The Eye

 

An elaborate remake of a modest Hong Kong horror flick by the Pang Brothers of Thailand, The Eye, directed by the French horror team of David Moreau and Xavier Palud, stars Jessica Alba as an American concert violinist, blind since the age of five.

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 A cornea transplant restores her sight, but results in her having powers of precognition and experiencing recurrent visions of fire and violent death. These gifts and torments come from the donor of her eyes, a Mexican psychic who's trying to send a message from the great beyond. It's sleek hokum, less a horror movie than something like Kieslowski's mystical The Double Life of Veronique reworked by a disciple of Stephen King.

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