Close Your Eyes
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Movie Reviews of Close Your Eyes
Movie Review: KEEP BOTH EYES OPEN!!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
Fans of the "Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons" will appreciate Nick Willing's nifty little chiller that ceners on a London murder investigation uncovers occult symbols, Rosicrucian alchemy and blasphemous heresies that unfold when a hypnotherapist (Goran Visnjic) tries to help a female cop (Shirley Henderson) stop smoking and is asked to hypnotize a mute child who was kidnapped but escaped from an unknown assailant. This precisely made film with careful composition and terrific performances builds tremendous tension that leads to an outrageous climax. I thought about this scary little film for days afterwards.Movie Review: Mind Thriller
Summary: 4 Stars
What secrets does the human mind surpress? What if a person has an unusual gift, i.e. he can see images in another peron's mind? Impossible, you say! The hypnotherapist in this film does exactly that while attempting to help a detective stop smoking - a young girl who is floating beneath the surface of a stream; she had been kidnapped by a ritual killer, she escaped her captor, but, she has not spoken a word about this expierence. If you are a fan of psychological drama and the vageries of the human mind, this film is for you.Movie Review: Entertaining occult mystery movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Entertaining occult mystery movie. A few difficult to watch scenes (if you've seen CSI you'll be able to handle this). Similar fare would be The Ninth Gate and Angel Heart. I wouldn't go out of my way to see this one, but if you're bored or it's on cable then it's worth checking out.Movie Review: Scarey, Creepy, Great Ending.
Summary: 4 Stars
English horror film abuot a hypnotist up against a sort of demonic spirit who learns scientifically and spiritually how to be reborn in other bodies to essentially live forever. This movie will scare the crap out of you. It is smart, well acted and fun.Movie Review: An Entertaining Psychological Chess Match
Summary: 3 Stars
"Close Your Eyes" is a film with no grand ambitions, other than to creep you out. The story is fairly basic: a reporter and a psychologist chase a serial killer around London hoping to catch him before he strikes again. A cat and mouse game ensues, the psychoanalyst becomes psycho, and the body count begins to pile up. Shirley Henderson nails the role in which she comes off as both depressed and filed with a hungry urgency. Her determination is never really explained, but we believe in it because Henderson is just that good. Her counterpart, Michael, becomes more paranoid as the plot advances. He, of course, has secrets to hide and investments to protect. His wife fills her role, cinematically speaking, to annoy and obstruct. The climax does deliver the creepy good, and you have to respect this film for laying it all on the line. Even if it does become too weird for its own good.
The film ultimately comes up a tiny bit short for me. Despite the bold characters and strong sense of atmosphere I had this nagging sense that I was watching a low budget made-for-TV movie. Or an episode of a crime solving TV show. For instance, something arbitrary leads directly to a groundbreaking, case breaking, revelation. . .just like in "Murder She Wrote" (in this case a spilled cup of coffee). However, much of the fun of these shows is that the viewer gets to play along at home. Here we are given no clues and no list of suspects. Instead we are asked to take the cat and mouse game as the whole source of entertainment. This has worked in other films ("Along Came a Spider"), and this one does go down pretty smooth, there just wasn't enough there. Maybe there should have been more dark corners of the subconscious and less newsroom politics. I also was not a fan of how Paddy Considine was saddled with a nothing role where he was stranded to play with his toys.
At the heart of "Close Your Eyes" is a very pure message. The villain of the film is somebody who is trying to live forever. They way that fact ties into him being a murderer is shaky, but that is beside the point. To die is natural. To have delusions of immortality makes you the sick one. Not that humanity will ever stop searching for the Fountain of Youth, just that it's better to spend your short life doing something actually enjoyable. In the end this film is still a lot of fun. It implements some cool special effects and the scares exist of a psychological level as opposed to a physical one. Contrivances are everywhere (Really, he knocks on the killers door?), but I didn't care. Even though I can't recommend this film I would never discourage anybody from seeing it. ***