Review of Blink

Blink (1993)
6/10
I look like my mother.....
8 April 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Emma is a girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years.

A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later.

One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs.

Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered, she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her....

It's not a surprise that this didn't make much of an impact when released. These sort of thrillers were released every other month in the nineties, bu the inclusion of eye surgery is surely a novelty.

It is, but thats where all the novel ideas end.

We have Aiden Quinn, the lead detective, and guess who he ends up with?

Stowe has a guide dog, guess what happens to it?

And so on and so on.

There is a little bit of a twist come the end, but it doesn't really matter, all the blanks are filled in and it doesn't really bother the grey matter.

Stowe is good in her role, and it has to be her best performance, its a shame she never really picked up better scripts, could she really has screen presence.

See it if you like thrillers, you don't expect to be surprised too much...
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