The Eye [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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Lionsgate Release date: Tuesday 3rd of June 2008 Starring: Alessandro Nivola, Fernanda Romero, Rade Serbedzija, Jessica Alba, Parker Posey, Director(s): Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Region code: 1 Running time: 98 minutes Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Subtitled) Language: Spanish (Subtitled) Language: Spanish (Dubbed)

Hollywood need to stop doing this................,
Review date: 2008-04-25 Rating: 6 out of 10

This new trend with the film industry when it comes to the east vs. west or the west vs. east doesn't seem like it's slowing down any time soon plus they all end up having the same scare tactics. What they sometimes do is remove color from the "monster" making him look all shades of grey and then they remove frames while it's moving. Making it look like it's jerking around and pop locking. We saw it in the eastern remake of `The Ring,' the eastern remake of `The Grudge' and we see it again in `The Eye.' I guess if you have a winning formula you stick to it but I don't think every year we need to have some black and blue kid pop-locking on the big screen in his or her attempt to make me jump in my seat. I know I've been warned by this film through my Amazon friends but I had to see it for myself.

For those who don't know we are introduced to Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba) who is an accomplished, independent, Los Angeles-based concert violinist. She is also blind, and has been so since a childhood tragedy. As our story opens, 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.

Though it wasn't really an original film it wasn't a horrible. Jessica Alba is finally getting to the point where I think she can carry a film by herself. In the past she has just been a bit of arm candy for a movie. But that's not the case any more. In the Eye she pretty convincingly goes through the emotional ups and down's of being a blind girl that has adapted to her disability for nearly her entire life. Then recent breakthroughs in science allow her the gift of site via a cornea transplant. It's also worth noting that the film did have a few quality jerk moments. At the end of the day it's a good albeit unoriginal horror flick that you'll probably pass on.