SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

not as good as all the hype

Excellent but underrated film

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I've seen tons of movies. All sorts. Horror, comedy, action, drama, etc. Most movies have something entertaining about it. I've seen a crappy movie from Poland where kids go camping and get killed. Simple and garbage film. But that was better than this mess. What we have here is some supposed deep meaning. Well, I couldn't figure it out. Maybe I need the book or give me a cheat sheet. Something. Basically the story is about an investigator, McGregor, spying on a client's son who is having an affair. The woman kills the kid and takes off. McGregor follows from one city to the next. She kills more people. He still follows. The story is so convoluted. Also, his dead daughter's ghost follows him while he's spying on this woman. He speaks to a foster home camp where she was raised, finds out her and her father were homeless. She's now in Alaska working as a waitress and he's in there asking her out for drinks. I can't go on. It's so painful to even relive this mess. Ok, she goes to his trailer home, shoots him with I guess blank bullets, and takes off, he follows on a motorcycle. She crashes into a lake of ice, he goes to save her. Maybe she dies, who the hell knows. The end.Worst part, McGregor's ghost daughter is shown in multiples with some irritating noise maker. This goes on for like half an hour, it seems. Real lousy. If the film makers wanted irritation, they succeeded. There's also a scene where our hero, McGregor, punches a blind man. Nice move. Later he ends up shooting this man's car, killing him. What's not to like about that? How about everything.The audio was garbage, hard to hear the dialogue, and McGregor's accent didn't help. The music was garbage. The cinematography was decent, and you can tell they tried to be arts. This is a torture film. If you're curious about how bad this piece is, please watch in segments, and with the fast forward button handy. You may also want to spread it out into 10 days. Very irritating. It's not so bad its good. It's not so bad its bad. It's not funny. It just hurts. I'd like to mention a similarly irritating film: In the Cut, with Meg Ryan. This film was not only irritating, it was disgusting, stupid, like diving into a pool full of sewer waste. Another supposed art film. Eye of the Beholder was not like diving into sewer waste. It was just a bad film.

This was a pretty OK film. However, as a writer, I had a MAJOR problem with one scene:WARNING: Contains Spoilers:Ashley Judd plays a seductive, elusive and dangerous serial killer with a pathological distrust of men(whom she kills). Despite this, there was that important scene where her car breaks down in the desert and Jason Priestley's character stops by and gives her a ride to the mechanic, has a drink with her, and gives her a place to stay. OK, he looks like a complete douchebag and then he actually(but unsurprisingly) physically thrashes her after she refuses to do heroin with him. Despite being a dangerous woman, she allows some unstable junkie have his way with her. This seems COMPLETELY out of character for the character that she was playing.

This doesn't even deserve a star. Or even a zero. Or negative infinity. This is by far the worst film I have ever laid eyes on, and Ewan McGregor is one of my favourite actors. This was pedantic, pretentious, pontificating garbage void of a point. The direction is totally absent, the actors flail about on screen without purpose, and what the **** is k.d. lang doing in this???? What a stain on an otherwise brilliant career. If I were involved in the making of this film, I would be ashamed of myself. The only grace in knowing this exists is that one day the world will end and this film will be wiped from existence in the universe. It's THAT bad.

Take a trip around America in Eye of the Beholder. This voyeuristic spy thriller covers thousands of US miles, including all the major cities, yet it goes nowhere. For a while, the story is interesting, but it gets progressively less so. Eye of the Beholder, is pretty ambitious, but it's not actually that smart. What we get can be interpreted as Vertigo plus Rear Window updated for the late 20th century, or as a hundred minute man hunt that is dressed up look fancy. Either way, the movie is not that appealing, and furthermore it is far too long (or it feels that way). This is one of those movies that you are kind of eager for the end to come, because having never gotten to be a part of it, you are just a viewer in the audience watching shallow characters run around on screen. Neither Ewan McGregor nor Ashley Judd can bring much life to their roles. What is ironic though is that even when the ending comes, you may find yourself frustrated, because it's abrupt and lame, and leaves so much unanswered. Eye of the Beholder, is a film that misfires. It attempts too much, and leaves out important ingredients like intellect, dimension, and thrills/chills. I don't think I can recommend it.