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Eye of the Beholder

Eye of the Beholder

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: HUGE waste of time!
Review: I must agree with one reviewer...this movie is "unique" alright....uniquely asinine. I refuse to be told that I must not be deep enough or perceptive enough to "get" a movie like this....if it's [junk], it's [junk]. As much as I like Ashley Judd (she's a very good actor), there is nothing good to be said about this movie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An extremely well made suspense thriller.
Review: An british detective named Stephen Wilson (Ewan McGregor) better known as the Eye. His new assignment is to watch an confused woman named Joanna Eris (Ashley Judd), she has been running from the law for years. Since Stephen has been with her every move, he begins to fall in love with her and also finds out that Joanna is a murderer killing almost every man is meets. Stephen wants to help her more than putting her in Jail.

Smart film with Terrfic Performance from McGregor and Judd. Well written and directed by Stephan Elliott (The Adventures of Priscilla:Queen of the Desert) from the Novel by Marc Behm. DVD`s has strong anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1) transfer and Pan & Scan is included. Excellent Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. Including an director`s commentary. The DVD from Canada is in Pan & Scan, Dolby Stereo Sound and also has a Deleted Scene and an Altertive Ending. This Film is not for all Tastes but It`s Smart, Ambitious, Strange and Original in it`s Own Way. Super 35. Grade:A.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Movie Addict
Review: The worst I've seen in a long time. I kept getting the feeling that it was on the spool backwards. Actually, you could watch it in reverse and get the same amount of enjoyment out of the weird characters and lack of plot. Save your time, just have the popcorn and look out the window. Maybe something interesting will happen by!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: If I could give it less than 1 star, I would
Review: This is one of the worst movies of all times. Even bad B-films have their redeeming qualities within the genre. This movie, however has nothing to say and takes up two hours of your life doing it. You'd be better off staring at a blank screen for the same amount of time. Please skip this one and save yourself.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Not for the casual movie-goer
Review: An excellent pyschological thriller dealing with deception, murder, and love. The end made me cry. I have seen this movie several times and fully enjoy it.
Anyone who is lonely and has experienced loss in their lives will relate to the two main characters. It is realistic... in real life, there are no happy endings.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Not as bad as people make it out to be
Review: Based on the almost universal panning of this movie as one of the worst ever, I avoided seeing it for quite a while. Finally I broke down and watched it one night and honestly do not understand all the criticism. I thought it was a fairly engrossing movie that kept me interested throughout the entire film.

To address a couple common complaints about the movie... A lot here say it was extremely confusing. Although not a traditional plot for a movie, I didn't really see all that much to be confused about, it was fairly straightforward. Most people seem to hate the movie for the ending alone. While I agree its kind of an 'open' ending, its not that its necessarily bad. There's basically 2 things that could possibly occur after the ending of the movie (I won't reveal them for spoiler sake). Why is it so bad that the writer doesn't tell you which of the 2 things occurred? Because it wasn't important to the story what happens afterwards, it was everything leading up to that point that was important.

While you are kind of thrown into the whole plot without much upfront explanation, Ewan's character is thrown into his feelings just as suddenly and that is when the story begins. Throughout the film you piece together bits and pieces of each characters past to make you understand why they are doing the things they do and what led up to them. Its basically a contrast of 2 people who have suffered great loss and how they cope with it.

I also found the camera effects to be very good as well as good acting through the film.

So if you need a movie where everything is tied up nice and neat at the end, this may not be for you, but other than that there really isn't too much to dislike about it. Give it a try.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Vastly underrated beauty.
Review: Serious advice: start drinking whisky as soon as the movie starts and kill at least half a pint. By the end, you'll be floating on the sheer bizarre beauty of this film. It's glamorous and pointless and compelling--unexpectedly so, if you happen to stumble on it without prior expectations. I actually thought I'd dislike this film, had very low expectations, and rented it one night on whim. I've watched it several times since then. This is the kind of story where you keep asking "Why?" but there's no pat explanation for why the main characters act as they do--there's the superficial backstory for each of them, but in the end they're opaque--their choices, motives, and thoughts undecipherable. It's amoral, stylish noir, but somehow it has a pure heart.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The eye of the beholder
Review: I have bought the VHS version of this film. This film is not as bad as the other reviews had said. It has some good acting and if you like Ewan McGregor then you will like to watch this film. I was not sure whether to buy this film after reading the reviews. I felt this film was all about killing, then this would not be my choice of film. It is really a story about love and loneliness between a father and a daughter. If you like a film to be more of a story rather than action then you're like the film. Other reviews have said this film is hard to follow and you would have to be an intelligent person to follow it, well, I found the film quite easily to follow. The film is like a puzzle of two people with similar losses and the viewer can watch the puzzle unravel throughout the film. She plays a very disturbed young woman that kills men when they show a more personal interest in her. He is a detective on her trail, but always protecting her from the police every time she kills. I do not want to give too much away, but I feel this film would suit an older viewer, a female viewer rather than a male viewer as this film is a sort of love story.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Much ado about nothing
Review: My fiance and I watched this disc, the whole time hoping that there'd be some explanation, some plot point, that would make all of the cross-country travel, wardrobe changes (and wardrobe oddities, like the red coat) and snow-globes seem worthwhile. The end reveals no explanation at all, just a take it or leave it, as-is ending. We'll be erasing the two hours spent with this disc, instead to place our high IQ's on better topics. Skip this one, please.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A media studies lecturer speaks
Review: Asthenic to some, it's eccentric directorial flourishes, vivid, encaustic photography and baroque isochronal plot twists soon yield to a captivating, inchoate charm. The 'eye' is the mirror to the childhood world of amoral absolutism against the adult 'other', the door to the past breached by the protagonists like vapour, which the ending signifies beyond it's touching exhortation, before it's closure to the harsh exigences of the adult world with a wistful poetry that commands obeisance beyond it's exiguous formalist structure.

Also your girlfriend will go a big rubbery one like she did over 'Ghost' and 'Braveheart'


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