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Lots of fabulous style...little substance. The acting in this film is very good. The cinematography and sets and costumes are fabulous. But the most important aspects...such as writing and plot, are pitiful. A cliched and boring tale that we've all heard and seen countless times before. At times pure style and a familiar tale can be simply fun. But in the case of Moulin Rouge, the use of modern music and lines out of context make it nauseating. Seeing Ewan spout out U2's Pride "In the name of love..." to Nicole Kidman was sickening. Obviously many people disagree with me, which is fine. But for my tastes, this film was vulgar filth. I apparently need to write more for this to take up ten lines so...that should about do it.

First, the good parts. The film is entertaining with some good pirate action sequences and Johnny Depp does a fabulous job. For a Hollywood pirate action film it isn't too shabby at all.

But...that being said there is very little extraordinary about it. Instead it is simply average. The skeleton crew is not very menacing at all - so why did they have to be skeletons? The movie would have worked better with another 'plot' without the curse and just focusing on actual human pirates.

The plot is predictable and full of holes. The film could've ended LONG before it did. Most all the roles were cardboard cut outs. There is the handsome hero that is willing to stick his neck out for the girl especially because he isn't encumbered by any societal status. There is the rich suitor that is stuck up and walks so straight and narrowly that he is more robotic than human and thus obviously not the man for the heroine. And finally the heroine that despite living in the past is somehow endowed with all sorts of concepts of the independent modern woman.

I had heard from various sources including reviews on Aintitcoolnews.com that this was a great horror film to see. Instead I found it rather average overall. The visuals in the film are stupendous and possibly the best point of the film. The plot is about a blind woman who receives a cornea transplant and begins to see dead people and shadowy figures who escourt the dead away (presumably to the afterlife). After many scenes that seem to drag on a bit a 'twist' comes in when the woman discovers that the woman who the eye once belonged to had similar visions. She then goes with her doctor (of course this has to be the requisite cookie cutter love interest)to discover who this woman was and how to deal or stop the ghostly visions. There are a few 'jump' moments but nothing terribly scary. As with a similar film I was hugely disappointed with, Ringu, The Eye has a plot that sounded really interesting but then went nowhere that hasn't been visited or explored before. The two films really are much alike and I was disappointed in each after all the hype I had heard.