The result is compellingly bonkers.
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01/26/06
Eye of the Beholder (1999)
10 %
Reviews Counted: 84 Fresh: 8 Rotten:76 Average Rating: 3.3/10
Consensus:
Improbable and muddled.
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Synopsis: Eye of the Beholder is a startling journey into obsession, the story of an intelligence agent so taken with a beautiful killer he cannot bear to apprehend her. Set in the surreal world of a high-tech voyeur, the tale follows him across the country as he embarks on a desperate quest for this... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, Patrick Bergin, K.D. Lang, Ann-Marie Brown
Director: Stephan Elliott
Screenwriter: Stephan Elliott
Producer: Nicholas Clermont, Tony Smith
Composer: Marius De Vries
Screenwriter: Stephan Elliott
Producer: Nicholas Clermont, Tony Smith
Composer: Marius De Vries
Reviews
Top Critic
McGregor's and Judd's attentive, focused performances never allow their characters to become lost in Elliott's fractured, virtual America.
12/02/02
The film maintains its story perfectly from the beginning, creating a gorgeous atmosphere and layering the story with hints of thriller, mystery, romance and psychological drama.
12/10/01
If you see and like it, then never read a movie review again: there's no need, since you will enjoy every picture you see.
01/01/00
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06/17/08
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11/01/07
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04/27/07
As misogynistic as anything I've seen in ages, it's tricked up with enough fancy cinematography (by Guy Dufaux) to guarantee it sub-Hitchcockian credentials of the sort that some reviewers eagerly hand out to Brian De Palma.
03/06/07
Remove the directorial flash and filigree, and its narrative would be easier to track.
07/21/05
It's not good when you check your watch every 20 minutes during a 107-minute movie. It's bad when you think, "Yeaahh, rrright" almost as often.
06/25/04
During one scene, some characters take a break by watching a video of Roger Corman's great 1960 The Wasp Woman. I suggest you do the same.
06/05/03
On the bright side, I only lost an hour and half of my life watching this piece of [expletive deleted], unlike those involved in the making of it, who lost months.
03/19/03
As if to make up for the disjointed quality of the story, director Elliott has incorporated various themes into the film, such as the repetitive use of snow globes, angel statues, and astrology... Unfortunately, these things only pretty up a bad picture.
02/08/03
Unfortunately, Elliott’s latest effort contained too many blanks for me to fill in.
08/02/02
If you took five different jigsaw puzzles, threw the pieces together on a table top and spent two hours trying to make a cohesive picture, you might end up with something along the lines of this.
06/23/02
Eye of the Holder makes you wonder how bad are the scripts that Ashley Judd and Ewan McGregor turn down.
06/20/02
It's late January, winter is entrenched, and in the lull between the bounty of Christmas and the renewal of spring, the big screen can sometimes seem barren -- a movable famine.
04/05/02
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