Eye, The - B+
By Kage Alan

Mun has been blind since she was two-years-old. It’s only through technological advances that an operation at age 20 will restore her sight. Unfortunately, there is little information known about her donor and Mun must learn how to reuse a sense that many around her have had all of their lives. While she tries to understand the objects that take shape around her, there is also a sense of unease because there are things she begins to see or thinks she sees that defy logic.

When an elderly woman in the hospital rises from her bed and is accompanied out of the room by a shadow only to be announced as dead in the morning (the woman, not the shadow), Mun attempts to investigate the oddity as best she can. Since there is no way to understand yet if what she sees represents any real danger to her, she keeps the incident to herself. The strange occurrences continue once she’s released from the hospital and eventually drive her to seek help from her psychotherapist, Dr. Wah. At first skeptical, Dr. Wah soon begins to realize that there is more going on than anybody realizes and that Mun’s sight came at a price and with a mystery.

It’s difficult not to give away some of the many twists and turns in “The Eye”, but the film will keep audiences guessing while also scaring them in some very unsettling ways. This isn’t a horror film per se, but there are some horrific moments in it. While many will be reminded of “The Sixth Sense”, “The Eye” has enough going for it not to be accused of ripping the other film off. Actually, “The Eye” manages to make “The Sixth Sense” feel like a Disney movie at times and the end is reminiscent of “The Mothman Prophesies”, though on a much deadlier scale.