Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Review wanted: "THE EYE"

my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

»	Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE » Community » Film Handlers' Movie Reviews » Review wanted: "THE EYE"

Author

Topic: Review wanted: "THE EYE"

Claude S. Ayakawa
Film God

Posts: 2738
From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA
Registered: Aug 2002

posted 06-22-2003 11:38 PM

"THE EYE" just opened at The Art House at Restaurant Row" operated by Wallace Theatres here in Honolulu and I am very interested in seeing this movie. I did get to read one newspaper review and it was very favorable. The basic theme of this Chinese film is "I see dead people" and tell the story of how a young woman who was blind since childhood finally has her vision restored and the first thing she see is a ghost of a person who had just died in the same hospital where she was recovering from eye surgery.

-Claude

| IP: Logged

Brad Haven
Master Film Handler

Posts: 300
From: fremantle, West Australia
Registered: Aug 2001

posted 06-23-2003 08:12 AM

I only screened this (last night), but saw bits and pieces.
Some great moments, but my friend that came out said that there were some really boring parts to the film as well.
It looked and sounded great.
My friend also told me that it borrowed heavily from THE SIXTH SENSE and THE RING. when i asked if it was worth catching, he said NO!
I believe this film was made by the same people that made BANGCOCK DANGEROUS, which was much better!
i hope this helps?
screening as part of the www.revelationfilmfest.org

| IP: Logged

Mark Ogden
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 943
From: Little Falls, N.J.
Registered: Jun 99

posted 06-23-2003 08:54 AM

If you enjoy horror films, then by all means see The Eye, which begins with one of the best phony loop loss/film burns I've ever seen (why it does, I don't know, it seems like they just put it in as an afterthought).

Basically, a young woman goes into the hospital for a cornea transplant, and when the bandages come off she finds that she is able to see both ghosts and these other shadowy figures that escort your spirit away after you die. She convinces a friendly doctor to help her out, and they go off to Thailand to find the original donor. There are some good scare moments (the ghosts realize that the woman can see them, and some of them are pissed off), and the final scene of the aftermath of a tanker truck accident is very well conceived and executed. Yes, there are some dull expository spots, but no more than in any other film of this kind. And yes, it is very derivative, the film borrows from The Sixth Sense, Ghost, The Beast With Five Fingers, et al. The young woman who plays the lead is a very good actress, in fact all the acting is pretty good. All in all, it's pretty well made. I'm glad I saw it, and I would recommend it to any fan of the horror/ghost story genre.

| IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

Printer-friendly view of this topic

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.