Eye of the Beholder (1999)

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• Tired of P

  
  Directed by Stephen Elliott, Destination Films, 1999, Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, Patrick Bergin, k.d. Lang and Genevieve Bujold. Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Question: Can a man fall in love with a woman that he's never met, spoken to or doesn't even know her… More
  Directed by Stephen Elliott, Destination Films, 1999, Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, Patrick Bergin, k.d. Lang and Genevieve Bujold. Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Question: Can a man fall in love with a woman that he's never met, spoken to or doesn't even know her real name? Well, in the Eye of the Beholder, they try and answer that question. A friend who knows I adore Ewan McGregor told me about this movie. I hadn't heard of it before and was curious to see it. Alright, I see everything he is in, you all know that by now, right? Anyway, I put it on my Netflix queue a few weeks ago and it arrived on Tuesday. I didn't get a chance to see it that night - although I really, really wanted to. So today before I had to pick up the kids from camp I popped it in. This is a story about redemption, a thriller, and a love story but not necessarily in that order. Yes, I know what it says above but this is what I saw in this film (Eye of the Beholder, people). I saw a man and a woman who are both so alone, scared and with thoughts of such tremendous loss that they might be a little insane. Okay, one might be more insane than the other. But as the story unfolds I don't think either are really crazy - just lonely and trying to gain some stability in their lives. For more of this review: http://www.tiredofpreviews.com/2011/08/eye-of-beholder.html

• moon r

  
  Curious tale, a cross-country Rear Window if you can imagine that, about a surveillance agent who obsesses about a woman he's tailing. It's s weird but also somehow mesmerizing.

• Dean M

  
  Superb... dark and disturbing... beautiful and entertaining... chilling, emotional and thrill-packed between Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd on their journeys around USA. Stephen Elliott's considerable skills as a filmmaker ensuring that this very classy thriller is not only… More
  Superb... dark and disturbing... beautiful and entertaining... chilling, emotional and thrill-packed between Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd on their journeys around USA. Stephen Elliott's considerable skills as a filmmaker ensuring that this very classy thriller is not only exciting visually but also bold and original.

• Megan S

  
  Boring. The only thing that redeeming about it was some of the clever camera work otherwise I would have given it a zero. I think it was trying to be too many things at once. It was horribly slow and I had to start doing something else just to stay awake. It was made in 2000 but it… More
  Boring. The only thing that redeeming about it was some of the clever camera work otherwise I would have given it a zero. I think it was trying to be too many things at once. It was horribly slow and I had to start doing something else just to stay awake. It was made in 2000 but it plays like some trashy 90s film, it looks a lot older than it is.

• Stuart B

  
  Did anyone like this movie? I doubt it, was recommended to me by a friend who must have been dropped on his head as a child.

• Leigh R

  
  Interestingly great.

• Doctor S

  
  There is much more than meets the eye with this one, I suspect. A complex psychological thriller as sheltered surveillance agent McGregor grows obsessed with troubled serial killer Judd - about the one thing I can safely say is that this is not a story you've already seen a… More
  There is much more than meets the eye with this one, I suspect. A complex psychological thriller as sheltered surveillance agent McGregor grows obsessed with troubled serial killer Judd - about the one thing I can safely say is that this is not a story you've already seen a dozen times before! I can feel myself <i>wanting</i> to like this because the pieces are there - mystery, suspense, voyeurism, intriguing performances, inventive editing & camerawork. However it's just so damn perplexing, I've seen this three times and I still don't understand what it's all about! Apparently the studio execs had a hand in butchering the director's vision which exists somewhere on DVD. I have to give this a passing grade of three stars simply because of the amount of time it has played with my brain instead of being instantly forgettable, such a rare level of engrossment has to be worth something.

• Sunil J

  
  A shitty movie with no imagination and nothing interesting to offer.

• Dimitris S

  
  Fine material gone bad.Look at Hollywood's shadow.The guy who gave us the parade of Priscilla is drenched on another subject,clever as a thought concerning the sympathy of a "watcher" to his victim,yet attention to detail is such a minor element,so what do we… More
  Fine material gone bad.Look at Hollywood's shadow.The guy who gave us the parade of Priscilla is drenched on another subject,clever as a thought concerning the sympathy of a "watcher" to his victim,yet attention to detail is such a minor element,so what do we get?Mediocre film with some well-orchestrated cine-tricks.

• Erin C

  
  Really slow-moving and not very many exciting parts. I didn't even think the acting was good.

• FanGirl B

  
  A stylish and under rated film.

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