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Judd plays a black-widow serial murderer named Joanna, who is systematically seducing and killing men who, in one way or another, are outside the ordinary. (Among her victims is a blind mulimillionaire, played by Patrick Bergin, and a nasty loser portrayed, surprisingly, by Jason Priestley.) McGregor is on board as a British intelligence agent who happens to be following her. Referred to as "the Eye," McGregor's operative is a haunted man abandoned years before by his wife and daughter. His isolation is such that he holds imaginary conversations with the latter, and she advises him to take pity on Joanna and protect her even as she carries on with her monstrous mission.
That's precisely what he does, at a distance, ushering in comparisons to Hitchcock's classics about voyeurism and obsession, particularly Vertigo and Rear Window. (Allusions to Francis Coppola's The Conversation are unavoidable as well.) But despite the great material (the 1980 source novel by Marc Behm was highly praised by The New York Times) and a fascinating cast (including Geneviève Bujold and k.d. lang), Eye of the Beholder bogs down in Stephan Elliott's often thoughtless, obvious direction. Elliott (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) grinds down several members of the cast by insisting on dreary, one-note performances, and he makes a long movie seem even longer by telegraphing story twists and other developments long before they happen. Justice would be served if one could extract Judd and McGregor's appearances here and graft them onto a better movie, but so it goes. --Tom Keogh
| ACTORS: | Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Stephan Elliott |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 28 January, 2000 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Columbia/Tristar Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Full Screen, Dolby |
| TYPE: | Mystery / Suspense |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 043396050525 |
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Behold I think that a lot of people want to be lead along with a catchy sexy story line, and lots of action where stuff is always blowing up. When it comes to a movie with some real substance a lot of people are left in the dust. Look a little deaper into this movie before ranting about how bad it sucks. It seems to me that the people that have left bad reviews seem to be the people that don't seem to get much out of any movie of substance. If you looking for a shallow movie ... much like a lot of the people that posted, don't watch this.
A real let-down from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
I have a slight advantage writing this review as the DVD with the director's commentary is playing in the background. Apparently this was based on 40's style pulp fiction he read while filming Priscilla and decided immediately that it would be his next film.
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>It took 7 years to get the financing, asking for a $20 million budget he ended up with $11 million and financed much of it himself. That alone should put up warning lights.
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>The cast has little to work with. Almost the entire film is made in Montreal in winter and edited to death. There is even an entire scene of Ewan McGregor in drag that is just barely visible if you follow the director's commentary on the DVD version. The film itself is so low budget that he fills in as a double for several characters on several scenes and Ashley Judd's wardrobe was nearly a third of the ENTIRE budget.
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>The premise is that a man called the eye (McGregor) who is some sort of technical spy is so wrapped up in his job that he doesn't even realize his wife has left with his daughter for weeks. She's apparently gone several years and he is still not quite right in the head over it when he is assigned to follow the Ashley Judd character. For some reason he becomes obsessed with her to the point of helping her cover her tracks as a serial murderer.
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>The plot becomes absurd as his obsession deepens and the police begin to catch up with her. When he reveals himself and she betrays him it is almost as if the writer and director didn't know what to do and the movie just ends leaving nothing resolved and no questions answered.
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>Beholder is about obsession and loss and the slow loss of reason and the ability to see beyond what is right in front of you. It is a spiral into a strange psychosis shared by 2 people as seen from the opposing ends of a spyglass.
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>If you are into film noir and would like to try something diffent than the usual popcorn thriller this is an ok movie. If you just want entertainment without having to think about what is or isn't happening then don't get this, it definetly won't appeal to you.
BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
Is it just me or do you hust want to strangle Ashley Judd's character. That is just one of the worst people I ever evr seen on a film. So if that was the meaning behind the character Ashley Judd did a great job. As far as Ewan Mcgregor goes he did an excellent job as the eye.
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>As soon as he begins to track her he falls into a love/obbession with her.he even quits his job so he can countinue to follow her. He even saves her life an occation the best part comes when she is working in a dinner and the cops are on to her. Her teacher even sets her up, but lucky for her eye is there to save her again.
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>The film it's self is some what of a strech, but writer/director Stephan Elliott did come up with a great consept thow. As far as the movie it's self he did a good job with it, not an award winner but good none the less.
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