I finished watching "The Eye" about ten minutes ago and I have to say that is one of the worse films I have seen in a while. It just went from bad to worse. I dont know how someone could call that a horror film.
First off this film is just like any other cookie cutter horror film. The same basic structure that ends up not scaring anyone. First the director shows something scary, then we are introduced to the main character. We figure out the problem and meet the love interest. Then our main character will do some research figure out what the problem is and go solve the mystery. Thus ending happily and better off then when started. Its disgusting. Where is the originality.
The Eye starts out alright. We see some creepy stuff in the hospital and throughout her apartment. I even jumped one or two times. But once Jessica Alba decides to figure out whats going on I lost all sense of what happened. In about ten minutes we went from random creepy shit to Jessica being left in a creepy house in Mexico which at one time had the eye donor living in it. (How do you get an eye donor from Mexico?) Then after everything was figured out they left and saved many lives from a deadly explosion. Hmmm where did the story go?
The direction was pretty good. There were some cool sequences when running through the hallway and hospital. I was very happy to not see low dutch angles like in so many other horror films. There was a good mix of dolly steadi and still shots keeping you on the edge of your seat through these parts. However when we got to Mexico I noticed a few hand held shots that were very out of place. This film was not a hand held type of film. I saw a more fluid cinematic aesthetic throughout the first half and to change that up towards the end made no sense. Also there were a few shots that were goofed quite a bit. I noticed the corners of the lens in almost all of the fisheye shots. Either the DP needed to zoom in to loose that during filming or the editor needed to crop them out. Overall the look of the film was cool. It's too bad the filmmakers weren't working on a decent script otherwise this might have turned out pretty good.
My recommendation is to not even consider this film. Even if you do start you will notice a credit right at the beginning saying "Based on a Chinese film 'the eye'" instantly telling you its going to be bad. Its just another knockoff of Asian cinema. When are American horror filmmakers going to create something original rather than just make copies.
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If you have any suggestions of horror films that would be worth my time, please let me know.
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