"The Eye" is a very enjoyable movie. Sydney does see dead people. As well as fragmented memories, she has also inherited her psychic donor‘s gift/curse of being able to see people‘s deaths just before they happen. This leads to several hair–raising moments and a couple of heartbeat–skipping ones as French directors, David Moreau and Xavier Palud, put all the classic horror tricks to good use, for example the camera sticking closely to a wall before turning a corner to find… Boo! Alba is very easy on the eye (pun intended) and needs to be for the technique of repeatedly having big close–ups of her face to obscure the thing in the background to work. However, her performance here is noteworthy too, creating an interesting dynamic between Sydney and the audience in that Sydney, having just regained her sense of sight, is afraid of what she can see, whereas the audience, while sympathising with Sydney‘s situation, is afraid of what they can‘t."The Eye" is a remake of the low budget 2002 Hong Kong film of the same name and the latest in an increasingly long line of Hollywood remakes of Asian horror movies. Normally the phrase "Hollywood remake" is far more horrifying for a movie fan than anything the film may contain, but "The Eye" is the exception that proves the rule. What the so–called "Extreme" Asian movies do best is put horror into familiar modern settings, in the case of "The Eye" – an apartment building. The 2008 version replicates this success then and uses its bigger budget to build on it through tried and tested Hollywood techniques. Prime L.A. real estate will never look the same again.