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Eye of the Beholder

Eye of the Beholder

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Can I have these 114 minutes of my life back please?
Review: This movie ranks right up there with "Eyes Wide Shut" as one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I could not even begin to tell you what this movie was about...what is wrong with these people????

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Two psychotics find a deeper psychosis
Review: This movie is so bad that I'm sure that someone will like it. A twelve-year-old's idea of an "art" film. Lots of cute effects and disconnected scenes, as one crazy stalks another for far too long. For me it just went from bad to horrid to utterly awful, finishing with an ending that plumbed the depths of pointlessness....

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Judd is good, the movie is horrible.
Review: I don't mind movies with not so likeable characters, or even when the plot gets strained sometimes - but this movie was horrible! It had the worst character motivation in the world - it is horrible.

Imagine you lost your wife and daughter cause you worked too hard as a secret service agent for the British government. Ok, that would mess you up etc...now imagine you are following a woman as part of your job and she brutally stabs the man you are following like 20 times, then she sits down and cries, "Oh Daddy" - which somehow triggers in his mind that he left his daughter and that his mind is telling him to "not leave her alone" because in his mind that is what his daughter is telling him.

Ok, so you see this chic stab someone brutally, then you decide to forget your duty and your job, you witness this woman hack up another 4 guys, you kill another man she is happy with, you shoot at cops to free her, she tries to kill you, and all this time Ewan's character is just so smitten with her. Bah! This movie was garbage - totally unbelievable and lame...Ewan lets 4 innocent men die at her hands because he is smitten with her...this is a secret service agent, you know those guys who have guts and minds of steel....this movie sucked.

Other things that made this movie stupid were unbelievable things like this: He goes to visit her in the hospital, and he asks for her, and the nurse says it is nice someone is visiting her, and as he is going to walk to see her, the nurse says, "You know she lost the baby don't you?" HELLO! That would never happen...no nurse would tell a man she does not know, and does not know his relation to the victim that information - it is even against patient confidentiality also...stuff like that makes you cringe as a viewer.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: what a disappointment!
Review: There's a big sucking sound and it's coming from this movie. By the time you reach the end of this one you'll be asking yourself, what happened? Kind of a hard to follow plot. Judd and McGregor are great as usual and even have interesting characthers.....too bad it was horribly written. Rent it before you buy!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Oh, man!
Review: This movie was stupid....what else can I say!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A good movie with a lot of suspense.
Review: For once a movie that actually made me have suspense this movie is thriller and it is not scary but it is a action movie without having things blown up and car chases well in one scene kind of but this movie makes you think what is going to happen next not who cares what is going to happen next. I say this movie is good prbally even more so for woman then men.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Interpretation is also in the eye of the beholder...
Review: Unfortunately, this is one of those films that falls in the "pick apart" category for most people. Why ? From other reviewers the feelings are mixed. It is a film where many viewers find themselves asking if what Joanna's father did to her justifies her reason for committing the crimes.Does such an excuse or reason hold water for the plot in this story? What they fail to remember is some of the "damage" caused by her other late life experiences which included her correctional mentor played by Genevieve Bujold.

Personally, for me the feelings are somewhat mixed, too, since I had previously seen Ashley Judd play a victim in Double Jeopardy. In Eye, she is also a victim of circumstances that reads like a laundry list ( from her father abandoning her, to a correctional system where she fell through the cracks). She is literally a victim of circumstances who shows us what happens when the end result is a trip down a dark abyss of madness instead of one of hope and redemption(redemption for her acts, not from the acts committed upon her by others). You often see films where such dark characters somehow make ammends or climb out of that abyss.

On the flipside, the Eye (Ewan McGregor) finds himself trying to cleanse his conscience and soul of guilt for not being there for his daughter. For the Eye, not in an incestuous or twisted sense, Joanna is very reminiscent of that missing daughter and wife. One of the best lines in the film is ,"I'm a daddy who has lost his little girl. You're a little girl who has lost her daddy." The director or writer could have easily written the typical background cliche where both daughter and wife were killed due to one of his dangerous missions. Or, his daughter could have been killed with wife surviving and leaving him with the blame. It is haunting (no pun), yet captivating how the writer gave the viewer the impression in the beginning that the Eye's daughter was dead. However, she still is an actual "ghost" of his conscience and past. It is through Joanna that he attempts to redeem himself; That is his obesession. That is his weakness...

The only other film that comes to mind with almost similar story lines is Basic Instinct. The only major difference is there was nothing at all helpless or remotely redeemable about sharon Stone's character; She simply killed men for the thrill of it !

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Very suspecting
Review: A surveillance expert is hired to follow a woman suspected of blackmailing the son of a government official. Then he discovers she may have been responsible for a series of murders spanning ten years.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Worst movie for the year 1999/2000
Review: The only thing more tortureous would be to watch 2 hours of baby seals being clubbed to death.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Both Stars For Ashley - The Rest Get Zero
Review: Ashley Judd is one of the most beautiful, talented actresses in the world today. Unfortunately, at times she picks very poor movies in which to show these qualities. This movie is quite frankly one of the worst I have seen in years, and if it weren't for Ashley, I would have stopped watching before the it-couldn't-come-soon-enough end.

The story of some British spy/law enforcement/who knows what (played by Ewan McGregor), who ends up on the trail of a serial killer (Judd). Soon enough, he falls in love with her and acts as her guardian angel. This could have been a good movie, but the story is poorly told, the actors other than Judd give very poor performances, and the result is a boring movie that despite its twists and turns is just about as exciting as watching paint dry.

McGregor is an otherwise fine actor who doesn't really show much here. In support, k.d. lang shows why she is more well known as a singer by acting about as well as a block of wood. (Why do otherwise successfull singers try to be actors?) Stephan Elliot does nothing and Kieth Claude Russell should be locked up for life for his part in this movie.

Do yourself a favor and avoid this one at all costs. Even if you are the biggest Ashley Judd fan in the world, you will not find anything worth while about this one.


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