The Eye: Critic Reviews

The Eye is the latest Western deconstruction of a successful Asian horror movie and it is louder and more literal than its inspiration.

The movie is watchable -- never more gratuitously so than when Alba is filmed showering and slipping into a tank top. But we've been here before, no?

The most vivid aspect of The Eye is its poster image, that of a huge female eye with a human hand gripping the lower lid from the inside. The least vivid aspect is the way Jessica Alba delivers a simple line of expository dialogue.

An effective if redundant fright flick.

Effectively creepsome until it bogs down somewhat in plot explication.

Seeing isn't believing.

The script is credited to Sebastian Gutierrez, who penned Snakes On a Plane, a movie that knew how to have scares and sex and a bit of fun. What happened?

When it comes to showing something to end the second-rate horror drought, The Eye is blind.

Yet another inferior remake of an Asian horror film.

Jessica Alba sees dead people in blah horror film.

It creates a good atmosphere, but no tension. The movie is just not memorable.

It's all based on the creepy little Chinese film Gin gwai, an atmospheric spine-tingler that, we're sad to say, is considerably more frightening than this tame effort.

Terrible direction, forgettable performances, and writers who are so faithful to the source material that they even pick up the original film's plot holes...

...ultimately establishes itself as the most effective endeavor of its kind since 2005's Dark Water.

...it doesn't leave us with much more than a feeling that we've been there and seen it all before.

A terrifying treat for horror junkies, as Alba's nervous wreck visionary wards off being attacked by apartments and restaurants, while dealing with a bad case of occult organ rejection.

There are a couple of effective scares, but this feels like a retread too far. Enough with J-horror already - let's do something new.

Alba simply isn't good enough to carry this kind of movie, and lacks the presence to counter the major deficiencies of a weak and feeble ghost story.

With every twist of the second-hand plot telegraphed far in advance, you don't need to be clairvoyant to see where this is going.

One can't turn a blind eye to such conspicuous failings.

Lionsgate has delivered a solid PG-13 horror film that's both entertaining and suspenseful... and for those of you who don't like it, there will be more SAW on October 24.

The latest American remake of an Eastern import in which the thrills have been hopelessly squandered in translation, replaced with distracting, rapid-fire camerawork and thunderous bumps in the night that reflect a kind of creative desperation.

it could have been worse

Transforming Asian horror into American horror isn't so bad when the filmmakers respect the source material.

t probably goes without saying that the self-involved, privileged Sydney would pay scant attention to the violence and poverty that make up life in Ana's pueblo.