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Eye of the Beholder
Destination Film Distribution Corp.


2.6

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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

MPAA RATING: R for some strong violence, sexuality, language and brief drug content

Starring Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, Jason Priestly, k.d. lang, Patrick Bergin, and Genevieve Bujold

A journey into obsession, this is the story of a British intelligence agent (McGregor) so taken with a beautiful killer (Judd) that he cannot bear to apprehend her. Set in the surreal world of a high-tech voyeur, the tale follows him across the country as he embarks on a desperate quest for this enigmatic femme fatale. (Destination Films)

GENRE(S):	Suspense/Thriller
WRITTEN BY:	Marc Behm (novel) Stephan Elliott
DIRECTED BY:	Stephan Elliott
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: May 23, 2000 Video: May 23, 2000 Theatrical: January 28, 2000
RUNNING TIME:	101 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	UK / Canada

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...

Portland Oregonian Diana Abu-Jaber

Director Stephen Elliott has acquitted himself admirably in creating this serious thriller.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Tries to blend old film noir and new high-tech thriller styles with only sporadic impact.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Watchable even when what's going on makes no sense whatsoever.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Elliot fails to make the needed connection between the audience and a peeper who has lost his moral balance.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

As meticulously deranged as its paranoid protagonist.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Never brings its potentially intriguing plot strands into focus.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Truly weird and unworkable thriller.

USA Today Mike Clark

Far from being a run-of-the-mill slasher pic.

Film.com Robert Horton

Not terribly enjoyable to watch.

Village Voice Jessica Winter

High-buffed, low-rack pulp.

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

So stupid, so stupefying, so stupendously bad.

Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson

Flows like day-old cement.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Sitting through the film was an exercise in confusion.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

One very sick and messed-up movie.

Variety Deborah Young

A mixed-genre detective pic, thriller and love story that shifts gears too often and doesn't know when to end.

Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday

A hackneyed psycho-sexual thriller with enough awkwardly executed Hitchcock references to qualify as a bad DePalma knock-off.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Attempts to convey emotional dislocation and passion at the same time. All we get is distance.

Entertainment Weekly Ty Burr

There's not much else for viewers to do but give themselves over to the whims of the bad-movie gods.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak

A perfect example of form without content.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Impenetrable mess of a movie.

Film.com John Hartl

Self-conscious clunker.

Los Angeles Times Eric Harrison

It isn't insultingly bad; it's just incompetent.

LA Weekly John Patterson

Intriguing for a while, then steadily more confusing and finally just incoherent.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

The single worst movie David Lynch never made.

Newsweek Ted Gideonse

Hilariously incompetent.

Miami Herald Curtis Morgan

Pretentious, perplexing and plain rock-dumb movie.

The average user rating for this movie is 2.6 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Scott G. gave it a2:
Good elements: mood, pacing, Ashley Judd, a sense of danger, Ashley Judd, and -- uh -- Ashley Judd. Bad elements: the story, k.d. Lang (great singer, bad actor), the ending. It's interesting to watch, and totally forgettable once it's over.

florian o. gave it a0:
Waste of time.

Fred W. gave it a1:
Incoherent is the term that doesn't even begin to describe this mess. Ashley Judd doing a poor imitation of Angelina Jolie - Suggest that the best use of this DVD is skeet shooting.

Graeme E. gave it a 1:
I like Ewan McGregor, but from one Scot to another this film was awful.

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Eye of the Beholder Destination Film Distribution Corp.

Eye of the Beholder
Destination Film Distribution Corp.