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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 23767
Released: April 16, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A woman is bent on revenge when the man who murdered her daughter gets out of jail on a legal technicality.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 19-AUG-2003
Media Type: DVD
Description of Eye For An Eye:
Sally Field stars in this well-crafted revenge thriller. Eye for an Eye follows Karen McCann (Field) after her teenage daughter is raped and murdered. At first, she sinks into depression and paranoia; but, when the killer (Kiefer Sutherland) is caught, then released on a technicality, she becomes obsessed and begins to track him in his neighborhood. Her single-mindedness begins to distance her from her husband (Ed Harris). Finally, when the killer threatens her younger daughter, she decides to take matters into her own hands. Eye for an Eye is not exactly a balanced examination of justice and revenge--Sutherland's killer is a relentless monster--but it does approach the conflict from many points of view, articulated by a superb supporting cast, including Joe Mantegna, Beverly D'Angelo, Charlayne Woodard, Philip Baker Hall, Keith David, and Donal Logue. It's directed with professional skill by John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man). --Bret Fetzer
Eye For An Eye Reviews:
Excellent, but... 
2009-06-24 - Sally Field's acting is especially good, and Kiefer Sutherland is the perfect villain. The story sizzles with suspense and intrigue--every scene logically following the next. But when the third act is reached, its credibility is totally compromised. It is so dumb that it presumes that everyone watching the film has little or no intelligence. Here's an example:
SPOILER: Sally develops a plan to entrap the murderer in her house and kill him in self defense, as a way of punishing him for his brutal rape and murder of her daughter, in which the justice system was remiss. So she goes to the hotel where he lives--it's in downtown Los Angeles in a rather blighted area. She approaches the desk clerk, who is standing within a locked cage (to prevent robberies) and tells him that she's from the water and power company and that all the water that the hotel uses will be turned off in a half-hour until tomorrow. Sally is not wearing any company ID badge on her shirt nor does the clerk even ask her to show him one perhaps from her wallet, which is the normal thing a clerk would do. Nor does he even phone the company to find out if she's legit. Instead, he just walks out of the cage, leaves the door open, which allows Sally to enter it, obtain Keifer's room key from one of the key boxes, and then enter his room. Then after she messes up Kiefer's room, she leaves her signature LA Lakers baseball cap there, which Kiefer has seen her wear several times. Her idea was to lure him to Sally's home where she can, after he arrives there with the intent to kill her, slay him in self-defense.
Such a dumb ending presumes that Kiefer is too stupid to suspect and figure out that Sally is setting him up, by leaving her cap there,to kill him.
Despite these serious flaws, the movie, up to this point is quite believable and enjoyable. It's worth watching for Sally's performance and for two-thirds of the story.
FIELD IS GREAT.....SCRIPT IS MEDIOCRE.....
2009-01-31 - As usual, Sally Field carries this film which is too far-fetched to be believable. No one would believe that the killer (who was proven guilty) would be set free on such a technicality.
There are so many unbelievable situations in the movie to make it believable. It is only Field's sincerity that makes it half-way so.
Ed Harris as her husband is wasted in a BORING role.
The little girl who plays their daughter, Megan, is so annoying that one wishes it was she that had been knocked off instead of the older girl.
Kiefer Sutherland makes a creepy villain.
Worth a look if you like a far-fetched plot.
A-list exploitation movie 
2009-01-27 - Sally Field plays Karen McCann, a successful carreer woman whose life is shattered by the rape and murder of her daughter. It doens't take long before the murderer, Robert Doob is found, but because of the prosecuting attorney's mistake, the case is dismissed on a technicality. Doob is released and the frustrated Karen starts to follow him around, which in turn provokes him to threaten Karen's younger daughter. Feeling the justice system has let her down, Karen starts to contemplate carrying out justice herself.
Upon its release, the movie was unfavorably compared with "Dead Man Walking". Leonard Maltin called the movie "Death Wish in drag". And he's right. "Eye for an Eye" is a rare example of an A-list exploitation movie. It's not a great drama but a movie that appeals to the same emotions and fantasies that Death Wish and The Exterminator did. Those hoping to see a movie that examines the issue of justice and revenge in a serious way while making a moral statement will be disappointed. But if you take it for an exploitation movie, one that lets you, to use Roger Ebert's description, "indulge simplistic emotions - to react instead of analyzing", sympathise with Sally Field's character and root for her while she lives out that primitive fantasy - revenge - you may enjoy the movie. "Eye for an Eye" is indeed "Death Wish in drag" and your enjoyment of the movie depends on whether you think that sounds like a good concept or not. I willingly let myself be manipulated by the movie (which was scripted by the writer of "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle") and I enjoyed it.
Heart Wrenching
2009-01-08 - Sally Feild is at her best, I can somewhat emagine what it would be like to have a child raped and murdered. who's to say I wouldn't do the same. This movie is heart wrenching and keeps you on the edge of your seat and grips you in a way you never thought a movie could.
dvd 
2008-10-14 - this is a pretty good movie. Sally Fields has done it again. i was very pleased with the movie.
