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Summary: Eye of the Beholder
Review: To be perfectly honest I think that "Eye of the Beholder" is my favorite movie, but before you send me hate mail just let me explain a few things to you. Okay when I first saw the movie my reactions were,"...What...?" I had no idea what was going on and quite honestly I did not care. That my friend, was because I gave up on the movie. "Eye of the Beholder" is a test for your intellectual skills. The first 15 miniutes were easy to follow becuase Stephan Elliot wanted his audience to be interested and curious. The Eye, (Ewan Mcgregor) was sent to spy on his bosses son whos been stealing money from his father, While following him he observes a women by the name of Joanna Eris. (Ashley Judd) The Eye becomes facinated by Joanna and starts to follow in her foot prints. After that scene people just did not follow the story or get it, and I completely understand, but folks don't give up !!! Okay I am a big fan of this movie and it took me 4 times of watching it to finaly understand the ending Okay so it seems that The Eye is madly in love with Joanna Eris, and that him following her for ten years is...Somewhat romantic if you will, but if you payed close attention you would of noticed that The Eye lost a daughter, and Joanna lost a father (HMMMMM) So with that in mind you have to look at each situation carefully... I thought that, if someone can make a movie that has more then one ending possability that can keep you guessing then that person deserves an oscar. Same with the cast for not messing up the story and keeping the ending hidden for the audience to figure out fo themselves... I would really appreciate mail from those of you who have any questions about "Eye of the Beholder" because I have seen this movie many times and I can answer any questions. So I suggest giving it another chance and see if you can catch any new information that was not clear to you the first time you watched it...
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Summary: I wish You Love...
Review: I wanted to see this movie since it came out on video but I wasn't old enough. I know, crappy excuse but anyway. I have and I've watched it three times, but considering who stars it, Ewan McGregor, it could watch it over and over again, memorizing it scene by scene, line by line. And the song and music. Totally awesome. Ewan and Ashley have an intoxicating History. Ashley's character by the way, I just feel so sorry for her and Ewan, God, he truly is a Guardian Angel. So, I figure, maybe when I go to college, I'll make sure I have this one on my shelf.
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Summary: Plotless, Arthouse Junk masquerading as a Mainstream Film.
Review: What a Sad, Sad Waste. "Eye of the Beholder" has Two Rapidly Up-and-coming Actors (Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd) in the leads, enough Visual Style to fill 3 films, and a great set up that looks like it should lead to a great film... It doesn't. The Film hits a Crossroad at about the 30 Minute mark, and the Director (Stefan Elliot) takes the Arthouse Route instead of the Mainstream Route... A route which leads the film absolutely Nowhere. The non-existent plot gets Bogged down with Crap performances, Overkill on the Directors part and a total Lack of Tension, Thrills or Direction. Even Dialogue seems to have been cut, all for the sake of the Directors Warped Vision. The Film ends up looking like a Long running 70's TV Series with Episodes Missing here and there. The Actors are all very talented and they deserve Much better material. Ewan seems Bored and Embarrassed, which is forgivable, as so would any actor in his role. Ashley is actually Quite Good, she has a Sympathetic role which comes across well and allows her to show a lot of Emotion. In the end, it's Jason Priestly who Steals the Show. He proves himself to be quite a Versatile Actor and he nearly makes the film worthwhile. "Eye of the Beholder" still gets a 3 out of 5, because the first 40 minutes are genuinely Interesting, Jason Priestly gives a Very Cool performance and Ashley Judd looks Great. Apart from all that, it's all down hill.
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Summary: This movie was horrible
Review: The plot went nowhere and made absolutely no sense at all. Why was he following her? What does his daughter have to do with any of this? I was waiting for some sort of "breakthrough" scene that explained everything and it never came. When it ended I said "That's it?" My husband summed it up very nicely though when he said "I wish I could have that hour and a half of my life back."
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Summary: I wish the rating system had a zero star option!
Review: I was so excited. The movie had a great start. And then, the first murder was tension filled and shocking. But after that, the whole thing fell apart. I kept trying to figure out where this was going and in the end I asked myself, is that all there is! The central idea of the movie had so many possibilities that I feel were wasted. I was not impressed.
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Summary: Please don't make the mistake I made
Review: I rented this and was let down. The movie doesn't really build the characters so I ended up watching this spy following this woman and I really didn't care what happened. This seemed very shallow to me and didn't have any great romance or action to make up for lack of substance.
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Summary: Worst movie I've seen in the past year
Review: A lot of bad movies have been released over hyped and over rated-but this is easily the worst of them. The story never really goes anywhere, which might work in a comedy--but this isn't a comedy. A great actor (McGregor) and a good actress (Judd) wasted in a horrible story. Alan Smithee could have done it better!!! Maybe it would have been better in Japanese, as I didn't understand it anyway. I watched this movie with my wife and my mother-and none of us could believe how bad it was. My daughter and her husband watched it later and felt the same. Five for five in the thumbs down department, and we all love watching movies!
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Summary: Eye don't know...
Review: The only thing comprehensible about "Eye of the Beholder" is the cliched title and that is in the context of the cliche and not this bizarre and entirely too complicated plot. Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd star, both are fine actors, but this story is a perfect waste of their talents. Fans of these two would be better off seeing Star Wars Episode I and Double Jeopardy
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Summary: Apt title for such an ambiguous movie...
Review: The value of this movie is truly in the eye of the beholder; I suspect you have to want to like it to like it. That said, I do think that it is a highly unusual and even enjoyable film that had some remarkably bad things happen to it: for instance, the action/suspense oriented trailer that was UTTERLY misleading. This film is a psychodrama, not a thriller. As a result, the majority of audiences who watched it were bored to tears waiting for the action to start, as well as infinitely downed by the moody script and art direction. Eye candy perhaps, but brain candy it ain't. The main complaint I've heard is, "It makes no sense." This is true, unfortunately; and I didn't realize until I read the book how much of the 'meat' of the story was cut out to make the movie film-friendly -- one thing that bothers me was that Ewan McGregor was chosen for a role that ought to have been played by a man a good 15-20 years older, whose long-lost daughter would actually have been in her early twenties. Thus, the displaced fatherly emotions that the book centered around were warped into almost a love story in the movie, which I thought was a mistake. It makes less sense, in a story where you need all of the plot points you can get. Reasons to watch this film: the beautifully hypnotic combination of the soundtrack and cinematography. Gifted performances (often by incidental characters -- k.d. lang, Jason Priestly, Patrick Bergen, and Genevieve Bujold plug a surprising amount of life and color into the movie). The remarkable way that the film, the characters, and the audience are forced in sympathy to gradually lose touch with reality. And the sheer fun of watching the makeup, hairdressing, and costuming crew wreak havoc on Ashley Judd as she changes her identity in scene after scene.
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Summary: Focused
Review: Focused My boyfriend and I disagree about this movie. He believes that the detective/PI was actually her long lost father. I don't see how he came to that conclusion but my view is that he was trying to make up for loosing his daughter many years before and would go to any length to protect her from herself. I have to watch it again to catch the things that I missed the first time. I found it profoundly disturbing and I like it for that reason.
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