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Lee Sin-Je,
Lee Sin-Je,
Lawrence Chou,
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Danny Pang,
Oxide Pang Chun,
Oxide Pang Chun,
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: Lions Gate
: Foreign, Horror, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Ghosts
: 98 min.
: Thai, Cantonese
: English
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A corneal transplant sets the stage for terror in this supernatural thriller from directors Danny and Oxide Pang. Blind from the age of two, 20-year-old Mann (Angelica Lee) now has a chance to reclaim her sense of sight thanks to recent breakthroughs in technology. At first elated to have her vision restored, Mann's joy soon turns to paralyzing fear when she begins to see mysterious dark figures which foreshadow sudden, shocking deaths. Subsequently distraught over seeing Ling (Chutcha Rujinanon), the previous owner of the corneas, when she peers into the mirror, Mann's disturbing images slowly begin to chip away at her sanity until she has no choice but to track Ling's past and solve the horrifying mystery that plagues her. Traveling to Ling's former home in a small Northern Thailand village, Mann learns that Ling was driven to suicide after suffering similar visions preceding a tragic fire. When hundreds of the mysterious black figures descend upon Mann just as she is about to leave Thailand, she realizes that a horrific tragedy is set to unfold unless she can summon the courage to take action and use her supernatural gift of sight to alter the future. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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| Eye've Seen it Before
by Brujaria
September 14, 2003 - 11:44 PM PDT
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1 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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I was hoping that the hype surrounding this film might actually hold some water, but it looks like HK cinema is still dead.
First off, you know exactly what is going to happen in the movie long before they get around to telling you what is going on. Nothing happens until 15+ minutes into the movie, but long before you reach that point you'll have every plot point down, except maybe the very end, which I admit I didn't see coming (no pun intended), but was so corny and lame that the surprise wasn't a good one.
The whole movie is one of those "let's count the rip-offs" kind of affairs where every few minutes you'll get title tourett's syndrome "Sixth Sense!", "Visible Secret!", "The Ring!", "Body Parts!", "Terminator 2!", etc. (yes, there really is a T2 / ID4-esque scene at the end). They actually steal the deleted subway scene from Visible Secret.
The "dramatic" parts are really flat and go on longer than they should in an effort to be like a "serious" American film. Long scenes of the lead sobbing are total award fodder and I'm guessing that's what they were after.
Unlike normal, I'd say this actually would be a good candidate for a remake, except it's already been done. You'd have to completely change the movie around to the point where it really wouldn't really resemble the original at all.
To it's credit, there are some interesting camera shots. The title sequence is pretty cool too, but it is a little too reminiscent of the scene in Nightmare on Elm Street where the impression of Freddy's face and hands push out of a wall above Langenkamp's bed. Still it is kinda cool with the titles appearing in Braille and wiping into English (or rather Roman) text.
It doesn't totally suck, but it's certainly not good.
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| OK M Night Shyamalan wannabe
by ColonelKong
August 29, 2003 - 8:25 AM PDT
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2 out of 4 members found this review helpful
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This is one of those movies that I didn't exactly dislike and that had some good things in it, but that I wouldn't really advise others to go out of their way to see. Danny and Oxide Pang are talented filmmakers and worth keeping an eye (no pun intended!) on, but I think that this is one of their lesser efforts, I really preferred their previous film Bangkok Dangerous to this one (that film had a deaf main character, The Eye has a formerly blind one).
The Eye has a couple of pretty effectively creepy scenes, it's skillfully photographed and edited, and the Pang brothers found a lead actress with a great expressive face, but I think the script probably could've used another draft or two. One problem that I had with the film is that it has an essentially very passive main character, Ringu had a much more proactive female protagonist, which is one of the reasons I think Ringu is a stronger film than this one. I'd have to go into pretty heavy spoiler territory to discuss other ways that I think the script could've been improved.
A Tom Cruise-produced Hollywood remake of this film is currently in the works, I probably won't be in a big hurry to see it unless a filmmaker I'm a big fan of is involved. If I were Tom Cruise, I'd find a different Asian horror movie to remake, or better yet, find a really great horror novel or short story that nobody has ever thought of filmming. |
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