Rama’s SCREEN

Here’s what I think should’ve been the narration for this movie’s trailer: In a world… where seeing is believing… one room full of audiences will finally believe… once and for all… that seeing Jessica Alba believing what she is seeing… is definitely not a good thing to spend time and money for the weekend…. this February… you will not believe your eyes… how despicable this movie is.

A young, blind violinist named Sydney (Alba) gets a corneal transplant. At first her new vision is blurry the world around her is unfamiliar. But then she starts seeing thing she shouldn’t, things that are belong to the donor. Now to end this nightmare, she must figure out the message behind the things she can experience with her eyes.

Ya know… after witnessing the greats like The Sixth Sense, The Descent or the recent The Orphanage, something like The Eye feels more like a joke than a horror movie. Even the twist at the end, when she finally figures out what her capabilities ask her to do, seems like a rip off of Final Destination movies.

Don’t even get me started on how terrible the acting in this movie is. Sitting through Jessica Alba’s performance is like listening to an instrument that’s never tuned and off key, played over and over again. Not to mention the boring minutes between each supposedly scary moments, you’d think that the scene’s going to build up to something good but all of a sudden she’s back in a safe area without you knowing what the hell happened with that one scene a second ago?!

The filmmaker focuses too much on shock attacks that have no purpose whatsoever. Alba’s character would just be staring at something and then Boom! A ghost appears for one tiny eenie beetie second and then disappears and that happens again frequently throughout the rest of the movie.
The visuals are awful. They got these ghosts that are supposed to be some kind of angels of death that take away those who are about to die. Those ghosts look like the creatures from I Am Legend but made out of ugly dark smoke.

For a girl who’s never seen a single thing in her life and then she can, she doesn’t look that terrified at all at the freaky things she’s witnessing before her new eyes.
Remember that commercial in a theater a couple years ago about silencing your cell phone? The one where director Sydney Pollack was yelling at a bad actor who just got dumped by his girlfriend and Sydney was mad at him because he’s not capable of showing emotion.
I feel like going up to Jessica Alba and scream at his face, “Show some fear, Damnit!”

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