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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767851145
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767851145
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: COLD05052D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 23, 2000
Running Time: 101 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Startling journey into obsession the story of an intelligence agent so taken with a beautiful killer he cannot bear to apprehend her. Set in the surreal world of a high-tech voyeur the tale follows him across the country as he embarks on a desperate quest for this enigmatic femme fatale. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/01/2004 Starring: Ashley Judd Jason Priestly Run time: 114 minutes Rating: R Director: Stephan Elliott
Amazon.com:
This problematic thriller boasts several inspired elements, especially intelligent, committed performances by leads Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd, both of whom have become hot commodities. Fans should definitely investigate their incisive work here, even if McGregor and Judd's talents are ultimately cast into a lost cause.
Judd plays a black-widow serial murderer named Joanna, who is systematically seducing and killing men who, in one way or another, are outside the ordinary. (Among her victims is a blind mulimillionaire, played by Patrick Bergin, and a nasty loser portrayed, surprisingly, by Jason Priestley.) McGregor is on board as a British intelligence agent who happens to be following her. Referred to as "the Eye," McGregor's operative is a haunted man abandoned years before by his wife and daughter. His isolation is such that he holds imaginary conversations with the latter, and she advises him to take pity on Joanna and protect her even as she carries on with her monstrous mission.
That's precisely what he does, at a distance, ushering in comparisons to Hitchcock's classics about voyeurism and obsession, particularly Vertigo and Rear Window. (Allusions to Francis Coppola's The Conversation are unavoidable as well.) But despite the great material (the 1980 source novel by Marc Behm was highly praised by The New York Times) and a fascinating cast (including Geneviève Bujold and k.d. lang), Eye of the Beholder bogs down in Stephan Elliott's often thoughtless, obvious direction. Elliott (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) grinds down several members of the cast by insisting on dreary, one-note performances, and he makes a long movie seem even longer by telegraphing story twists and other developments long before they happen. Justice would be served if one could extract Judd and McGregor's appearances here and graft them onto a better movie, but so it goes. --Tom Keogh
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I love this film. Most films I only watch once but this one I can watch many times. It has twists and turns that keep you coming back for more. Have been to one of the locations where a scene was shot.
Rating:  -
One might also call it pointless, aimless, meandering, sodden, incoherent or just plain boring. Actually, were it a simple factual documentary about two severely disturbed personalities and what happened when their lives crossed, one could accept dramatic boredom. The interest of a psychological treatise does not lie in its dramatic qualities but in the intellectual interest generated by the evidence and analysis. In a film, stating this as a subjective reality for myself, everyone has, of course, ... Read More
Rating:  -
The Bottom Line:
This depressingly-bad thriller spins its wheels in voyeuristic territory that has been covered better in a myriad of other movies--watch Rear Window, The Conversation, or even Disturbia before you watch this.
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You'll find yourself asking this when this movie unexpectedly just "ends". I'm no movie cynic and I can usually find something to like in even the worst of films, but this one had the poorest, most bewildering ending I've ever seen. It made absolutely NO sense.
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This arrived very fast. I was really surprised. What can I say about this movie, it is spellbinding. You don't want to tke yours eyes off it for a minute for you might miss something. I watch it over and over (not every day) and always see something I had missed before. Buy it, it is GREAT!!!!
Ashley Judd is super !!
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