Blink

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Summary: I SEE YOU...SORT OF
Review: A brilliant performance from Madeline Stowe elevates BLINK in an otherwise slow moving, at times muddled, movie. Stowe plays a blind violinist who receives a corneal transplant that results in her having delayed perceptions, that is seeing things that may have happened a day or so before. This involves her in the murder of a young woman who lives above her, and ultimately brings her to meet Aidan Quinn, an egotistical young detective, who is assigned to the case, and ultimately ends up falling in love with her.
Michael Apted's direction sometimes gets in the way of true suspense, the middle of the movie seeming to slow down, and the killings take second place to the love affair. A red herring is thrown in and you might swallow it, but the identity of the killer once revealed may come as a surprise.
Stowe and Quinn have a good chemistry and good support comes from James Remar and Peter Friedman, but it is Madeleine's marvelous performance that enlightens this film.

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Summary: Stowe and Quinn sizzle in this taut thriller
Review: A good plot, interestingly shot in Chicago, but what jams it is the incredibly hot chemistry between (cop) Aidan Quinn and (blind violinist)Madeleine Stowe. Some people just create voluptuous sexual chemistry, and these two do it! Stowe is excellent. Quinn and other cast very, very good. You'll like this film very much. The serial murder angle is even a little different and ok.

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Summary: A Smart Suspense Underrated Thriller.
Review: A Talented Musican (Madelenie Stowe) is having her Eyes Restored after Years of Blindness. After the Operation, She Witness a Murder but her Brain is having a Hard Time to Make a Visual Information on the Killer and Trying to Remember in her Mind but the Polce thinks, She`s a Crackpot but Expect for one Detective (Aidan Quinn)is Trying to Help Her.

Directed by Micheal Apted (Coal Miner`s Daughter, Gorialls in the Mist, Enigma) and Written by Dana Stevens brings a Sharp Mysterious Thriller works thanks to Madelenie Stowe`s Convincing Strong Performance. This is a Superior Suspense Film. This was an Modest Success at the Box Office, that Should Have Been a Bigger Hit in Theaters. This Flick does have a Excellent Cinematography Work by Dante Spinotti (Manhunter, The Haunting, Red Dragon). This is One of the Best Thrillers that came out in the Early Nineties. Super 35. Grade:A-.

Rating:
Summary: Above average thriller
Review: As thrillers go this is above average. True, the premise is a "been there, done that" sort of thing with a romance between the detective and the potential victim with a serial killer in the shadows, etc. However there is just enough originality here added to solid performances by the stars to make it worthwhile.

Aidan Quinn (no relation to Anthony) plays a cute and quirky detective in the Windy City on the trail of a budding serial killer. Madeleine Stowe is a blue grass/Irish violinist blind since she was eight. As the movie opens she is about to get cornea transplants, and before long she can see, sort of, which is important since she has become a witness to murder. Some of what she sees are flashbacks to the day before, which makes her a problem witness for the police. Some other flashbacks are to when her mother smashed her face into a mirror for playing with her make-up. How sick is that? I presume this was dreamed up by Dana Stevens, who gets credit for the script, which is a kind of mishmash of clever lines and shlock dialogue as though two different people (or half a dozen) wrote it.

Michael Apted's direction is not inspired although it isn't all that bad either. But he doesn't develop the serial killer's personality, and so the weirdo's motivation seems a bit of a stretch. Also undeveloped is the doctor whose love for Stowe is unrequited. The main thing is the erotic chemistry between Stowe and Quinn, and the personality of Stowe's character, which is original and the best thing in the movie. I think this would have received a better reception had Quinn's character fallen in madly in love with the violinist. As it plays, we are not sure whether he really cares or not.

Madeleine Stowe is sexy and does a good job in a demanding role, probably the most demanding of her modest career. See it for her.

Rating:
Summary: Above average thriller
Review: As thrillers go this is above average. True, the premise is a "been there, done that" sort of thing with a romance between the detective and the potential victim with a serial killer in the shadows, etc. However there is just enough originality here added to solid performances by the stars to make it worthwhile.

Aidan Quinn (no relation to Anthony) plays a cute and quirky detective in the Windy City on the trail of a budding serial killer. Madeleine Stowe is a blue grass/Irish violinist blind since she was eight. As the movie opens she is about to get cornea transplants, and before long she can see, sort of, which is important since she has become a witness to murder. Some of what she sees are flashbacks to the day before, which makes her a problem witness for the police. Some other flashbacks are to when her mother smashed her face into a mirror for playing with her make-up. How sick is that? I presume this was dreamed up by Dana Stevens, who gets credit for the script, which is a kind of mishmash of clever lines and shlock dialogue as though two different people (or half a dozen) wrote it.

