The movie is watchable -- never more gratuitously so than when Alba is filmed showering and slipping into a tank top. But we've been here before, no?
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02/04/08
The Eye (2008)
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Reviews Counted:74
Fresh:16
Rotten:58
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Featuring wooden performances and minimal scares, The Eye is another tedious remake of an Asian horror film.
Theatrical Release:24-04-2008
Synopsis: THE EYE adapts the influential 2002 Hong Kong ghost tale by the Pang brothers into a star vehicle for Jessica Alba. While it remains faithful to the original story, this version ups the number of... [More]
Starring: Jessica Alba, Parker Posey, Alessandro Nivola
Director: David Moreau, Xavier Palud
Reviews for The Eye
The most vivid aspect of The Eye is its poster image, that of a huge female eye with a human hand gripping the lower lid from the inside. The least vivid aspect is the way Jessica Alba delivers a simple line of expository dialogue.
02/04/08
The Eye is the latest Western deconstruction of a successful Asian horror movie and it is louder and more literal than its inspiration.
02/04/08
Top CriticThe script is credited to Sebastian Gutierrez, who penned Snakes On a Plane, a movie that knew how to have scares and sex and a bit of fun. What happened?
02/04/08
Neither a good movie nor a bad movie, The Eye is just ... a movie, sitting there unnecessarily.
02/03/08
The Eye remake rolls off Hollywood's Asian horror assembly line like expired goods that have been repackaged.
02/03/08
A poorly acted and instantly forgettable supernatural thriller.
02/03/08
Alba is very good at looking very good... but she's quite terrible at looking very scared, or very traumatized...
02/03/08
The feel-good Japanese horror remake vehicle of the year! No, that's a bad thing.
02/03/08
Takes a B-minus import and turns it into a D-minus retread.
02/02/08
Not spectacular, not a waste, it's clever enough to keep its momentum going, and smart enough to not overreach its mission of being a diverting 90 minutes or so
02/02/08
One of the less awful horror remakes in recent years.
02/02/08
You're better off avoiding any eye contact with this movie.
02/02/08
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.
02/02/08
Quite faithful until the dumbed-down Americanized ending, yet time and again the treatment is inferior.
02/01/08
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.
02/01/08
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.
02/01/08
It's hard to know who bears the brunt of the blame for The Eye's stunning dullness.
02/01/08
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.
02/01/08
Considering The Eye was held from critics for review, it turned out to be surprisingly decent - much better than the putrid One Missed Call
02/01/08
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