The Eye

The Eye (horror )
Cast: Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola
Direction: David Moreau, Xavier Palud


BASED on a Hong Kong horror film, The Eye comes a wee bit late. Because, Bollywood has already ripped it. Remember Naina , where Urmila Matondkar saw stuff - death, accidents, ghosts - after a cornea transplant. Replace Ms Matondkar with Jessica Alba and the soporific horror sequences of the B-grade Bollywood film with a handful of real chills and thrills and rest assured: this is an adequate time-pass film.

Alba is Sydney Wells, the young, blind musician, who goes in for a cornea transplant, only to discover she was better off without sight. For her blurry vision shows her dead and dying people along with the shadowy, skeletal angels of death. More scary is the image she sees in the mirror in place of her face. It's a sad, doleful girl who seems to be telling her something. All that Alba has to do is to ferret that girl out and find out the disasters that lie in wait. And the only person who can help her is the reluctant doctor who drives her all the way to Mexico to meet her donor.

Not the best for Alba fans, nevertheless there's ample fun for horror buffs here.