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63
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57
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49
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Eye of the Beholder
Destination Film Distribution Corp.
FILM:
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
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| 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 |

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83
Portland Oregonian
Diana Abu-Jaber
Director Stephen Elliott has acquitted himself admirably in creating this serious thriller.
63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Tries to blend old film noir and new high-tech thriller styles with only sporadic impact.
50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Watchable even when what's going on makes no sense whatsoever.
50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Elliot fails to make the needed connection between the audience and a peeper who has lost his moral balance.
50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
As meticulously deranged as its paranoid protagonist.

50
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Never brings its potentially intriguing plot strands into focus.

50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Truly weird and unworkable thriller.

50
USA Today
Mike Clark
Far from being a run-of-the-mill slasher pic.
40
Film.com
Robert Horton
Not terribly enjoyable to watch.

40
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
High-buffed, low-rack pulp.

38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
So stupid, so stupefying, so stupendously bad.
31
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
Flows like day-old cement.
30
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Sitting through the film was an exercise in confusion.

30
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
One very sick and messed-up movie.

30
Variety
Deborah Young
A mixed-genre detective pic, thriller and love story that shifts gears too often and doesn't know when to end.

25
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
A hackneyed psycho-sexual thriller with enough awkwardly executed Hitchcock references to qualify as a bad DePalma knock-off.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Attempts to convey emotional dislocation and passion at the same time. All we get is distance.

25
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.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
A perfect example of form without content.

20
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Impenetrable mess of a movie.

20
Film.com
John Hartl
Self-conscious clunker.

20
Los Angeles Times
Eric Harrison
It isn't insultingly bad; it's just incompetent.
20
LA Weekly
John Patterson
Intriguing for a while, then steadily more confusing and finally just incoherent.

12
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
The single worst movie David Lynch never made.

10
Newsweek
Ted Gideonse
Hilariously incompetent.
0
Miami Herald
Curtis Morgan
Pretentious, perplexing and plain rock-dumb movie.

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