The Eye

Starring: Aba, Jessica and Alba, Jessica

Product Description

Sydney Wells (Alba) is an accomplished, independent, Los Angeles-based concert violinist. She is also blind, and has been so since a childhood tragedy. As our story opens, Sydney undergoes a double corneal transplant, a surgery she has waited her whole life to have, and her sight is restored. After the surgery, neural ophthalmologist Dr. Paul Faulkner (Nivola) helps Sydney with the difficult adjustment, and with the support of her older sister Helen (Posey), Sydney learns to see again. But Sydney's happiness is short-lived as unexplainable shadowy and frightening images start to haunt her. Are they a passing aftermath of her surgery, Sydney's mind adjusting to sight, a product of her imagination, or something horrifyingly real? As Sydney's family and friends begin to doubt her sanity, Sydney is soon convinced that her anonymous eye donor has somehow opened the door to a terrifying world only she can now see.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 031398242369
• Release Date: January 2010
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: Lions Gate-Sphe
• Director: Moreau, David
• Starring: Aba, Jessica, Alba, Jessica
• Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

Ground out another cheap remake.

This must be the latest movie-making trend. Back in the sixties, they made a lot of cheap Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns that made money. Little did the public know that the stories were borrowed from J-a-p-a-n. Now someone is trying pitifully to recreate the success of the Eastwood films with such films as “Dark Water,” a remake of “Honogurai Mizu no Soko kara”. They did not learn their lesson, as now we have “The Eye,” a cheap remake of the Hong Kong film "Jian Gui". When will they ever learn? Yes, it is the standard formula artist who gets a new set of eyes that contains the memory of the donor. Now she sees dead people and must decipher the reason. This has been done a lot better many times before. And I am sure this is not the last time. The film passes the time but has no great insight. To make it scary, they turn the volume up 10 times the voice level, and for Blu-ray lovers, they have lots of flashy things. Somehow, I do not remember her getting her eardrums fixed, either; so how come she can hear dead people as well? Jessica Alba is cute and plays her part well. But not well enough to stop the fast-forward button from being pressed.