Okay, but resorts to common stereotypes

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	• The Eye Jessica Alba Lions Gate, 2008 view larger image
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I Liked it!

I think the only reason I like this movie is because I haven't seen the Orignal. Most people who have seen the orginal and enjoyed it shouldn't even try to watch a re-make, not just for this film but any because no matter how good it was they'll hate it. I have to say I enjoyed all the re-makes so far. "The Grudge"; "One Missed Call" and so on and so forth. I also like these because I haven't seen the org: The movie is worth watching.

The Eyes Don't Quite Have It

There's always room for one more thriller to slide a chill or two through the cracks around our casements. I'm not sure though that "The Eye" quite does the job. It's not too bad, but it's too much of a re-tread.

It might remind the viewer of any number of 1950's drive-in horror flicks that featured reanimated body parts. There was "The Hand," the "Head," and indeed a host of either transplanted or disembodied eyes with minds of their own. So the idea that a pair of transplanted eyes can see things that their new owner never saw - is an old one.

Then this film also recycles a lot of its special effects from "The Grudge" and "The Ring" - right down to specifics, including a pair of feet levitating behind the person riding on an elevator.

"The Eye" is also somewhat disappointing in that no real chemistry ever develops between the blind woman who receives an eye transplant and the doctor who counsels her after the operation. Although at the end of the film, the two take a dramatic road trip together in order to solve the mystery of the alarming visions that Jessica Alba's character is having - no convincing bond forms between them.

Finally, a volley of what initially sounded to me like pseudo-scientific rationales are delivered to make the premise of this film sound possible. They invoked entanglement and other concepts from quantum physics to make a convincing case that memories can reside in separate body parts. I laughed this off at first. But coincidentally, right after seeing "The Eye," an article appeared in an authoritative scientific magazine explaining that researchers are now coming to believe more literally in "body knowing." In their artificial intelligence departments, they are finding that in order to build effective robots, they have to distribute intelligence throughout all the functioning parts of the robot, rather than centralizing commands in a "brain." They now believe that this distributed intelligence is actually a better model of how humans themselves function. The article concluded that different parts of the body inform the brain with their memories and intelligences, rather than the other way around.

So perhaps "The Eye" does have it after all - or at least some of it.

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The Eye

The movie is good just not scary!!
I rate this movie a 7 from 1to10!!

Okay, but resorts to common stereotypes

I'm actually very surprised that a remake would have been made of "The Eye," especially since I thought that by now, unless you're living under a rock, you've probably seen the original Pang Bros. creation. Also, I was very surprised that Jessica Alba would have been chosen as the lead in this film; first of all, I'm not an Alba fan -- she seems to be more the type that young preteen and teenage boys have a hankering for, and has starred in some quite embarrassing movies. Despite this, I found her performance in "The Eye" to be subdued and proper to the role, something that I was surprised by (she can actually act, wow!). I actually think the script was too limiting for Alba, and nearing the end, especially in the Mexican setting, she begins to almost look embarrassed because the script was so bad.

In sum, I liked the movie somewhat, although it can never compare to its original, much eerier predecessor; however, a little after half of the film, it starts to suffer from typical Hollywood syndrome. I actually think that the writers just thought that since Jessica Alba is part Mexican, that they should make her counterpart in the film Mexican and set in in a little dingy town that once again, stereotypes all Mexicans in the same light. For those who don't know, Mexico is not all shacks and slums and degradation. In sum, the film could have done much better if it had not resorted to this typical whitewashing of the American who has to save the poor third-world country peasant. That's why I'm giving it only three stars.

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It's not THAT bad, guys...

Okay, there ARE too many Asian horror movies being reworked and lame-ified by ham-fisted Hollywood production companies and starring cute white chicks. But those Asian dudes kick out hot horror flicks like Americans kick out theatrical remakes of seventies TV sitcoms. They're just better at it than us; especially the Koreans and the Japanese, although the original movie this was ripped off from was made in Hong Kong, like the DVD player I watched it on.

The story was actually pretty coherent and creepy, and the direction was clever enough to jolt me a couple times. The cinematography served the story in giving every scene a lonely, mournful feel, and the sets were really cool; for instance, the hallway in the main character's apartment complex is constructed as a zig-zag to illustrate the confusion she's feeling in her life.

I guess if you're one of those gore freaks who's so desensitized that you have to watch snuff films to get an adrenaline high, this film will play like a BBC production of a Jane Austen novel. But for those of us who grew up in the seventies, watching slow-burn scary movies late at night on a black-and-white TV, this is right up our alley.

Oh yeah, and Jessica Alba's performance was quite good, not that it had to be.

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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.

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