Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Since the first is what kicked the movie off so that everything happened from there, I had to mark this one down drastically. It's definitely sub- par. As Sally Field's racing through the traffic jam for help, she would realistically get some, especially when HER stopped car is toward the front of the jam, helping it to STAY jammed. People wouldn't keep shutting her out like she's just some lunatic as she keeps going from car to car, obviously frantic, out of her mind. She's on the phone, so it's evident that she has an extreme situation going on. It's not until she's on the sidewalk and trips and falls on her face when she's finally spoken to. This is very unrealistic. And when she's finally spoken to, she's idiotically asked if she's OK... Does it SEEM LIKE SHE'S OK??? It wasn't out of concern about her fall, it was out of curiosity about her sanity. At the END of the movie, Kiefer Sutherland's fall from the stairs to on top of Sally Field is obviously fake/discontinued. When he actually lands on her, it's a pretty soft landing for where he started his fall. I know they couldn't literally have him fall on her from several steps up or it would've seriously injured Sally, but still. It doesn't look real and continuous at all.

Eye for an Eye (1996): Dir: John Schlesinger / Cast: Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris, Joe Mantegna, Beverly D'Angelo: An ugly portrayal of retaliation that manipulates viewers with its justifications. Sally Field overhears the murder of her daughter via cell phone. Kiefer Sutherland is arrested but found innocent due to malpractice with evidence. Angered, Field purchases a gun and spies on him. Predictable and pathetic justified revenge cover up. A laughable excess in hate by director John Schlesinger. What a sad decline for a director who once made interesting films such as Marathon Man and Midnight Cowboy. Field is a good actress in laughable material that her playing a death wish mother. Sutherland's blandness make him a prop for viewers to blame. The character is certainly bad but created more or less as a target for revenge as oppose to a compelling derange personality type. Ed Harris plays Field's husband who cannot reason with her. He will predictably lose hope and suspect her of things that she will not admit to. Joe Mantegna plays her lawyer who stands by her to the very end even when given a pitiful comment from her. Beverly D'Angelo also appears but just like the rest of this talented cast she can do nothing to prevent it from becoming pathetic. In films like Death Wish and Ms. 45 revenge was the subject and not the product. This stupid revenge flick is worthy of target practice. Score: 0 / 10

I thought Kiefer Sutherland did a wonderful job with the movie first off, his acting skills are hard to match by anyone,, how many actors today can bounce back and forth between movies and TV just like that.. Sally Field.. wow what happened to her since Coal Miner's Daughter. she did very good to in the role of the mother trying to get vengeance on her daughter being raped,, in the initial opening scene,, the teenage daughter is on the phone with mom,, and she get's raped and mom hear's the entire rape,start to finish, due to a technicality our rapist is set free, and free to rape and kill again. he starts stalking different prey this time, while our raging mother is trying to find our rapist and bring him to either justice or death.. these kind of movies have been overdone and watered down in the past 30 years. but this one seems to me to have a little more staying power.. I think that will be because of Kiefer's high profile,, 24,, and an amazing performance by Sally Field,, the Coal Miner's Daughter.

Considering the calibre of the cast and director, Eye For An Eye is a rather low key affair. It tells a familiar story - rapist/murderer goes free through legal loophole, bereaved parent pursues vengeance/justice - and does so reasonably well.Some might think Keifer Sutherland's villain is one dimensional and overstated - I suspect not. Some might think the reactions of Sally Field and Ed Harris as parents of the murdered girl are unrealistic - the answer here must be whether they are credible, and I think they are credible possible reactions. No two people will react the same way, and none of us knows what we would do unless it happens to us (and I profoundly hope it does not happen to anyone reading this).Ultimately, though, despite decent performances and a satisfactory (though somewhat perfunctory) conclusion, the emotional intensity of the opening is not really sustained, and the film peters out in a welter of obviousness.