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Movie Overview
Cast
Jessica Alba
Parker Posey
Alessandro Nivola
Director
David Moreau
Xavier Palud
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - for violence/terror and disturbing content
The Eye (2008)
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1/5
"stupendously bad"
Filmcritic.com
Bill Gibron
D
"Jessica Alba is floundering here, forced to spit out idiotic dialogue and make goo-goo eyes toward cold fish Nivola; not to mention she's one half of the most implausible pair of siblings committed to the big screen seen since Schwarzenegger and DeVito."
eFilmCritic.com
Brian Orndorf
"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."
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
3/4
"...ultimately establishes itself as the most effective endeavor of its kind since 2005's
Dark Water
."
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
2/4
"Quite faithful until the dumbed-down Americanized ending, yet time and again the treatment is inferior."
TheMovieBoy.com
Dustin Putman
C+
"One of the less awful horror remakes in recent years."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
1.5/4
"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..."
Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
2/4
"The cornea-deprived caper
The Eye
definitely sports a blurry vision in the meager horror B-movie sweepstakes...never sees clearly in its search for doomsday enlightenment."
TheWorldJournal.com
Frank Ochieng
C
"I spy with my little eye another unnecessary remake of an Asian horror movie."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
1/5
"A poorly acted and instantly forgettable supernatural thriller."
Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
2/4
"When it comes to showing something to end the second-rate horror drought,
The Eye
is blind."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
5/10
"...it doesn't leave us with much more than a feeling that we've been there and seen it all before."
DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio
1.5/4.0
"The feel-good Japanese horror remake vehicle of the year! No, that's a bad thing."
MovieCrypt.com
Kevin A. Ranson
B
"Considering
The Eye
was held from critics for review, it turned out to be surprisingly decent - much better than the putrid
One Missed Call
"
Film School Rejects
Kevin Carr
1.5/4
"It's hard to know who bears the brunt of the blame for
The Eye
's stunning dullness."
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Maitland McDonagh
D
"
The Eye
remake rolls off Hollywood's Asian horror assembly line like expired goods that have been repackaged."
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Mark Pfeiffer
"Alba is very good at looking very good... but she's quite terrible at looking very scared, or very traumatized..."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
3/5
"Just be prepared to suspend your disbelief a little more than usual."
Bronsonfive
Michael Ferraro
2.5/4
"I operate under the belief that horror movies should be scary or, at the very least, surprising.
The Eye
is neither of those, although it is diverting and not without some entertaining moments. I'm on this fence about this one."
Aisle Seat
Mike McGranaghan
1/4
"You'd think that a horror story concerned with the unreliability of sight might at least try to generate scares via the use of visual trickery."
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
2/5
"Um exemplo perfeito da diferença entre um filme que recicla os elementos do gênero terror de maneira criativa e outro que apenas se limita a copiá-los."
Cinema em Cena
Pablo Villaca
2/5
"The fatal flaw with
The Eye
is that it is a bland and boring work that is the cinematic equivalent of a dead light bulb."
eFilmCritic.com
Peter Sobczynski
3/5
"Neither a good movie nor a bad movie,
The Eye
is just ... a movie, sitting there unnecessarily."
eFilmCritic.com
Rob Gonsalves
7/10
"Good special effects and some scary characters put together with great cinematography make this one notch up from a B horror film. Turn off those cell phones now, boys and girls."
Monsters and Critics
Ron Wilkinson
1.5/5
"Takes a B-minus import and turns it into a D-minus retread."
FEARnet
Scott Weinberg
3/5
"it could have been worse"
sbs.is
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
3/10
"A film of no distinction of any kind, destined only to fill the late hours at some 10-year-olds' sleepover party."
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
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