The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

After a cornea transplant heals her long standing blindness, a young woman sees visions of the dead that lead her into the tragic future. Or is it the past?Good ghost concept diluted by melodrama. Asian horror is so neat with its plot hinges as layers of deception are unfolded, and often it's grim and spooky. Here we have the usual scenario where a sensitive innocent is burdened with the task of uncovering an old injustice. Plenty of character - but too much dialogue, too much romance, as the story bobs about on a slack current.The pace tightens up at the end, only to deliver a false climax followed by an overblown emergency. Music is big, sometimes interesting before descending into plink-plonk piano. The photography messes with the concept of blindness, but fails to create a visual world and relies too much on ramshackle CGI.The performances are OK, and the heroine's mother and the boy with the tumour had good parts. No memorable lines, although it was interesting to see English briefly used in a HK/Thai crossover.Overall, I guess the problem is with the directors/producers, who seem to have bought a good story then splashed it with marketing gunk.

Another in the new wave of Asian horror which has been wowing foreign audiences in recent years, this follows in the same tradition as RING and DARK WATER in being a subtle, slow-paced and relatively gore-free suspense offering in which the atmosphere is emphasised over more traditional shock moments. The story of the formerly blind girl who sees dead people is nothing new – and most probably a spin on THE SIXTH SENSE – but the film's strength is in the original direction from the Pang brothers, who do more with their camera and characters than most Hollywood directors.This is a film that feels fresh and punchy, despite the slowness of the unfolding plot, and it's partly driven by a driving score that keeps the adrenaline going. The first 2/3 of the film sees Mun recovering her vision and at the same time witnessing some distinctively spooky events – a cold woman floating down the hospital corridor, a suicide boy looking for his report card. So far so good. The finale becomes a driven mystery as Mun, confused by strange visions, explores the background of her donor and finds history repeating itself as she strives to stop a terrible accident from taking place (a very similar situation to the climax of THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES).The element which makes this film stand out is the emotion. All of the characters are very well-rounded and the dialogue is very true to life – painfully so in some instances. The film deals with the topics of death and suicide in mature ways and the attitudes of the characters are extremely well acted. Angelica Lee is wonderful in the leading role, really fleshing out the character of Mun, and the various supports are also excellent in dealing with the serious tone of the film as a whole. There are some stand-out scares (apple-core face in the elevator) and weird bits (the licking ghosts) and even bits that feel like GHOST (Ying Ying being led away). The only let-down in the movie is some dodgy CGI effects work, but again that flaw is seemingly ubiquitous in today's cinematic world. The film's one grisly moment is used in a survey of burnt bodies, but the gore is used for impact and emotion rather than gross-out. Well worth checking for those bored of the usual fare.

Since it's almost Halloween, I thought I would write a review on my favorite horror movie ever. I love scary movies, but it's so hard to find any good ones. This movie isn't bloody or gory. There isn't a masked murderer running around, killing everyone. But The Eye is the most frightening movie I have ever seen. It's a psychological type of horror movie. That's what I love about it. No matter how many times I've seen it, I still get freaked out. Please, if you haven't seen this yet, watch it. You can easily find the dubbed version. (VUDU has it). Do not opt for the newer American version with Jessica Alba. It doesn't even compare.

I came across this movie while watching "The Boogeyman" and I took the time to watch some of the extra parts on the DVD, in which the actors of that movie said they had recently seen a film that was scary beyond belief, called "The Eye". When at the local video rental, I saw they had The Eye and decided to rent it and give it a try. Ready to get scared my pants off, I pulled my knees against my chest and turned on the DVD player. However, the entire movie turned out to be a huge disappointment.************** From this point on, some specific spoilers are given **************Let me start out by saying I do not necessarily have something against Japanese movies or so, since I enjoyed Ringu (saw the English version) and The Grudge (saw the original Japenese version). The story in itself has been explained numerous times, a woman gets a coronal transplant and sees dead people now.To me, a movie like this should include some scares, so that the spirits of the deceased people should at least frighten you and the main character (compare it to The Sixth Sense, where this was done nicely), this movie contained no scare at all. Another way this movie could turn into a true horror movie, is if the deceased people all have horrible stories to tell from their lives. Why these people died is unclear to us, apart from one boy who leaped out of a window, because he lost his rapport card. I have read on here that the very first ghost the Mun sees scared the hell out of many people. Let me give you a spoiler, the first thing she sees is an old woman in a hospital that says that she's cold, and then disappears. There is a succession of these visions, where the ghosts just walk by her, smile at her, have a friendly chat with her. Heck, the ghosts are much friendlier than most people I know, so I have no idea why she would be scared of them. No wait, I have told you a lie, there is one unfriendly ghost, which believes Mun has taken her place, and all of a sudden she leaps towards Mun and disappears when she's about 10 Cm away from her face. That is about the only scary part about the movie.So the first half hour, you see Mun walk around with some friendly ghosts at her side, and she gets some visions about a room too. In part two, they find the room and it belonged to the girl who had the original gift, and committed suicide because of it, and now plagues our main character, Mun. All Mun has to do is make her mother say "I forgive you", and then she is plagued no more. Mun manages to do this in a mere 5 minutes thank God, and she can go home, where she embraces her gift.I also see the acting is immensely appreciated on here. It's not bad acting, but nothing special. At a given point in the movie, Mun confesses to her doctor she sees dead people and starts to cry, only problem, during her cry scene she does not shed one tear. Heck, even the 10 year old boy in The Sixth Sense cried a river when he had to confess his gift.That's about your whole movie, nothing scary about it. You won't have a feeling that you're afraid to go to sleep in the next half hour or so. Actually, the only reason why you won't be able to go to sleep in the next half hour, is because you took an involuntary nap throughout the movie. This movie should be classified under "romantic films", rather than under horror films. This movie mainly got its hype because Japanese horror is THE genre for the elite movie watcher now. But if you like to get scared, go rent another movie or "One Night in Chyna"