Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 75
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 59
Featuring wooden performances and minimal scares, The Eye is another tedious remake of an Asian horror film.
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 8
Featuring wooden performances and minimal scares, The Eye is another tedious remake of an Asian horror film.
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The remake of the Hong Kong film "Jian Gui", a woman who receives an eye transplant that allows her to see into the supernatural world.
PG-13, 1 hr. 37 min.
Feb 1, 2008 Wide
Jun 6, 2008
$31.4M
Lionsgate Films
All Critics (75) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (60) | DVD (3)
Effectively creepsome until it bogs down somewhat in plot explication.
An effective if redundant fright flick.
When it comes to showing something to end the second-rate horror drought, The Eye is blind.
The most frightening aspect of this supernatural horror film -- a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong thriller -- is that there was a 114-minute version, before someone took pity and snipped it down to a lugubrious 97.
Yet another inferior remake of an Asian horror film.
The 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?
Jessica Alba sees dead people in blah horror film.
It creates a good atmosphere, but no tension. The movie is just not memorable.
It's all based on the creepy little Chinese film Gin gwai, an atmospheric spine-tingler that, we're sad to say, is considerably more frightening than this tame effort.
Terrible direction, forgettable performances, and writers who are so faithful to the source material that they even pick up the original film's plot holes...
...ultimately establishes itself as the most effective endeavor of its kind since 2005's Dark Water.
It's neither scary nor disturbing, neither suspenseful nor involving. It's just well-made, dark-toned confetti. (Blu-ray Edition)
...it doesn't leave us with much more than a feeling that we've been there and seen it all before.
A terrifying treat for horror junkies, as Alba's nervous wreck visionary wards off being attacked by apartments and restaurants, while dealing with a bad case of occult organ rejection.
A terrifying treat for horror junkies, as Alba's nervous wreck visionary wards off being attacked by apartments and restaurants, while dealing with a bad case of occult organ rejection.
With every twist of the second-hand plot telegraphed far in advance, you don't need to be clairvoyant to see where this is going.
Alba simply isn't good enough to carry this kind of movie, and lacks the presence to counter the major deficiencies of a weak and feeble ghost story.
One can't turn a blind eye to such conspicuous failings.
There are a couple of effective scares, but this feels like a retread too far. Enough with J-horror already - let's do something new.
Lionsgate has delivered a solid PG-13 horror film that's both entertaining and suspenseful... and for those of you who don't like it, there will be more SAW on October 24.
The latest American remake of an Eastern import in which the thrills have been hopelessly squandered in translation, replaced with distracting, rapid-fire camerawork and thunderous bumps in the night that reflect a kind of creative desperation.
it could have been worse
Transforming Asian horror into American horror isn't so bad when the filmmakers respect the source material.
t probably goes without saying that the self-involved, privileged Sydney would pay scant attention to the violence and poverty that make up life in Ana's pueblo.
Seeing is disbelieving.
So from my experiences, the original versions of theses from Japan, China, or wherever are usually better. But I will give Jessica Alba props on this one. She convinced me on this one. This movie wasnt overly scary but did have several shiver moments for me. The goosebump types.
June 21, 2008Super Reviewer
I saw The Eye - not this one, but the Pang Brothers' Hong Kong original - about seven years ago when I was in my all things J-Horror phase, and while I found the concept rather unique, there were glaring flaws in the story and in the way the filmmakers decided to deliver their scares. The idea that a person who has
January 4, 2012Super Reviewer
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