Ewan Mcgregor Movie:

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Editorial Review:
This problematic thriller boasts several inspired elements, especially intelligent, committed performances by leads Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd, both of whom have become hot commodities. Fans should definitely investigate their incisive work here, even if McGregor and Judd's talents are ultimately cast into a lost cause.

Judd plays a black-widow serial murderer named Joanna, who is systematically seducing and killing men who, in one way or another, are outside the ordinary. (Among her victims is a blind mulimillionaire, played by Patrick Bergin, and a nasty loser portrayed, surprisingly, by Jason Priestley.) McGregor is on board as a British intelligence agent who happens to be following her. Referred to as "the Eye," McGregor's operative is a haunted man abandoned years before by his wife and daughter. His isolation is such that he holds imaginary conversations with the latter, and she advises him to take pity on Joanna and protect her even as she carries on with her monstrous mission.

That's precisely what he does, at a distance, ushering in comparisons to Hitchcock's classics about voyeurism and obsession, particularly Vertigo and Rear Window. (Allusions to Francis Coppola's The Conversation are unavoidable as well.) But despite the great material (the 1980 source novel by Marc Behm was highly praised by The New York Times) and a fascinating cast (including Geneviève Bujold and k.d. lang), Eye of the Beholder bogs down in Stephan Elliott's often thoughtless, obvious direction. Elliott (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) grinds down several members of the cast by insisting on dreary, one-note performances, and he makes a long movie seem even longer by telegraphing story twists and other developments long before they happen. Justice would be served if one could extract Judd and McGregor's appearances here and graft them onto a better movie, but so it goes. --Tom Keogh

Eye of the Beholder [Region 2] Reviews:
A Favorite Film
2009-11-23 - I love this film. Most films I only watch once but this one I can watch many times. It has twists and turns that keep you coming back for more. Have been to one of the locations where a scene was shot.

Dreary Tale of Two Psychotics
2009-11-17 - One might also call it pointless, aimless, meandering, sodden, incoherent or just plain boring. Actually, were it a simple factual documentary about two severely disturbed personalities and what happened when their lives crossed, one could accept dramatic boredom. The interest of a psychological treatise does not lie in its dramatic qualities but in the intellectual interest generated by the evidence and analysis. In a film, stating this as a subjective reality for myself, everyone has, of course, the right to choose their own evaluative criteria, I expect to get a story and characters which generate some degree of involvement from me; this one left me cold and alienated, wishing only for a quick end to the business.
Many reviews, as well as the editorial one, have delineated the plot and characters; no need to do so here. I can only compliment the actors for showing up for work each day and, hopefully, for earning a goodly sum of money for doing so. Obviously, I cannot recommend the film to anyone; no doubt, some found it to be other than I did.

1 star out of 4
2008-12-18 - The Bottom Line:

This depressingly-bad thriller spins its wheels in voyeuristic territory that has been covered better in a myriad of other movies--watch Rear Window, The Conversation, or even Disturbia before you watch this.

Where's the rest of the movie?
2008-05-01 - You'll find yourself asking this when this movie unexpectedly just "ends". I'm no movie cynic and I can usually find something to like in even the worst of films, but this one had the poorest, most bewildering ending I've ever seen. It made absolutely NO sense.

Eye of the Beholder
2008-04-29 - This arrived very fast. I was really surprised. What can I say about this movie, it is spellbinding. You don't want to tke yours eyes off it for a minute for you might miss something. I watch it over and over (not every day) and always see something I had missed before. Buy it, it is GREAT!!!!
Ashley Judd is super !!