When the conceptual rug is pulled out from under the audience and the wacky camera angles start coming fast and hard, Open Your Eyes pays off with some intriguing SF themes.
Open Your Eyes (1997)
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Reviews Counted:44
Fresh:37
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: Director Alejandro Amenábar tackles some heady issues with finesse and clarity in Open Your Eyes, a gripping exploration of existentialism and the human spirit.
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Handsome 25-year-old César (Eduardo Noriega) has it all--a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women. Unfortunately, he can't... Handsome 25-year-old César (Eduardo Noriega) has it all--a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women. Unfortunately, he can't get rid of his latest conquest, Nuria (Najwa Nimri) soon enough. When she crashes his birthday party, César uses his best friend Pelayo's stunningly attractive girlfriend, Sofia (Penélope Cruz), as a means to her. The next morning, Nuria is waiting in her car outside his apartment and manages to coax him into the vehicle. The next thing César knows, he's wearing a mask to conceal a horrible disfiguration while being interrogated in a prison held on a murder charge. Alejandro Amenábar's thriller distorts both the viewer's and César's perception of reality with a series of mind-bending plot twists, ensuring that this intriguing Spanish production will keep you guessing until its final moments. [More]
Starring: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz
Starring: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
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Reviews for Open Your Eyes
The first portion of the movie can't possibly prepare audiences for what turns out to be a series of inane plot contrivances, which help the movie end with a real thud.
A film with enough intellectual meat on its stylish bones to give more adventurous moviegoers something to chew on afterward.
What makes it all work is Amenabar's smoothly assured handling of the material, which is always in danger of becoming too silly to bother with.
This sophomore feature by Amenábar is a deeply complex psychological mind warp of a film that begs to be viewed more than once.
The cumbersome, fantastical plot twists of its last 40 minutes render the whole thing unfathomable.
When they finally reveal the Big Secret, you're liable to just shake your head -- both because it's so ludicrous and because you can easily and correctly write the epilogue.
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| 77% 77% | The Hangover |
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| 66% 66% | Public Enemies |
| 24% 24% | G-Force |
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