Eye of the zzzzzzzz... (Eye Of The Beholder (DVD))

Member Name: moongod

Product:	Eye Of The Beholder (DVD)
Date:	28/05/01 (20 review reads)
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Advantages: Ewan McGregor, Premise, Gadgetry

Disadvantages: Disjointed, A ghost of a plot that soon disappears

What are two reasonable actors doing in a farce like this? The very reason why films like this have any success is that they lie within the realm of possibility, which this film blindly ignores.

It begins with a vaguely interesting premise of a private eye becoming a guardian angel-esque figure towards a murderer that he has been watching for the past 10 years.

Lots of plot sweeteners are thrown towards the viewer, but none are followed up to any extent as to make them interesting or to embellish the actual storyline. The direction is sporadic and uninspiring.

The whole affair escalates in a ridiculous trying-to-be-Hitchcock kind of a way getting more and more unbelievable, which is, as I said where the film falls down.

No one is dedicated enough to live in a clock tower, although it's wonderfully Vertigo-esque. We'd all love to be able to live off of no income quite comfortably and fit all the gadgets in the world into our back pockets without so much as a bulge...

The viewer is left with more questions about what questions they're supposed to be asking, such as whether they've been given the wrong video or not.

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