THE EYE

HEADLINE: ** She Sees Dead People **
TITLE: THE EYE
Quality: * * Acceptability: -3
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: L
Violence: VV
Sex: None
Nudity: N

RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: February 1, 2008
TIME: 96 minutes
STARRING: Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola and Parker Posey
DIRECTOR: David Moreau and Xavier Palud
PRODUCERS: Don Granger and Paula Wagner
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Peter Block, Peter Chan, Doug Davison, Mike Elliott, Roy Lee, Michelle Manning, Darren Miller, and Michael Paseornek
WRITER: Sebastian Gutierrez
DISTRIBUTOR: Lionsgate Film
BASED UPON: The Chinese language film, "Jian gui" by Jo Jo Yuet-chun Hui, Oxide Pang and Danny Pang

CONTENT: (PaPa, OO, FR, B, C, PC, L, VV, N, A) Mostly mixed pagan worldview with some strong occult elements as woman sees and communicates with the dead including a ghost takes control of a woman's bodies and many characters call another woman, who can see the spiritual world, a witch as well as negative, scary views of death and the afterlife, along with some light moral elements as woman rejects her own safety to try and save people's lives, a Catholic crucifix hangs on the wall of a home, and one politically correct statement about the positive aspects of stem cell research; two obscenities and one light profanity; strong violence includes a lot of ghostly and frightening images, suicide by hanging, dream of a face burning, images of people burning, images of dead people being escorted by frightening "grim reaper"-type shadows, implied woman hit by car, and several other ghostly images including dead body floating in elevator, boy whose head looks bashed in and building engulfed in flames, a car crash, and glass explodes into woman's eyes; no sex or sexual immorality; nudity includes blurred image of woman in shower and woman seen in night-top and underwear; alcohol includes woman takes one drink of sherry from the bottle; no smoking or drug use; and, nothing else objectionable.

GENRE: Horror
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults

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SUMMARY: THE EYE, which stars Jessica Alba as Sydney Wells, is a remake of a Chinese horror movie about a young blind woman who starts seeing scary supernatural images after receiving a cornea transplant. THE EYE delivers only fair entertainment and has a mixed worldview with strong occult elements.

IN BRIEF:

THE EYE, which stars Jessica Alba as Sydney Wells, is a remake of a Chinese horror movie. Sydney, who has been blind since five, has learned to use and trust her other senses. When she receives her new cornea transplant, she has a hard time adjusting to all the new lights and things she sees. Sydney becomes acutely aware she is seeing more than she should. Ghastly visions of those about to die and images of dark shadows harvesting the souls of those just departed flood her new eyes. Sydney learns her new eyes came from a young Mexican woman who killed herself because she could not stop the death of people. Sydney decides not to suffer the same fate. Instead, she fights to save the lives of those in danger. She can't convince those around her, however, to help.

THE EYE delivers only fair entertainment. There are some good moments of tension, but nothing creative. THE EYE is not particularly bloody or graphic, but it has some scary moments. Also, the worldview is mixed, with strong occult elements but a heroine who endangers her safety to save other people's lives.