Film Excess - Free Ukraine - Stop Putin - End the war NOW!!: The Eye (2008) - French talents Moreau/Palud fail in Hollywood with Asian horror remake

1/26/2018

The Eye (2008) - French talents Moreau/Palud fail in Hollywood with Asian horror remake

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There's something seriously amiss with an eye. On the poster for David Moreau and Xavier Palud's The Eye

A blind, extremely pretty violinist finally gets a chance to have a cornea transplant operation. But problems arise with her newfound sight ... - Ghost kind of problems!

The Eye starts out alright, because its premise, - a person who experiences a corrosion of her reality, - is highly creepy and frightening. Unfortunately the promising ingredients are later wasted:
A barrage of unsuccessful shock moments, flash editing and a climax that doesn't fulfill the premise's scare are among The Eye's chief problems. It also struggles with a protagonist in Jessica Alba (Fantastic Four (2005)), who plays blind and later sight-impaired very convincingly, but who also goes through an awkward romance with her eye specialist here, just as parts of the film's dialog and plot points feel dubious and awkward.
SPOILER The Eye closes down with a final point about Alba's not requiring eyes to see, (her own old useless eyes have apparently at this point been operated back into her eye sockets), - which is just plain silly.
The Eye is written by Sebastian Gutierrez (Gothika (2003)), based on the same-titled 2002 Hong-Kong/Singaporean film by the Pang brothers, and directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud (Them/Ils (2006), both).

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Cost: 12 mil. $
Box office: 56.9 mil. $
= Big hit
[The Eye premiered 31 January (Hollywood) and runs 98 minutes. The Asian film had already been remade once, in India as Naina (2005). Shooting took place in New Mexico, Los Angeles, California and in Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada from February 2007 - ?. The film opened #2, behind fellow new release Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: The Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour, to a 12.4 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another week in the top 5 (#4) and grossed a solid 31.4 mil. $ (55.2 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 3.6 mil. $ (6.3 %) and Spain with 2.8 mil. $ (4.9 %). Moreau has stated dissatisfaction with the finished film and alleged that he was barred from its editing. He returned after a five year break with It Boy (2013), while Palud returned with an episode of XIII: The Series (2011) and theatrically with Blind Man (2012). The Eye is rotten at 22 % with a 4.3/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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