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Pretty poor weak remake of another asian horror movie. Ittells the story of a young lady who gets eye transplants and she starts to see what the previos owner used to see. She sees images of death and wierd things start to happen before her eyes....
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Pretty poor weak remake of another asian horror movie. Ittells the story of a young lady who gets eye transplants and she starts to see what the previos owner used to see. She sees images of death and wierd things start to happen before her eyes. Or.. do they .. The people around her cannot see them. Lets face it people Alba is very pretty so if you are going to see this movie you are probably going to for her. Her acting at best is average and the script is pretty poor. Horror movies in asian seem to have perfected the art of the quick jump to try to create horror. You see one scene and then quickly the camera is turned to show something horrific. This movie is pretty lame and not really worth a viewing. Its not very scary with the exception of those lame quick cuts. Skip it if you can.

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Posted jul 11, 2008 11:32 pm pt

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Pretty poor weak remake of another asian horror movie. Ittells the story of a young lady who gets eye transplants and she starts to see what the previos owner used to see. She sees images of death and wierd things start to happen before her eyes....
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Pretty poor weak remake of another asian horror movie. Ittells the story of a young lady who gets eye transplants and she starts to see what the previos owner used to see. She sees images of death and wierd things start to happen before her eyes. Or.. do they .. The people around her cannot see them. Lets face it people Alba is very pretty so if you are going to see this movie you are probably going to for her. Her acting at best is average and the script is pretty poor. Horror movies in asian seem to have perfected the art of the quick jump to try to create horror. You see one scene and then quickly the camera is turned to show something horrific. This movie is pretty lame and not really worth a viewing. Its not very scary with the exception of those lame quick cuts. Skip it if you can.

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Posted jul 11, 2008 11:32 pm pt

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Pasa... raspando pero pasa... porque la verdad desaprovechan la oportunidad de una buena pelicula de miedo y le dan una historia al final muy maluca.

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Posted jun 30, 2008 3:50 am pt

• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  63
  A quirkily efficient genre exercise that knows exactly where and when to administer its cattle-prod shivers.

  by Stephen Cole | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  50
  It's as if, on the umpteenth Asian-horror Xerox, the ink has run dry.

  by Leah Greenblatt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  50
  This slick effort is effectively creepsome until it bogs down somewhat in plot explication.

  by Dennis Harvey | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  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.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  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?

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  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.

  by Michael Phillips | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  42
  The major problem is the death of a horror film: It's startling, but not particularly scary.

  by Tasha Robinson | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  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.

  by Jeannette Catsoulis | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  40
  Sacrifices the quietly creepy qualities of the original in favor of ramped-up horror film techniques that by now seem distressingly familiar.

  by Frank Scheck | Read Full Review »
• [+] Premiere
  
  38
  A tediously noisesome English-language remake of an Asian horror picture that wasn't any great shakes to begin with.

  by Glenn Kenny | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  38
  It's hard to know who bears the brunt of the blame for The Eye's stunning dullness.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  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.

  by Jim Ridley | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  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.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »