Friday, February 1, 2008

The Eye

Jessica Alba plays Sydney who lost her sight at 5 years old during a firecracker accident with her sister.  Her sister has tried to get her a new donor for so many years but Sydney's body continues to reject the donors, until now.
The surgery is a complete success according to the doctors but shortly there after Sydney begins to see things that couldn't possibly be there.  She's in the hospital and the lady in the bed next to her gets up and follows a strange shadow into the hall.  Sydney follows and the lady then haunts Sydney until the shadow takes her away. 
Sydney continues to see shadowy spirits and dead people and it's driving her insane.  Doctors tell her everything is fine and that it's just her mind not processing information properly since she hasn't had all 5 senses in like 20 years. Sydney insists that this isn't normal and she goes to Mexico to find out who donated the eyes that she is now looking through.  This person that passed on is trying to tell her something about how she died and important information that Sydney needs to find out. 
Going into this one I was expecting a piece of shit movie along the lines of One Missed Call.  I was somewhat surprised finding that my overall view of this one wasn't that bad.  While I hated Jessica Alba in Awake, and her acting is sub-par overall, she did an OK job in this one putting it at just about average.  2/3 of the way through this film I started thinking that this movie was in a lot of ways like the Character from Dean Koontz' character Odd Thomas and the Bodachs that he sees through his adventures.  If you haven't read the books then you have no Idea what I'm talking about.  It is a somewhat scary one and it will make you jump a few times. 
6.5/10
Mild Thumbs Up
Next Potential Review:  (fools gold/roscoe jenkins)  god help us all....  The product can't get any worse.

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