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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
Video/DVD Releases
Jun 03, 2008 (DVD)
The Eye (2008)

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OFCS Rating: 17% Rotten
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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

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

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

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
OFCS Rating: 17% Rotten
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