LITERAL REMAINS

Written by Sebastian Gutierrez

There is no reason for movies like this except to eyeball leading ladies like Jessica Alba.
In The Eye, for whatever reason, the aforementioned Alba plays a classical violinist blind since childhood. A donor has become available and she undergoes surgery to restore her sight. It isn’t long before she begins having visions. To sum it up, this is The Sixth Sense crossed with The Mothman Prophecies with a little Final Destination sprinkled in the mix. And it is not as good as any of those movies, even for just plain guilty pleasure.

The Eye is a boring Americanization of a Japanese horror film in a long line of sub-par Americanized remakes of Japanese horror films. What has The Ring wrought? God help us all. At least with this movie there is no long-black haired chalk white chick harrying victims down. The Eye does have some little Asian boy lurking the hallways looking for his homework or book or something–believe me, it doesn’t matter.

It apparently required two directors to suck the life out this steaming pile, but it only takes one person to not watch it. Friends don’t let friends watch The Eye.

1 out of 5

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