Eye of the Beholder
Destination Film Distribution Corp. | Release Date: January 28, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
29
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
8
Negative:
16
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Portland OregonianDiana Abu-Jaber
Director Stephen Elliott has acquitted himself admirably in creating this serious thriller.
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Tries to blend old film noir and new high-tech thriller styles with only sporadic impact.
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Watchable even when what's going on makes no sense whatsoever.
50
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Elliot fails to make the needed connection between the audience and a peeper who has lost his moral balance.
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
As meticulously deranged as its paranoid protagonist. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeJay Carr
Never brings its potentially intriguing plot strands into focus. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Truly weird and unworkable thriller. Read full review
50
USA TodayMike Clark
Far from being a run-of-the-mill slasher pic.
40
Film.comRobert Horton
Not terribly enjoyable to watch. Read full review
40
Village VoiceJessica Winter
High-buffed, low-rack pulp. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
So stupid, so stupefying, so stupendously bad.
31
Mr. ShowbizMichael Atkinson
Flows like day-old cement.
30
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
One very sick and messed-up movie. Read full review
30
VarietyDeborah Young
A mixed-genre detective pic, thriller and love story that shifts gears too often and doesn't know when to end. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Sitting through the film was an exercise in confusion. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
A perfect example of form without content. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyTy Burr
There's not much else for viewers to do but give themselves over to the whims of the bad-movie gods. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Attempts to convey emotional dislocation and passion at the same time. All we get is distance. Read full review
25
Baltimore SunAnn Hornaday
A hackneyed psycho-sexual thriller with enough awkwardly executed Hitchcock references to qualify as a bad DePalma knock-off.
20
Film.comJohn Hartl
Self-conscious clunker. Read full review
20
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Impenetrable mess of a movie. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesEric Harrison
It isn't insultingly bad; it's just incompetent.
20
L.A. WeeklyJohn Patterson
Intriguing for a while, then steadily more confusing and finally just incoherent. Read full review
12
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
The single worst movie David Lynch never made. Read full review
10
NewsweekTed Gideonse
Hilariously incompetent.
0
Miami HeraldCurtis Morgan
Pretentious, perplexing and plain rock-dumb movie.
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