Smartorhypo
Highly Overrated But Still Good
Konterr
Brilliant and touching
Rosie Searle
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
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Blessed with the gift of sight after a successful corneal transplant operation, a blind girl gradually realises that her new eyes also allow her to see the wandering, lost souls of dead people in this Hong Kong horror movie. The film has some striking similarities to 'The Sixth Sense', however, there is actually much more in the way of character development here and Angelica Lee provides a fantastic turn as the fragile protagonist. Particularly interesting are her early scenes in which she begins to re-learn visual language and visual cues; a great film could have been made out of this transition back to sight (having been blind for around two decades) alone. That said, the horror element works fairly well with some eerie dissolve editing as her bedroom keeps changing appearance and excellent use of out-of-focus shots and mobile camera-work. There are a few jolts but the film is more veered towards the plain creepy, such as her having elongated conversations before it is revealed that she is talking to someone not there. The film loses its way a little towards the end with the whole final third set in Thailand never quite gelling all that well. Weak as this section may be though, it is capped off with one surefire memorable final scene that makes a perfect bookend to how the film opens, plus while the quality of the narrative varies throughout, Angelica Lee is never less than divine.
Shawn Watson
Ghosts are perfect fodder for horror movies, but they are rarely depicted as chilling or creepy. Most ghost movies are filled with stingers, CGI, and are neutered by a PG-13 rating. The Eye, however, creeps up on you (pun intended) and will make the hairs on your arms stand on end.A young girl, blind from the age of 2, is given a cornea transplant and slowly adjusts to being able to see again. But she sees beyond our world and is haunted by the spirits of the dead in her Hong Kong neighborhood. The movement, behavior, and appearances of the ghosts are just mesmerizing. THIS is how you do ghost movies. I also liked the shadow people, moving as blurs, guiding the recently dead into the afterlife. Twin writer/directors Danny and Oxide Pang have pulled off one of the best horror films in the past decade and have done it with more integrity than M. Night Shyamalan.The Eye is not a slick, high-key film. It is shot in a rough, gritty texture that reminds me of late-80s horror such as Hellraiser and Paperhouse. It's a far more appropriate and engaging aesthetic than anything offered by Platinum Dunes or Dark Castle. There is a Hollywood remake, made in 200 but I couldn't care less about it. The 2002 HK version is the way to go.
Rohail Ali
Writing my first ever review here on IMDb, because this movie really don't let me to sit quietly, Well "The Eye" is a movie which really holds a genre of Horror, I'd never seen a movie like this before which really scared me & tend me to pause & take a break several times during its playback, It's first time i really felt scared by watching this movie alone! Specially the scene when the girl was in the art class & a ghost appear & said "Why are you sitting on my chair?" Will highly recommend this movie for horror maniacs! Congratulations to Hongkong cinema for creating such an amazing movie! It's really something which i'd always expected from hundred's of Hollywood horror movies but unfortunately most of them are purely based on some hill side cannibals, zombies, or a group of psycho mass murderer's.
Jackson Booth-Millard
It is only after seeing the trailer for the Jessica Alba remake that I found out there was an original Japanese version, and this is it. Basically, blind since the age of two, eighteen year old Wong Kar Mun (Angelica Lee, or Lee Sin-Je) in Hong Kong submits to a surgery of cornea transplantation, i.e. being given new donated eyes, allowing her to have her sight back. Recovering from the surgery, she gets more than she bargained for when she starts seeing apparitions, i.e. dead people, and some of these ghosts are pretty unfriendly. So she begins a journey, with the help of Dr. Wah (Lawrence Chou) to find out who donated her new eyes and get rid of these horrible visions. In the end however, she goes to pretty drastic lengths to get rid of seeing the ghosts, I can't remember much, I just know there is an explosive crash, and her eyes end up draining blood. Also starring Chutcha Rujinanon as Ling, Candy Lo as Yee (Mun's Sister), Pierre Ping as Dr. Eak, Yin Ping Ko as Mun's grandmother and Edmund Chen as Dr. Lo. The effects and story, as far as I remember, were quite effective, and it was a stylish psychological and visceral horror thriller. Very good!
