Unsatisfying. When this was all over, this was the word that stuck in my head. I was left unsatisfied. I liked the premise of the story. A woman blind since a childhood accident regains her sight after eye surgery and can suddenly see the world and all its colours again - and she sees her husband for the first time. While they both seem overjoyed at first, Gina regaining her sight turned out not to be the blessing both apparently thought it would be. Her husband James seemed a little lost because Gina was no longer completely dependent on him, and Gina apparently developed a need to explore what you might call her "wild side." The tensions that developed between the two of them, along with the deterioration of her eyesight as a result of problems with her eye drops, became the engine that pushed this forward.
It wasn't a bad movie. I wouldn't call it "suspenseful." Not at all to be perfectly honest. There was enough uncertainty involved to keep me watching. There were moments when the movie seemed to veer into unnecessary sexual territory that didn't really add very much to the basic story. It seemed included simply to titillate for no reason. I thought Blake Lively and Jason Clarke were fine as Gina and James. Director Marc Forster effectively used camerawork to simulate Gina's newfound but imperfect sight as it gradually came back to her. I could have done without the kind of strange and - again - unnecessary and minor subplot around the dog. But my main concern with this was simply that in the end everything seemed to just be left hanging with no real resolution to exactly what had been happening. The ending left me kind of cold and all I said to my wife as it closed was "that was a strange way to end this movie."
Strange it was. It had some decent aspects to it and an interesting storyline, but it just seemed to me that so much more could have been done with it. (4/10)
It wasn't a bad movie. I wouldn't call it "suspenseful." Not at all to be perfectly honest. There was enough uncertainty involved to keep me watching. There were moments when the movie seemed to veer into unnecessary sexual territory that didn't really add very much to the basic story. It seemed included simply to titillate for no reason. I thought Blake Lively and Jason Clarke were fine as Gina and James. Director Marc Forster effectively used camerawork to simulate Gina's newfound but imperfect sight as it gradually came back to her. I could have done without the kind of strange and - again - unnecessary and minor subplot around the dog. But my main concern with this was simply that in the end everything seemed to just be left hanging with no real resolution to exactly what had been happening. The ending left me kind of cold and all I said to my wife as it closed was "that was a strange way to end this movie."
Strange it was. It had some decent aspects to it and an interesting storyline, but it just seemed to me that so much more could have been done with it. (4/10)