Jessica Alba, Jessica Alba, Jessica....let me stop. (heart pounding) There are few chicks in Hollywood that I would go crazy over. Mrs Alba is definitely one. Known for her fine looks and petite but curvy assets...Jessica Alba has made big strides since her Dark Angel days. Having starred in box office hits like Fantastic Four 1 & 2, Sin City, and Into The Blue etc...She takes the lead in The Eye, a remake of a japanese horror movie of the same name. (Remember The Ring & The Grudge?)
Jessica Alba is Sydney Wells, an accomplished violinist, and the star of her Los Angeles based orchestra. The fact that Sydney is "blind" does not stop her from being rather succesful. Note - She has been blind since a childhood accident involving her older sister Helen (Parker Posey). Yearning for see, Sidney undergoes a double corneal transplant which slowly restores her sight. Good news...yes. Well the bad news is that along with her newfound sight, Sidney starts to see things that no one else sees. Haughting images of people who are either
dead or about to die. And this happens around the clock, even in her sleep. Can we say...TAKE THESE FUCKING EYES BACK!!!
She immediately tells her unbelieving neural therapist, Dr. Paul Faulkner (Alessandro Nivola) that she is seeing terrifying images...but this is just passed off as her imagination. She finally realizes that her eyes previous owner may have had the same problems. (Wait till she looks in the mirror...thriller alert!!!) And that finding out the identity of her eye's donar may be the key to restoring her sanity.
Packed full of dark and intense special effects that have become common in these japenese to american horrow imports...The Eye is a good view. My only problem is that while the barrage of frightening scenes are sudden and quite good...no part of the movie is mind blowing as let's say...the final death scene in The Ring. And the movie's ending, while good, could have been better. Not the best of this genre type...but not the worst either.
Jessica Alba in The EYE. Rating = Kush aka good piff!
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