The Eye (2008)

"The Eye is no exception to the general rule that remakes of Asian horror films never live up to the original. It suffers from a desperate lack of invention and a meandering plotline that seems to make itself up as it goes along."

"This slick effort is effectively creepsome until it bogs down somewhat in plot explication."

"Louder and more literal than its inspiration, The Eye benefits from a spiky performance by Alessandro Nivola as Sydney’s rehabilitation counselor. “Your eyes are not the problem,” he tells her at one point. He is so, so right."

"A tediously noisesome English-language remake of an Asian horror picture that wasn't any great shakes to begin with."

"The random dead people in her elevator and hallway don't really add much to this story, and the Sixth Sense I-see-dead-people routine feels a bit old. The well-timed classic horror music does a great job of building up to revealing a ghost or piece of action, and along with the figures of death is suppose to contribute to a frightening atmosphere, but somehow The Eye doesn't seem terribly scary at all."

"Sacrifices the quietly creepy qualities of the original in favor of ramped-up horror film techniques that by now seem distressingly familiar."