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- 1996
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 41 m
- 1996
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 41 m
Summary When the courts fail to keep behind bars the man who raped and murdered her daughter, a woman (Sally Field) seeks her own form of justice.
Directed By: John Schlesinger
Written By: Erika Holzer, Amanda Silver, Rick Jaffa
- 1996
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 41 m
- 1996
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 41 m
Eye for an Eye
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Summary When the courts fail to keep behind bars the man who raped and murdered her daughter, a woman (Sally Field) seeks her own form of justice.
Directed By: John Schlesinger
Written By: Erika Holzer, Amanda Silver, Rick Jaffa
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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22% Mixed
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65% Negative
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
25
13% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
22% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
65% Negative
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
A generally effective revenge thriller. [12 Jan 1996, p.3E]
It’s an exercise in mad-as-hell vigilantism. And to reinforce the absurdity of what fury can be unleashed in a woman when a killer smirks, Sally Field — the Not Without My Daughter star herself — plays the ponytailed mom with the itchy trigger finger.
Call it Death Wish Goes Suburban.
Essentially "Death Wish" in pantyhose. Like that earlier inflammatory fable, this blatant button-pusher plays upon our most primal emotions as well as the increasing disdain for the criminal justice system. It's a crude but effective promotion for frontier-style vigilantism.
Eye for an Eye reaches campy zenith when Field, newly energized - dare I say empowered? - by her martial arts and weaponry skills, turns into a tigress in bed, frightening her husband. [12 Jan 1996, p.28]
Movies like Eye for an Eye cheapen our character by encouraging us to indulge simplistic emotions - to react instead of analyzing. It provides a one-in-a-million situation and tries to teach us a lesson from it; thoughtful audience members will be aware they're not being treated fairly. This is filmmaking at the level of three-card monte. If you don't believe me, see "Dead Man Walking."
It’s early in the new year, but I doubt that 1996 will produce a film more unthinkingly insidious than Eye for an Eye.
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