Eavesdropper
|
List Price: Our Price: $4.97 You Save: $20.02 (80%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $0.33 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of Eavesdropper
Movie Review: i loved the concept of this movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Eavesdropper was definitely a movie that I would recommend to those who like thrillers. I got a chance to see it at friends house, and loved the entire idea of it. These fifteen deaf patients are asked to be part of an experiment to try and restore their hearing. The treatments cause these terrible side affects that cause them all to go crazy, except for one person out of the fifteen, Liza. The rest of the movie revolves around her and the fact that she has exceptional hearing, which ends up getting her in a bad situation with the people that conducted the experiment. It builds up and keeps you anticipating what's going to happen next, definitely the kind of thriller that keeps you watching simply to figure out why the experiment went wrong and why there was only one patient who survived.
I was intrigued with the idea of the entire movie, how people react when their own thoughts can be read, and how someone's entire life can be altered by allowing them to finally hear after a lifetime of being deaf. Give it a watch, it's worth it.
Movie Review: On the Edge of My Seat
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one of the best thrillers that I've seen in a while. I was on the edge of my seat during the entire second half of the movie. I liked the plot a lot. It's very different than other thrillers...Very original stuff. I don't think that I've ever seen a scientific thriller that has to deal with deaf patients. It definitely grabbed my attention during the first half when they start to conduct all the tests on each patient.
It is always worse when people mess with the handicapped, since they are viewed as "easy targets." I think that is why it is so intense. I don't know. I really enjoyed this movie. It got my heart racing, which a movie hasn't done in a while.
Movie Review: Original movie just keep in mind a few facts
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is aimed at fans of real life stories because it claims to be based real events. You won't find it much science fiction like in James Bond or Lara Croft movies but its central event is a good match to such movies: secret experiments that turn deaf people into mind-readers but they all go berserk and commit suicide, except one, Liza Reiner or the patient 14. I don't think any of the cast members are very famous, I didn't recognize any of them.
Right here, the first review mentions that the movie's web site says that the director is missing. This all looks creepy and quite interesting, so I just bother to speed the movie's end up to see a typical commentary that states what the movie is based on. In case you've never noticed such legend, it comes after mentioning the staff who made the movie, credits, filming places, and more. The statement is virtually at the very end of data displaying. I've always seen it in fiction movies making clear the movie is not real and any similarity with real life events is only coincidence. I guess they show it in order to avoid law suits and this movie does have that statement. I also guess the movie makers think that they can say whatever they want in their movies and it's up to people to pay attention to little details, like the typical small letters one finds in some contracts in life.
The movie making industry has been criticized by many Conservatives for being biased by siding too much with Liberal views. This movie is an open example and it actually hurts more than helping the Liberal causes by lying. The bad guys here are military staff, and at least one time the top bad (Aiden Porter) guy makes clear the Liberals are the menace when he asks Liza to spy on a Liberal judge to be appointed for the Supreme Court or something very high. I have seen other movies like this where they scare people without providing proper reasons; my favorite example is "The 7th day" I think, one of the last Arnold Shageswhatever's movies, which shows genetic engineering feeds the starving masses and saves endangered species (what is going to happen) but it must be stopped because the owners can be evil. If this is so, there should not human civilization in first place since everything out of human civilizations has had serous consequences, we'd better return to our old caves (although I see more consequences on that path).
Regarding the movie's story, it did not make much sense to me very often. In one scene, the typical waco scientist (Dr. Kramer I think) has his tongue cut off without anesthesia by Porter's men; however they let him go. Later on Dr. Kramer, with his mouth still bleeding, reaches Liza's to give her confidential documents.
Nevertheless, if you like movies like "Constant Garner" you may still like this movie. For example, Liza usually doesn't know well what's going on around her. Eventually, her survival is more about good luck than anything else. As for me, despite my critics I still enjoyed the movie because it reminded me of my childhood movies and cartoons where characters would get super powers out of secrets and accidental experiments -the sort of Spider-man or the X-Men which are still very popular- and the story sequence was still entertaining since it involved a lot of intrigue. Besides, the claim that it was all real (supported by the lack of any other high tech stuff, but traded by intrigue) made the movie more appealing. Just keep in mind it's all fake.
Movie Review: Good
Summary: 3 Stars
Not too bad of a movie. Bought it mainly cause I totally love Costas Mandylor. He plays an awesome bad guy.
More Movie Reviews:
1 2
1 2