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Summary: What? They actually made a movie of that???
Review: ....that's what I was thinking at the mind-numbing end when I realized I'd just sat through a two-hour (almost) cinematic tribute to a story with no redeeming value whatsoever. The story should have worked only if made into a comedy, but seems the makers had some outlandish notion that there was uplifting drama here. Some customer reviews seem to reflect a similar attitude, but as for me I was hoping throughout for something like someone slipping some ex-lax into Ashley Judd's coffee, for that would make things happen more interesting than anything in the actual movie.
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Summary: Romantic Obession
Review: I've owned this movie for 2 years now, and have come to the final conclusion that this is my all time favourite film. As close to perfection that I've seen in such a long time. The musical score provides a brilliant "manic" back-drop. The direction--simply superb. You have to be a pretty lifeless person to not be drawn into the plot, a plot which thickens with every passing second. The acting is superior, you really get a feel for the characters inner workings. It's very easy to sympathesize with their perspectives.
Regardless of the emotional wreckage and devious mindset surrounding the leads, I found their portrayals most enjoyable. All the while being drawn in, you want feel for them. You simply will not relate to this film if you don't understand a life of serious downs--all the while trying to keep an optimistic eye. It's the pleasures and wayward distractions that make life exciting after all.
Now the ending is a bit abrupt, and you find all emotions coming to a halt. But that is part of the effect the movie leaves on you. Making you want more, wanting more answers, wanting more emotional fullfillment--though yet you wouldn't want a single thing changed...
The critics and many average reviewers alike slam this movie with mass amounts of pesimistic negativity. They obviously missed the point and really don't know how dreary life can be.
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Summary: Too confusing
Review: I must admit, I am a huge fan of Ewan McGregor and when I saw this movie for the first time I was hooked. But then I showed it to my friends and they weren't too happy with it. And then I showed it to my mom and she didn't like it either. The plot was too confusing. You have to know a lot of psychological stuff in order to understand this movie. When I watched it for the first time, I only watched it because Ewan was in it, but then I watched it a second and third time and I found it to be quite boring. The only part that I actually like(which happens to be my fave part)is when they sing that song "I Wish You Love" and when Ewan's "in love with the wall" so to speak. If you are absoulutely desperate and want to see a movie with Ewan in it, go see this, because that's how I was.(Also because my stupid Blockbuster didn't have any of Ewan's movies, preferably Nightwatch so I went to J.C. Flicks and rented this instead) Only rent if you are completely desperate.
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Summary: hmm
Review: This movie has to be the most bizarre thing I have ever seen. But, I loved it to death. The only way to like this movie though, is to be VERY open-minded. People who did not like it, all I can say is they were not open to the concept of the movie. It was fantastic, and Ewan McGregor was wonderful. He is a spectacular actor. I could watch it a 100 times.
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Summary: One of the worst movies I've ever seen
Review: If I could, I would not give this film a single star, but that category is not an option. I went into this film wanting to like it. I've greatly enjoyed the actors in most of their other works - Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, Genevieve Bujold - and I assumed that with such a great cast, there'd be a great story. I hoped, I watched, and with each minute the story became progressively worse. I hung on til the better end, hoping that something would happen to redeem the characters and the actors who played them, but maybe that was the point - to see how low someone could go. It was terribly disappointing and depressing, and I wish someone would have told me about it before I took a gamble on it.
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Summary: What a bag of crap...
Review: This had to be one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The worst part of this movie were the woefully undeveloped characters of McGregor and Judd. McGregor's character has some sick and strange obsession with Judd's serial killer. The man lost a daughter. So what? This does not explain the reason he follows Judd around during the entire movie. He protects her several times throughout the film but he also nearly Kills Her! Judd's black widow serial killer is never really explained well either. Was she sexually abused, did her mommy hit her and call her names? Any thing that could have explained her character's reasons for being who she was were left out. McGregor and Judd were not to blame for this. Their performances were the best they could have been for this trainwreck. The fault for this disaster lies with the director and writer who translated this story film. With a better director and writer this might have been a taut psychological thriller.
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Summary: Sensual plot, stunning filmography
Review: I thought this story speaks to real life with theatrical beauty and poetic atmosphere. Ewan as a secret agent fell in love with a beautiful, mysterious, and psychologically scarred serial killer(Ashley). It's a love with little future, but at the same time extremely beautiful through director's poetic camera angle. I was breath-taken by this film.
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Summary: Misdunderstood Beauty
Review: After reading several reviews of EYE, I noticed a disheartening trend, people were simply not understanding any of it and that people were panning it without any logic whatsoever. The film is quite excellent in fact. First, the film is absolutely beautiful to watch and watching it in letterbox form is a must. Second, the plot is more than just some Private Eye falling in love with one of his assignments, it involves the complexity and dynamic of two deeply hurt individuals who need each other even though they have never spoken with each other. I won't go into much more detail because I know it is worth seeing so I recommend it to anyone who has cared about another person.
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Summary: Loved it!
Review: I loved the movie so much, that what I would like to know who is the artist singing I wish you love??? I wish you blue bird.....It's a woman.
The movie was suspenseful and kept me hooked every step of the way! I've seen it several times.Please help me figure out who sings the song.
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Summary: It does matter who plays a role.
Review: ...it protrays a wicked serial killer but spends most of its time focusing on how someone might sympathize with her, not on either condemning her or objectively portraying the grisly nature of her crimes. There are no grounds of sympathy for her, but the movie seems to portray her as somehow understandably worthy of sympathy, by running by us the VAGUEST suggestions that something from her past "made her what she is". But leaving that something so vague just compounds the already gross impertinance of pointing to any "reason" why anyone should treat her sympathetically. She even seduces and kills a blind man, for heaven's sake! Secondly, when we look at good and worthy movie portrayals of mass murderers, we can be confident that the actor IS acting, for pete's sake. When Anthony Hopkins played Hannibal Lecter, that WAS acting, we all know that, don't we? He was above suspicion that he the actor was just acting out his ultimate fantasy. If a movie is to be made about a female serial killer of men, it might have a chance (with better writing than this!) to succeed similarly if cast in the killer role were some versatile actress like Jodie Foster or Laura Dern. Then we could know that it was acting. But take an actress who prides herself on a self-chosen nickname of "ball-buster" and cast her in that role, and it seems less like acting than playing out her fondest fantasy! That is what makes this so grisly and macabre. If such an actress is to play a killer at all, let's at least make it seem like acting by having her kill some women as well as men, or maybe having her hijack a plane with both men and women on board, or let her pressure-boil someone's pet rabbit. But this movie must be a sort of one-up-manship that intentionally blurs the distinction between performer and role. I've sometimes liked one-up-mansnip when it was comedy, but this is just sickening. We were badly in need of seeing Ashley Judd prove that she has a human soul above the haunting suspicion that her movie roles are a terrifying window into her psyche. I still hold out hope that she will do that. But this movie is reallly a downturn in any road to that happening, just when we least needed it.
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