Michael Apted's direction is not inspired although it isn't all that bad either. But he doesn't develop the serial killer's personality, and so the weirdo's motivation seems a bit of a stretch. Also undeveloped is the doctor whose love for Stowe is unrequited. The main thing is the erotic chemistry between Stowe and Quinn, and the personality of Stowe's character, which is original and the best thing in the movie. I think this would have received a better reception had Quinn's character fallen in madly in love with the violinist. As it plays, we are not sure whether he really cares or not.

Madeleine Stowe is sexy and does a good job in a demanding role, probably the most demanding of her modest career. See it for her.

Rating:
Summary: Above average thriller
Review: As thrillers go this is above average. True, the premise is a "been there, done that" sort of thing with a romance between the detective and the potential victim with a serial killer in the shadows, etc. However there is just enough originality here added to solid performances by the stars to make it worthwhile.

Aidan Quinn (no relation to Anthony) plays a cute and quirky detective in the Windy City on the trail of a budding serial killer. Madeleine Stowe is a blue grass/Irish violinist blind since she was eight. As the movie opens she is about to get cornea transplants, and before long she can see, sort of, which is important since she has become a witness to murder. Some of what she sees are flashbacks to the day before, which makes her a problem witness for the police. Some other flashbacks are to when her mother smashed her face into a mirror for playing with her make-up. How sick is that? I presume this was dreamed up by Dana Stevens, who gets credit for the script, which is a kind of mishmash of clever lines and shlock dialogue as though two different people (or half a dozen) wrote it.

Michael Apted's direction is not inspired although it isn't all that bad either. But he doesn't develop the serial killer's personality, and so the weirdo's motivation seems a bit of a stretch. Also undeveloped is the doctor whose love for Stowe is unrequited. The main thing is the erotic chemistry between Stowe and Quinn, and the personality of Stowe's character, which is original and the best thing in the movie. I think this would have received a better reception had Quinn's character fallen in madly in love with the violinist. As it plays, we are not sure whether he really cares or not.

Madeleine Stowe is sexy and does a good job in a demanding role, probably the most demanding of her modest career. See it for her.

Rating:
Summary: I'll be seeing you
Review: Blind musician gets her sight back just in time to witness a serial killer strike. Unfortunately, the lead now suffers from visual agnosia (meaning that her mind is no longer used to seeing things) so there is often a delay between the actual event and her mind processing the image. So she doesn't realize she is a witness until several hours after the attack. While the skeptical police work to catch the killer, the death toll mounts and ultimately a mysterious connection is found between all the victims. Now the killer returns to snuff out the one witness who has seen him and lived.
I would have to say that this was average to possibly a little below average except I really enjoy the Irish music that played on the sound-track. This was a very typical 'cop meets semi-helpless woman in distress and believes in her when no one else does' film. I liked it and I liked the music and if you like this sort of movie then this is a movie you will like.

Rating:
Summary: I'll be seeing you
Review: Blind musician gets her sight back just in time to witness a serial killer strike. Unfortunately, the lead now suffers from visual agnosia meaning that her mind is no longer used to seeing things and that there is often a delay between the actual event and her mind processing the image. So she doesn't realize she is a witness until several hours after the attack. While the skeptical police work to catch the killer, the death tool mounts and ultimately a mysterious connection is found between all the victims. Now the killer returns to snuff out the one witness who has seen him and lived.
I would have to say that this was average to possibly a little below average except I really enjoy the Irish music that played on the sound-track. This was a very typical 'cop meets semi-helpless woman in distress and believes in her when no one else does' film. I liked it and I liked the music and if you like this sort of movie then this is a movie you will like.

Rating:
Summary: I'll be seeing you
Review: Blind musician gets her sight back just in time to witness a serial killer strike. Unfortunately, the lead now suffers from visual agnosia (meaning that her mind is no longer used to seeing things) so there is often a delay between the actual event and her mind processing the image. So she doesn't realize she is a witness until several hours after the attack. While the skeptical police work to catch the killer, the death toll mounts and ultimately a mysterious connection is found between all the victims. Now the killer returns to snuff out the one witness who has seen him and lived.
I would have to say that this was average to possibly a little below average except I really enjoy the Irish music that played on the sound-track. This was a very typical 'cop meets semi-helpless woman in distress and believes in her when no one else does' film. I liked it and I liked the music and if you like this sort of movie then this is a movie you will like.

Rating:
Summary: I'll be seeing you
Review: Blind musician gets her sight back just in time to witness a serial killer strike. Unfortunately, the lead now suffers from visual agnosia meaning that her mind is no longer used to seeing things and that there is often a delay between the actual event and her mind processing the image. So she doesn't realize she is a witness until several hours after the attack. While the skeptical police work to catch the killer, the death tool mounts and ultimately a mysterious connection is found between all the victims. Now the killer returns to snuff out the one witness who has seen him and lived.
I would have to say that this was average to possibly a little below average except I really enjoy the Irish music that played on the sound-track. This was a very typical 'cop meets semi-helpless woman in distress and believes in her when no one else does' film. I liked it and I liked the music and if you like this sort of movie then this is a movie you will like.