The Eye

A quirkily efficient genre exercise that knows exactly where and when to administer its cattle-prod shivers.

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.

Unfortunately, the final act (the Mexico sequences) illustrate where to take a ghost story if you want to exchange old-fashioned horror for a grilled cheese sandwich.

The major problem is the death of a horror film: It's startling, but not particularly scary.

Sacrifices the quietly creepy qualities of the original in favor of ramped-up horror film techniques that by now seem distressingly familiar.

A tediously noisesome English-language remake of an Asian horror picture that wasn't any great shakes to begin with.

The entire movie is an object lesson in diminishing returns: of nagging shock cuts and blaring sound cues used as indiscriminately as joy buzzers; of “look out behind you!” scares that wouldn’t make a Cub Scout flinch; of a blurry visual scheme that was far more terrifying in "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," where it sought empathy rather than empty sensation.

It's actually not a bad remake at all. The acting was not bad, the movie was entertaining and the movie was well made. If it wasn't fort he original japanese movie, this movie would definitely not have that bad of a reputation.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Not as bad as it could be. But its not nearly as good as could be either.

It's basically the same as the original but is a thousand times more exaggerated. The original is more natural to make you believe more in the story, since the remake makes it all far-fetched, unrealistic. It's decent, but only for a change, the original is better. Hopefully we've got the beautiful Jessica Alba collaborating with the look of the film. The story is interesting and plausible, has some good scenes of shock, although not being many and not giving so afraid and the performances are reasonable. Jessica Alba played fairly better than I expected.

Terrible remake and goes to show that some films which make good ghost stories are better off seen in the original format. Hopefully Hollywood will spares us remakes of The Eye 2 and Eye Infinity.