Jessica Alba may be easy on the eyes, but a lack of dramatic heft makes her hard on The Eye.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2008

With every twist of the second-hand plot telegraphed far in advance, you don't need to be clairvoyant to see where this is going.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 25, 2008

Effectively creepsome until it bogs down somewhat in plot explication.

Full Review | Apr 25, 2008

One can't turn a blind eye to such conspicuous failings.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Apr 25, 2008

There are a couple of effective scares, but this feels like a retread too far. Enough with J-horror already - let's do something new.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 25, 2008

An effective if redundant fright flick.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 4, 2008

The major problem is the death of a horror film: It's startling, but not particularly scary.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Feb 4, 2008

The most frightening aspect of this supernatural horror film -- a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong thriller -- is that there was a 114-minute version, before someone took pity and snipped it down to a lugubrious 97.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 4, 2008

Yet another inferior remake of an Asian horror film.

Full Review | Feb 4, 2008

The movie is watchable -- never more gratuitously so than when Alba is filmed showering and slipping into a tank top. But we've been here before, no?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 4, 2008

The most vivid aspect of The Eye is its poster image, that of a huge female eye with a human hand gripping the lower lid from the inside. The least vivid aspect is the way Jessica Alba delivers a simple line of expository dialogue.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 4, 2008

The Eye is the latest Western deconstruction of a successful Asian horror movie and it is louder and more literal than its inspiration.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 4, 2008

The script is credited to Sebastian Gutierrez, who penned Snakes On a Plane, a movie that knew how to have scares and sex and a bit of fun. What happened?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 4, 2008

You'd think that a horror story concerned with the unreliability of sight might at least try to generate scares via the use of visual trickery.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 1, 2008

A tediously noisesome English-language remake of an Asian horror picture that wasn't any great shakes to begin with.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 1, 2008

Alba is so believable as a woman thrown out of her comfort zone... that it's actually a disappointment when the plot kicks in.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 1, 2008

What's worse than a bad American remake of a terrifying Asian horror movie? Why, a bad American remake of a crappy Asian horror movie, of course.

| Feb 1, 2008