the enlightened one

Lame, very very lame, Nov 29 2003

I was hoping 'The Eye' was going to be fresh filmmaking and would bring something new to the overly cliche Horror/Mystery genre. This film has been recommended to me several times by others, and the reviews it's been getting by critics have been over the top. I was left unfulfilled and severely disappointed by the time the end credits rolled on screen. In fact, the film hardly leaves me any desire to see the newly rewritten Hollywood version next year.

There are a lot of problems with 'The Eye'. The pacing seems oddly clunkish at times. I was hoping the story would take off within the first 30 minutes, but it never actually does. See, I'm not going to rag on the small problems, like… Read more