Blind Revenge (2012)

17% of critics liked it
(12 reviews)
71% want to see it
(32 ratings)

A blind author hires an assistant to help with the writing of his literary swan song, but discovers too late that his new helper has a deadly agenda all her own. His eyesight taken in a tragic accident, respected scribe Sir Paul hires Jane Ryder to help him complete his last novel. Undaunted by her… More A blind author hires an assistant to help with the writing of his literary swan song, but discovers too late that his new helper has a deadly agenda all her own. His eyesight taken in a tragic accident, respected scribe Sir Paul hires Jane Ryder to help him complete his last novel. Undaunted by her occasionally gruff employer and quick to catch on, Jane seems like the perfect woman for the job until a series of suspicious incidents begin to add up. By the time Sir Paul realizes that Jane intends to kill him, she has become his sole connection to the outside world. Now trapped inside his own home with a menacing stranger, terrified Sir Paul realizes he will have to fight back in order to survive. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.
Directed By: Raoul Ruiz
Genres: Mystery & Suspense

In Theaters: Jul 13, 2012 Limited
Studio: Cinema Epoch

Critic Reviews

Simon Crook, Empire Magazine
Conti, an actor as sturdily reliable as a Volvo, delivers a brittle, curmudgeonly turn, but the story's stiff and the denouement as ordinary as a piece of A4.
David Jenkins, Time Out
With its unlovely DV aesthetic and cheesy midi-synth score, the film has clearly been put together on the cheap. Yet it's also severely lacking in the fundamentals.
Kevin Maher, Times [UK]
A Closed Book is directed by Raoul Ruiz, a "revered member of the European avant-garde" who decided to tackle "the Anglo-Saxon tradition" - with execrable results.
Xan Brooks, Guardian [UK]
Eccentric Chilean director Raoul Ruiz has rifled through the Hammer bag of horror tricks and come up with a relentlessly silly, oddly diverting yarn.
Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph
The film feels less like a thriller than an aesthete's tease, and one with a disappointingly stiff, Europuddingy flavour.
Chris Prince, Sky Movies
Watching this two-hander feels very much like sitting through a play and although it's a well-acted one, A Closed Book's amateur charms may be lost on moviegoers expecting a lot more flash for their cash.
Philip Kemp, Total Film
It's all rather mannered and the final denouement is disappointingly banal.
Jeremy Aspinall, Radio Times
The cat-and-mouse plot fizzles out long before its lacklustre finale, which is a pity as Conti is watchable in an all-too-rare starring role.
Grant Rollings, Sun Online
A Closed Book should be locked, shut in a safe, then thrown into the sea so it is never seen again.
Leo Robson, Financial Times
Events gradually turn Gothic, with things going bump in the night, as they often do in films containing blind characters or set in country houses, so here the fun is doubled, and it all culminates in a final twist that has to be seen to be disbelieved.
Anthony Quinn, Independent
The plot is stagey, and the denouement ridiculous, but its sheer unlikeliness is what also keeps you hanging in there.
Matthew Turner, ViewLondon
One of those enjoyably awful films that's actually quite good fun providing you don't take it remotely seriously. Still terrible, though.

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Cast

Daryl Hannah
as Jane Ryder
Tom Conti
as Sir Paul

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