After 18 years of blindness, 20-year-old violinist Wong Kar Mun (Lee Sin-Je) regains her vision when she undergoes a corneal transplant. However, she got more than what she bargained for when she realized she could even see ghosts.
Is it a horror, a thriller, a tragedy, a disaster pic, or a romance? It's never really sure, but either way it limps along through various dips into different genres and often times is scrambled and confused...
Though perhaps not the greatest thing since sliced eyeballs, The Eye is definitely worth a look, or even a double-take.
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
February 09, 2008
'The Eye' could be worth seeing as a matinee or rental.
Houston Chronicle
July 11, 2003
To put all the pieces in place, the Pangs have to cut a few corners in logic, but the story is generally effective if not exactly original.
Urban Cinefile
March 06, 2008
Fans of the genre may still find the film as creepy and scary as it is intended to be, although it relies for so much of its scare-power on sudden bursts of flame accompanied by fearsome noise, or the appearance of ghostly death figures
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With its spooky first-person rendering of Mun's experience -- blurred, tentative, disoriented -- The Eye creates a world of constant and imminent upheaval.
