My Little Eye

 

 

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I spy with my little eye a "woulda coulda shoulda" horror movie that established a good foundation and then proceeded to build a shoddy structure on top of it. The idea of the story is a good one - not particularly original but good - and all of that wasted potential makes My Little Eye quite a disappointment in the end. The final twenty minutes should have pulsated with suspense and tension - but they didn't, and for a number of reasons. I don't think I'm alone in saying that I could hardly have cared less about any of the characters. Some actual character development would no doubt have helped, but I'm not sure anything could make these people at all interesting. By the time something actually happens on the screen (leading up to the inevitably predictable plot twists), it's difficult to care because the mind numbingly boring first hour is one big cinematic anesthetic that prevents you from caring about anything that might or might not happen.

So here's the setup. Five strangers have landed themselves a spot on a new Internet-based reality show. All they have to do is spend six months together in a house in order to win a million bucks apiece - but if any one of them should leave, they all lose. Webcams will monitor their every move the entire time. Obviously, it's a lot like Big Brother - but even more boring. They have no clue where they are, but it's a pretty big house for five people; they're in the middle of nowhere, but they can spend as much time outside as they want during the day. It's really not that demanding of a gig. After the briefest of introductions, the movie basically starts a week or two before the end of the game. The three guys and two girls are all getting along okay, wondering how big of celebrities they'll be when they get out even as they question why anyone would pay money to watch them for all this time. (As far as I'm concerned, no one in their right mind would pay money to watch these people do anything, let alone sit around doing nothing for months.) With the end now in sight, though, some unusual and increasingly unnerving things begin happening, leaving our characters to question whether or not "the company" is trying to make things more interesting or possibly trying to scare or trick them into losing the game - or if they might really be in danger.

It's a good try by director Marc Evans, but this movie lacks any of the excitement and atmosphere (not to mention actual suspense) it needs in order to succeed. As it is, it's just a cinematic exercise in futility that I will probably have forgotten completely by tomorrow. This isn't some kind of surprise sleeper hit - it's just a plain old sleeper, period.

After the film shows the internet ad of participating at the game,you can pretty much skip about 15 minutes before it becomes interesting(right after the killing of the bird which is a scene where they open a box).The murders in the film are pretty much goryless except for the end shooting which is bloody(looked like they didn't know where else to use all this fake blood that they bought!)Unlike some viewers,i thought that this movie wasn't scary and that the point of view of the camera scenes weren't very effective.There are many loose questions unanswered and
the film never gives us complete satisfaction, either because of
the flawed direction or flawed script.Since most of the scenes are shot in the dark or in low lights,the director problably felt more like sleeping on the job then giving us a first rate film!

This may very well be the worse movie I've seen in a while. The plot, typical horror movie style, kinda interesting. The acting, not oscar worthy but not completely awful... What was missing was a good script... The character development was non existant. In the in I didn't care if anyone died, I just wanted the movie to be over. The only character that had any substance was a jerk and therefore you didn't like him. I actually found myself rooting for the guy because he was the only one real. Now I won't go into the unusal film shots, cutting back in forth, the night shots. I found those annoying but I understand the 'art' behind them. But the screen writer for this needs to go back to Scriptwriting 101 and reread the section on character development.... I love horror movies, this one is not horrifying in anyway shape or form. Except maybe the writing.

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