Oh boy what a stinker this one is. I saw and enjoyed the first Eye film and enjoyed the Pang brothers Bangkok Dangerous immensely. What happened to those Pang Brothers because there is no way they could have made this heap of crap.
The Eye 2 tells the story of a young woman Joey who attempts to commit suicide while on a shopping spree in Thailand and gains the ability to see dead people. Yeah... The whole opening of the film is confusing because we are just thrown into this suicidal situation with no clear idea of what is going. This is eventually remedied afterwards but feels like a footnote more than any sort of twist or development. Basically for the rest of the film we have a half baked maternity drama with the interjection of a few ghost scenes here and there which are also bogged down by laughable melodrama.
We don't go to see these films for a good drama though sometimes we can be pleasantly(Dark Water) surprised. We are here for ghosts and general scenes of creepiness. Will still need a minimum of character development which this film forgets, it attempts to skip straight into powerful drama without putting in any time. While this film has a nice of helping of ghosty scenes most of which amount to nothing special. There is a pair of decent scenes: one in an elevator echoing the first film, and another strange scene at a bus stop involving a strange mother son relationship. If your looking for a good asian horror experience see 3-extremes, Ringu, Ju-on, pretty much anything else. Skip this stinker
2/5 "Pretty much garbage save for a scene or two"
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