Time Out says
Jessica Alba is beautiful but bland as Sydney Wells, a violinist who, after 20 years of blindness, is given two new corneas. But with her new eyes come floating figures, ghosts and visions, possibly connected to the donor.
Her surgeon (Alessandro Nivola) and guilt-ridden older sister, Helen (Parker Posey) think Sydney is losing her mind. Moreau and Palud’s over-stretched debut feature was a series of scary set-pieces strung together by a worthless storyline. This uninspired ‘re-invention’ of Danny and Oxide Pang’s 2002 supernatural thriller is the opposite. While paying close attention to the plotting, characterisation and emotional nuances, they not only fail to match the original’s creepy atmospherics, but also fluff nearly all of its spine-chilling set-pieces. One can’t turn a blind eye to such conspicuous failings.
Release Details
- Rated:15
- Release date:Friday 27 October 2006
- Duration:96 mins
Cast and crew
- Director:Xavier Palud, David Moreau, Pang Brothers Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
- Screenwriter:Sebastian Gutierrez, Pang Brothers, Jojo Hui
- Cast:
- Rade Serbedzija
- Jessica Alba
- Alessandro Nivola
- Parker Posey
- Rachel Ticotin
- Tamlyn Tomita
- Fernanda Romero
- So Yut-Lai
- Edmund Chen
- Ko Yin-Ping
- Lawrence Chou
- Lee Sinje
- Pierre Png
- Candy Lo
- Chutcha Rujinanon
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