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Plot:
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 p...( read more 
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MCT:May 15, 2008I can't beleive that this was made by the same dude that crafted Midnight Cowboy and Marathon Man.... Both of which I love blindly...
Watching this, I kinda wondered where he disappeared to.. The story had so much potential, it's a real shame that the opportunity was wasted.
The way that the story is told is pretty mundane and the sub plot at the crisis centre felt like an afterthought. The fact that it gets dropped without any resolution is a real sign of sloppy story telling.
Cast wise, there are some good actors here, and they basically get wasted... Fat Tony playing a frustrated cop, Ed in a thankless role which leaves them both with nothing to do... Sally Field is a really big problem for this flick.... She doesn't sell the premise at all. I just did not find her believable as someone who has lost their child in such horendous circumstances. You do get Keifer though... The guy is totally underrated. Whilst he will forever be Jack Bauer, he can play a terrific scumbag as well. He makes this watchable playing a guy with no redemming features at all.
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MCT:May 12, 2008"There are countless films available out there that have the same general premise, structure, and outcome as Eye for an Eye. Starting with how things go from silly to sillier to silliest, to the overacting and everything unremarkable in between, this film is, like a lot of movies, guilty of these crimes. But just because others are similar in nature doesn't excuse its wrongdoings."
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MCT:April 30, 2008
Decent film about a psycho (Keifer Sutherland, who is terrific) who rapes and murders Sally Field's daughter. Naturally, Field is a wreck and spends a lot of the movie trying to regain her life back until the Killer comes back for her other daughter, and then she starts brewing up her own justice. A little melodramatic, but decent, especially towards the last 30 minutes when stuff starts happening. Good opening, good closing, muddled and boring middle.
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MCT:April 14, 2008
yeah typical story of revenge, but had a nice little twist to keep me interested. besides, it had kiefer in it, so i pretty much had to watch it.
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MCT:April 13, 2008
Director, John Schlesinger, has been very quiet of late. He picked up an oscar for "Midnight Cowboy" (1969, best director) and had several nominations around that time. However, since his heyday, his movies have been thin on the ground. The seventies brought "Yanks" and "Marathon Man" , the eighties gave us "Believers" and 1990 saw him give us the average thriller "Pacific Heights" (Michael Keaton on top form). One could be forgiven for thinking that the end is nigh for this quality director...hold on.
"Eye for an Eye" is only the London-born directors fourth film of the nineties. Sally Field plays Karen McCann, a loving mother who is subjected to being an aural witness to the rape and murder of her teenage daughter. When Robert Doob (Sutherland) is charged for the murder and is then released on a technicality, Karen finds it hard to cope with the reality and starts to follow him, knowing he will do it again. Detective Dinillo (Mantegna) can do nothing to help her though and sure enough Doob kills again. She starts to grow apart from her husband (Harris) and is hellbent on achieving revenge for the injustice so much, that she gets involved with vigilantism.
While "Eye for an Eye" cannot be considered in the same breath as "Cape Fear" or "Seven", there is enough tension and emotion on show to ensure a good 90 minutes will be had by all. The performances are very strong; Sutherland, very much an underrated actor excels in a limited role, Mantegna and Harris hang on to whatever they can admirably and Field is a potent enough actress to run the show.
Even though much of it is formulaic, Schlesinger uses his undoubted ability to keep things moving as fast and as tensely as possible. "Eye for an Eye" is a good title that can be recommended to most.
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