Eye of the Beholder
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Movie Reviews of Eye of the Beholder
Movie Review: Odd Story, Both Visually & Audibly Entertaining
Summary: 4 Stars
Here's an extremely stylish, different film panned by almost all the professional critics which means here's another example of why they should be ignored. You are better off reading the reviews of people here at Amazon.
Being one who appreciates stylish film-making, I thoroughly enjoyed the images and the sound on this movie. I found it absolutely fascinating. Being a male, it doesn't hurt that Ashley Judd stars in it, either.
To be fair, I can see where the story would turn off a number of people.The co- lead, Ewan McGregory's character, is odd and not very credible. k.d. lang's character is unlikable, there is some stupid numerology as part of the story and the ending is unsatisfying .
Yet, despite the above, the story is very involving and the visuals and sound (5.1 surround) are just so good that they way outweigh the negatives.
The movie flat-out entertains, which is the name of the game.
Movie Review: this isnt as bad as other reviews make it seem
Summary: 4 Stars
Give me a break people. This movie was well done.The acting and production were both fine, like
some other reviewer mentioned (and yet that same
person gave 2-3 star review??!?).
The ending wasn't so "BAD." If you are one who MUST have
a happy ending, then you might not like it, but that
doesnt mean it's bad. Shit the ending is similar to
Seven's (minus Brad Pitt and the gore;sorry for the spoiler),
and yet that movie has a 4 1/2 rating on this site.I think it
was easy to connect with the characters emotionally and
maybe even have sympathy for their circumstances.
The sad and perhaps inconclusiveness ending
fits the story perfectly.
4 stars for it being a better movie than most, 1 no-star
because if you're not in the mood it might be a little
slow and disappointing.
Movie Review: Bizarre, Yet Beautiful...
Summary: 4 Stars
Though the end of this film leaves much to be desired, "Eye Of The Beholder" is a suspenseful, desperate tragedy...lurching wounded along a cliff of brilliance. Despite a quite unintelligible storyline, the two leads (Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd) somehow manage to pull off an incredibly tangible sense of longing and desolation. They are each other's salvation. We want them to save each other. They should save each other, however we never discover if this, in fact, happens. The injured film steps freely off the cliff it treads and plummets into a sudden, unexplainable ending. At first, this bothered me. Now, I don't mind. Critically, this film was impaled for not having anything to it. I don't care. What it does have is enough for me."I wish you love."
Movie Review: A media studies lecturer speaks
Summary: 4 Stars
Asthenic to some, it's eccentric directorial flourishes, vivid, encaustic photography and baroque isochronal plot twists soon yield to a captivating, inchoate charm. The 'eye' is the mirror to the childhood world of amoral absolutism against the adult 'other', the door to the past breached by the protagonists like vapour, which the ending signifies beyond it's touching exhortation, before it's closure to the harsh exigences of the adult world with a wistful poetry that commands obeisance beyond it's exiguous formalist structure.Also your girlfriend will go a big rubbery one like she did over 'Ghost' and 'Braveheart'
Movie Review: Downward Spiral
Summary: 4 Stars
I really liked this movie! It's about an investigator (he seems to have some kind of government affiliation, but with the american or brits isn't specified... there's a lot of stuff that isn't specified...) who's going through some personal problems. He can function, though, and is assigned to check on some missing money... And becomes obsessed with a woman who comits a crime. He ditches everything and follows her... Once again Ewan McGregor makes it great.