Gin gwai (The Eye) (2002)
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 104
Fresh: 67 | Rotten: 37
Conventional ghost tale with a few genuine scares.
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 9
Conventional ghost tale with a few genuine scares.
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A corneal transplant sets the stage for terror in this supernatural thriller from directors Danny and Oxide Pang. Blind from the age of two, 20-year-old Mann (Angelica Lee) now has a chance to reclaim her sense of sight thanks to recent breakthroughs in technology. At first elated to have her vision restored, Mann's joy soon turns to paralyzing fear when she begins to see mysterious dark figures which foreshadow sudden, shocking deaths. Subsequently distraught over seeing Ling (Chutcha
Cast
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Lee Sinje
Mun -
Lawrence Chou
Dr. Wah -
Chutcha Rujinanon
Ling -
Candy Lo
Yee -
Pierre Png
Dr. Eak -
Yin Ping Ko
Mun's Grandmother -
Edmund Chen
Dr. Lo -
Wilson Yip
Taoist -
Yut Lai So
Yingying -
Benjamin Yuen
Mr. Ching -
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All Critics (117) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (71) | Rotten (39) | DVD (26)
With its spooky first-person rendering of Mun's experience -- blurred, tentative, disoriented -- The Eye creates a world of constant and imminent upheaval.
Top CriticThough perhaps not the greatest thing since sliced eyeballs, The Eye is definitely worth a look, or even a double-take.
A modest pleasure for aficionados of chillers.
Seeing dead people? A jarring journey from darkness into light? Granted, it's been done. But there are sweet, difficult pleasures here just the same.
It's a definite display of talent, but without enough thematic richness to get deeply under our skins.
An atmospheric and cleverly executed nail-biter.
Jessica Alba sees dead people in blah horror film.
Fortunately, the dramatic shortcomings are balanced not only by the scare tactics but also by a subtle emotional poignancy that elicits almost as many tears as screams.
Is it a horror, a thriller, a tragedy, a disaster pic, or a romance? It's never really sure, but either way it limps along through various dips into different genres and often times is scrambled and confused...
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Fans of the genre may still find the film as creepy and scary as it is intended to be, although it relies for so much of its scare-power on sudden bursts of flame accompanied by fearsome noise, or the appearance of ghostly death figures
'The Eye' could be worth seeing as a matinee or rental.
Made me jump a bunch of times, and seriously creeped me out at least three times.
Sure, the "I see dead people" plot is a bit worn out, but there's enough mood and spookiness to make for a fun MM flick.
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