The Eye
Lionsgate | Release Date: February 1, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
36
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
8
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen Cole
A quirkily efficient genre exercise that knows exactly where and when to administer its cattle-prod shivers. Read full review
50
VarietyDennis Harvey
This slick effort is effectively creepsome until it bogs down somewhat in plot explication. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Unfortunately, the final act (the Mexico sequences) illustrate where to take a ghost story if you want to exchange old-fashioned horror for a grilled cheese sandwich. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Their 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? Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
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. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLeah Greenblatt
It's as if, on the umpteenth Asian-horror Xerox, the ink has run dry. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
The major problem is the death of a horror film: It's startling, but not particularly scary. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Sacrifices the quietly creepy qualities of the original in favor of ramped-up horror film techniques that by now seem distressingly familiar. Read full review
40
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
Louder and more literal than its inspiration, The Eye benefits from a spiky performance by Alessandro Nivola as Sydney’s rehabilitation counselor. “Your eyes are not the problem,” he tells her at one point. He is so, so right. Read full review
38
PremiereGlenn Kenny
A tediously noisesome English-language remake of an Asian horror picture that wasn't any great shakes to begin with. Read full review
38
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
It's hard to know who bears the brunt of the blame for The Eye's stunning dullness. Read full review
20
L.A. WeeklyJim Ridley
The entire movie is an object lesson in diminishing returns: of nagging shock cuts and blaring sound cues used as indiscriminately as joy buzzers; of “look out behind you!” scares that wouldn’t make a Cub Scout flinch; of a blurry visual scheme that was far more terrifying in "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," where it sought empathy rather than empty sensation. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Most unforgivably, this Eye culminates not with the mounting dread and spectacular tragedy of the original film's decidedly downbeat vision, but with the trademark LASIK laziness of Hollywood's stylistically blank remake factory. Read full review
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