sorinapha This film surprised me, as I've always heard mixed reviews of the Pang brothers, but all of my usual streaming services have been giving me problems lately (stupid college wifi) and I noticed that this and the 2008 remake were free on Hulu right now, so I decided: If this video ever loads, why not watch it? Turns out Hulu loads more effectively on my Wifi network than Netflix or Screambox, so I watched this late last night, and I was actually very impressed! The film does have a couple of frightening moments but it functions more as a thriller and drama, led by a nuanced and passionate performance by Angelica Lee, with a solid supporting cast at her side. This film also contains a lot of beautiful imagery, showing the Pang Brothers' eye (HA! yes, pun intended) for visual language. What I was most impressed by was the ending-- figuring out how to end a film of this kind is so difficult, but the Pangs do so with grace and style.All in all, if you're a fan of Asian cinema and haven't seen this yet, check this one out. Now, watch as I prepare to roast the American remake...

craigh01 Just a boring boring movie with no point at all. No deep thoughts. People said this was scary? I guess there were a few slightly scary scenes. The whole thing was just slow, and ultimately pointless.I do like some Japanese horror films (this one is in Hong Kong), but this one is just lame. I can't understand these good reviews. I feel like I wasted my time on this.At least throw in some twists or a mystery, like the American remake "The Uninvited" of the Korean horror film "A Tale of Two Sisters". (Actually I liked the American version of that better, but both were good). Those weren't all that scary either but at least there was a point to it.Just slow, boring, and no fun. I can't say much more about it without giving a spoiler.

Rohail Ali Writing my first ever review here on IMDb, because this movie really don't let me to sit quietly, Well "The Eye" is a movie which really holds a genre of Horror, I'd never seen a movie like this before which really scared me & tend me to pause & take a break several times during its playback, It's first time i really felt scared by watching this movie alone! Specially the scene when the girl was in the art class & a ghost appear & said "Why are you sitting on my chair?" Will highly recommend this movie for horror maniacs! Congratulations to Hongkong cinema for creating such an amazing movie! It's really something which i'd always expected from hundred's of Hollywood horror movies but unfortunately most of them are purely based on some hill side cannibals, zombies, or a group of psycho mass murderer's.

kenny_wolfs 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"