Eye, The

36

Lionsgate (97 minutes)
David Moreau , and Xavier Palud
Jessica Alba , Parker Posey , Alessandro Nivola , Tamlyn Tomita , and Chloe Moretz

Rating: PG-13 for violence/terror and disturbing content

Summary: Sydney Wells is an accomplished, independent, Los Angeles-based concert violinist. She is also blind, and has been so since a childhood tragedy. Sydney undergoes a double corneal transplant, a surgery she has waited her whole life to have, and her sight is restored. After the surgery, neural ophthalmologist Dr. Paul Faulkner helps Sydney with the difficult adjustment, and with the support of her older sister Helen, Sydney learns to see again. But Sydney's happiness is short-lived as unexplainable shadowy and frightening images start to haunt her. Are they a passing aftermath of her surgery, Sydney's mind adjusting to sight, a product of her imagination, or something horrifyingly real? As Sydney's family and friends begin to doubt her sanity, Sydney is soon convinced that her anonymous eye donor has somehow opened the door to a terrifying world only she can now see. (Lionsgate)

Stephen Cole
The Globe and Mail (Toronto):
(63) A quirkily efficient genre exercise that knows exactly where and when to administer its cattle-prod shivers.

Leah Greenblatt
Entertainment Weekly:
(50) It's as if, on the umpteenth Asian-horror Xerox, the ink has run dry.

Dennis Harvey
Variety:
(50) This slick effort is effectively creepsome until it bogs down somewhat in plot explication.

James Berardinelli
ReelViews:
(50) Unfortunately, the final act (the Mexico sequences) illustrate where to take a ghost story if you want to exchange old-fashioned horror for a grilled cheese sandwich.

Wesley Morris
Boston Globe:
(50) Their 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?

Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune:
(50) 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.

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