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Overall Rating
  Awesome: 10.66%
Worth A Look: 2.46%
Average: 8.2%
Pretty Bad: 10.66%
Total Crap: 68.03%
9 reviews, 68 user ratings
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| Eye of the Beholder |
by Brian McKay
"Eye of the Bewildered"
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I can sum this film up in 4 words: "I don't get it".
That isn't always a bad thing. I say that at the end of nearly every David Lynch movie, but I still love them. But in the case of "Eye of the Beholder", it is a statement of annoyance and geniune confusion, rather than awestruck admiration. About the only productive thing I can see that came out of this film is that Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd made enough money to pay the rent for a few months.The plot, in a nutshell, is that Ewan McGregor is some kind of high-tech recluse secret agent guy, a british agent working for an american agency of indeterminate identity. But the kind of work he does is strictly peeping-tom low-level surveillance. Not the most thrilling of spies, kind of a -007.
On the thinnest of pretexts, he ends up following a mystery woman played by Ashley Judd. She walks around in various disguises, looking sexy and talking tough, meeting men, mating with them, and then killing them. While spy-guy witnesses this through his surveillance cameras, he becomes oddly enamored with her, forsaking his job to pursue after her. An hour and a half later, after a mindless, pointless cross-country pursuit, the film finally ends with a resounding "What the FUCK was the point of that". Oh, and there's also the wierd subplot about spy-guy's relationship with his imaginary daughter who he holds conversations with, even though he knows she's not really there. Nevertheless, she appears frequently out of nowhere, sometimes even more than one instance of her appearing in the same room. Oddly enough, this is one of the more intriguing elements of the film, yet it drops off halfway through the film and is never touched upon again, like a stillborn idea that the filmmakers decided to just give up on.
The actors themselves (including a surprisingly decent KD Lang) can't really be faulted for what is a result of a horrible script and slipshod directing. The whole thing is so convoluted, they really have nothing to work with.On the bright side, I only lost an hour and half of my life watching this piece of shit, unlike those involved in the making of it, who lost months.
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originally posted: 12/23/01 18:47:24
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USA
28-Jan-2000 (R)
UK
N/A
Australia
10-Aug-2000 (M)
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