The Eye [Blu-ray] [2008] [US Import]

RRP Lowest New Price £13.83

Lionsgate Release date: Tuesday 3rd of June 2008 Starring: Rachel Ticotin, Parker Posey, Jessica Alba, Rade Serbedzija, Danny Mora, Format: AC-3, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Running time: 97 minutes Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Subtitled) Language: Spanish (Subtitled) Language: Spanish (Dubbed)

Ground out another cheap Chinese remake
Review date: 2008-07-13 Rating: 4 out of 10

This must be the latest movie making trend. Back in the sixty's they made a lot of cheap Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns that made money. Little did the public know that the stories were borrowed from Japan?

Now someone is trying pitifully to recreate the success of the Eastwood films with such films a "Dark Water" a remake of
"Honogurai mizu no soko kara". Evidently they did not learn their lesson as now we have "The Eye" a cheep remake of the Hong Kong film "Jian Gui". When will they ever learn?

Yes it is the standard formula artist gets a new set of eyes that contain the memory of the donor. Now she sees dead people and must decipher the reason.

This has been done a lot better many times before. And I am sure this is not the last time. The film passes time but has no great insight. To make it scary they turn the volume up 10 times the voice level and for Blu-ray lovers they have lots of flashy things. Somehow I do not remember her getting her eardrums fixed also; so how come she can hear dead people as well?

Jessica Alba is cute and plays her part well. But not well enough to stop the fast forward button from being pressed.