Synopsis
Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.
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Cast
- Jessica AlbaSydney Wells
- Alessandro NivolaDr. Paul Faulkner
- Parker PoseyHelen Wells
- Rade ŠerbedžijaSimon McCullough
- Mia StallardLittle Girl
- Obba BabatundéDr. Haskins
- Danny MoraMiguel
- Rachel TicotinRosa Martinez
- Chloë Grace MoretzAlicia Millstone
- Tamlyn TomitaMrs. Cheung
Recommendations
- 50
Variety
This slick effort is effectively creepsome until it bogs down somewhat in plot explication. - 50
ReelViews
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. - 50
Boston Globe
Their movie is watchable - never more gratuitously so than when Alba is filmed showering and slipping into a tank top. But we've been here before, no? - 50
Chicago Tribune
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. - 42
The A.V. Club
The major problem is the death of a horror film: It's startling, but not particularly scary. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Sacrifices the quietly creepy qualities of the original in favor of ramped-up horror film techniques that by now seem distressingly familiar. - 40
The New York Times
Louder and more literal than its inspiration, The Eye benefits from a spiky performance by Alessandro Nivola as Sydney’s rehabilitation counselor. “Your eyes are not the problem,” he tells her at one point. He is so, so right. - 38
Premiere
A tediously noisesome English-language remake of an Asian horror picture that wasn't any great shakes to begin with.
