Review – The Eye (2008)

The Asian original was the first movie I ever saw from Netflix, and that’s been awhile. So sadly I don’t recall enough about the Chinese version to make much of a direct comparison, but I remember liking the first round better than this remake. Jessica Alba does an okay job as a blind violinist who has surgery to restore the sight she lost when she was a kid. Unfortunately for her, her donor was a psychic who could see ghosts and predict disasters. The set-up is good enough, if a bit cliché. Unfortunately the picture itself is riddled with questionable logic and depends far too heavily on booga-booga moments. And that’s a real shame. On the rare occasions when it masters a bit of subtlety, it’s not a bad movie. See if desperate