THE EYE

THE EYE: B

A decent flick that is best categorized as a horrordrama. While the film had a compelling, suspenseful story, it took nearly an hour of unneeded setup before the action began. Film's like this often work best intertwining between mystery and reveal. A question is asked, and then answered. The formula repeats itself to keep its audience wrapped up in the mystery, while allowing them along with the protagonist solving clue by clue.

This film instead decided to ask all of the questions first, one by one, in a slow antagonizing hour before finally getting around to answering them in the last 20 minutes of the film.

It's commendable to see a film try a new approach to the art of storytelling, and if you're able to sit through the full hour of redundancy, the ending is rather satisfying.

Movie gives a bit of a false impression that what you are watching is a true horror. Hints of the "shadows" "phantoms" being the antagonists pop up frequently throughout the middle of the film, only to be revealed to not only be overshadowed, but completely forgotten by the film's ending. We never do find out what they really are, nor is it made a point to once the film reaches its conclusion.

In fact by the film's ending, the horror element has all be disappeared and suddenly her eyes feel more like a superpower than they do a curse. As if you started out watching an episode of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENT'S and it somehow turned into an episode of EARLY EDITION.

In many ways THE EYE is sort of like THE RING meets THE SIXTH SENSE. Only it lacks the scares of THE RING and it lacks the emotional investment of THE SIXTH SENSE.

The acting was ok, but nothing special. The score was unnoticeable.

The story spent way too much time on building the mystery without any leads and might have fared better with better development into explored plausibility.

I've seen better horrordramas and I've seen worse.

Also note an actor I haven't seen since BORN TO BE WILD is in this film. Considering it is 14 years later, he looks the same.