ok, less then avg. The beginning was cool but it just went downhill from there. If you've seen The Ring movies, then this is pretty much the same thing. You can almost place $million bets on the exact times of big stunners. I would rent it. Bottom line: Rent this movie, don't waste 9.95 for the movie ticket + $40 popcorn Its kinda like the whole Japanese movie conversions have been sucked down to their last drop of sweet nectar, and this is the aftermath.… Full Review »
  3. TJ
    10
    Why are critics always pretentious arses? It was scary and entertaining, cant ask for much more in a horror film.
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