ThiefHott Too much of everything

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

GUENOT PHILIPPE As you already know, that's the second adaptation from the Marc Behm's novel. The first one was the Claude Miller's feature, starring Michel Serrault and Isabelle Adjani. I have not watched the French movie since a while now, but this one is very close to the novel, although, not as close as it should have been. I mean, many scenes from the book are unfortunately not shown here. Very important sequences. But I admit that this book's atmosphere was rather complex to film, and the director did a fine job in that field, better than the Miller's movie, as far as I remember. And many details provided by the novel were not put here, I understand why actually. But take for instance the short scenes in the book, when the lead female assassin meet two guys who throw her off. One talks to her about his dead child, and she decides to spare him, not to kill him as she did with the others. Very important moment, for me, at least. And the other sequence, where she is attracted by a dude in a bar and the guy suddenly stands up and tells her he will be back in a few seconds, because he walks away to talk to another woman. And the guy in question never came back to our lead. The author Marc Bahm, said that "SHE" realized that a page of her life was over. Very important link that that the film, at least this one - the French movie, I don't remember - did not show. So, I think that this outstanding story should have been supported by a three hours movie, or a mini series. Just to be faithful to the story.

Solaris88 Unfortunately that's the extent of the good things in this movie. To say "the plot is full of holes" is a colossal understatement, the plot is nonexistent. If an alien mother-ship had shown up in the latter half of this film and beamed Joanna on board it would not have been any more nonsensical or out of keeping with what had gone before than the stuff which actually happened. If this was a painting it would be classified as surrealism.One final problem, this is a movie about a deranged serial killer and the deranged person who is helping that serial killer escape capture. As it happens the deranged serial killer is a beautiful woman, which apparently makes all the difference. It's hard to imagine this flick ever being made if it had involved a male serial killer of women getting away with his crimes and the audience being asked to sympathize with him.That said, Judd and McGregor both did an excellent acting job considering what they had to work with. And it was very well filmed. And lots of cool older model cars make brief cameo appearances. So three stars.

G. 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.

Samiam3 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.