The Eye

Review by Jason Gaston

In the never amusing race for studios to take decent Asian horror and make it stupid, we’ve now got an American remake of The Eye, an extremely well shot and plotted horror movie which is now, sadly, none of those things in great measure.

The movie stars the tragically untalented hottie, Jessica Alba, as the recipient of a cornea transplant that allows her to see for the first time… the trouble with that is the eyes she was given used to belong to a psychic and now, she sees dead people and must follow the clues to solve the mystery of whose eyes she’s seeing with.

I was already at a disadvantage as I sat through this movie having already seen the fairly enjoyable import many years ago so basically, I knew what was coming and nothing shocked me. Generally, though, I don’t think this movie was capable of shocking anyone as the material was pretty heavy-handed and telegraphed any plot twists ahead of time.

What’s worse, they changed the ending! They made it light, happy… American. Basically, everything the original movie wasn’t.

God bless her too, Jessica Alba was just dead weight in this movie. She’s like a set of rims on a car, nice to look at but useless in the long run. No one can be this proverbially happy all the time. Even when she’s under stress and scared out of her wits, it’s fake. .

I suppose I’m being a little unfair. The movie is entertaining enough, but that’s the thing… it’s only enough. It never rises above an occasional shock scare to communicate a genuine sense of horror or fear… other than the fear that the movie doesn’t seem to know when to end.

Eye was disappointed.