The Eye

Cast: Jessica Alba, Parker Posey, Alessandro Nivola

Director: David Moreau, Xavier Palud

Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba) is an accomplished, independent, Los Angeles-based concert violinist. She is also blind, and has been so since a childhood tragedy. As our story opens, Sydney undergoes a double corneal transplant, a surgery she has waited her whole life to have, and her sight is restored. After the surgery, neural ophthalmologist Dr. Paul Faulkner (Alessandro Nivola) helps Sydney with the difficult adjustment, and with the support of her older sister Helen (Parker Posey), Sydney learns to see again.

But Sydney's happiness is short-lived as unexplainable shadowy and frightening images start to haunt her. Are they a passing aftermath of her surgery, Sydney's mind adjusting to sight, a product of her imagination, or something horrifyingly real? As Sydney's family and friends begin to doubt her sanity, Sydney is soon convinced that her anonymous eye donor has somehow opened the door to a terrifying world only she can now see.

The movie starts with how the donor killed herself as she cannot tolerate the fact that she can see death of others which will happen in future. Whenever something is going to happen, there is this "spooky" figure which do not like to be seen by others appearing before the eye of Sydney and previously her donor for the corneal transplant.

The story did somehow follow the original movie. There is a difference between the chinese restaurant scene.

Original movie, the boss's wife was dead and she was back licking on the "char siew". This one is that she is in the chinese restaurant, just that everyone cannot see her. Then she realized that she is in the shop which is burnt down few weeks back.

Anyway, this movie is not at all scary as even the first time she opened her eyes and in the middle of the night, the patient beside her was "escorted" by the hell guard. She went out of her room to search and only to see the "white figure" which approaches her and mumbled "it's freezing"...it is so not scary with that kind of tone...

The only interesting thing throughout the whole movie is this guy sitting beside me with his girlfriend, sort of shout out loud to one scene towards the end, which is obviously not scary....Maybe he did not watch the first one at all..

My friend named this guy, "a gay with his girlfriend"!!!

Do not waste your money to walk in the cinema unless you are in the following categories:

1) Extremely Boring or too much cash to spare
2) Want to see Jessica Alba
3) Hope to see the "ang mo" old man in the lift whom he did not cut his toe nails
4) The boy whom speaks in English "did you see my report card"

***YAWNS***