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Official Synopsis:
Sydney Wells is blind and has been so since a childhood tragedy. After undergoing surgery to restore her sight she learns to see again. But soon after, unexplainable shadowy and frightening images start to haunt her. Not knowing if they are an aftermath of surgery, her mind adjusting to sight, her imagination, or something horrifyingly real, Sydney is soon convinced that her anonymous eye donor has somehow opened the door to a terrifying world only she can now see.
Our Take:
There are some unfriendly ghosts in The Eye. That’s one thing the film has in common with every other Asian horror remake we’ve been subjected to over the past few years. The other thing The Eye has in common with every other Asian horror remake is…everything. How many times can filmmakers make the same movie by just changing one slight aspect of the story and have people flock to them in droves? It’s just crazy that this is what passes for horror these days.
Jessica Alba is someone I’ve had a crush on since Idle Hands (one of my favorite movies) but honestly, her acting ability has only decreased since then. And while she isn’t as horrendous in this as she has been recently you can’t exactly label that as a compliment.
Despite figuring this movie to be junk before I watched it, I was slightly excited to see that it was a 2-Disc Special Edition. Well, turns out, despite the bold writing on the top of the DVD case that says it is a 2-Disc set, it actually isn’t. There are a couple of special features on the first disc but the second disc is nothing more than a “digital copy” of The Eye. While it’s kind of cool to include this with the DVD (so you can watch it on your iPod or what have you) it is an incredibly false and misleading advertising tactic to label this DVD as they have done and it made me so angry that I actually took out the second disc and snapped it in half.
* Birth Of The Shadowman (1 minute) – Could have been interesting special effects featurette if it wasn’t so short.
* Becoming Sydney (5 minutes) – Jessica Alba talks about becoming her character.
* Shadow World: Seeing The Dead (8 minutes) - Birth Of The Shadowman should have just been a part of this featurette.
* The Eye: An Explosive Finale (6 minutes) – A small making-of just about the end scene.
The Eye is just another lame retread in what is a dying (although it should already be a dead) genre. Something happens that allows a beautiful woman to see Asian ghosts. A mystery slowly begins to unravel itself and the only way for the strong-willed leading lady to purge these spirits is by solving the mystery at hand. It’s dumb. It’s boring. Please stop bringing these movies to theaters near us.
Overall Picture:
Movie: D-
DVD: C+ (Should be an “F” for False Advertising)
- Landen Chase Pelish
Staff Writer
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