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Eye for an Eye (1996)
23 out of 25 people found the following comment useful :-
Revenge-movie with a sinister edge!, 6 luglio 2006
Author: cal_ripley999
Karen is a normal woman living a normal upper class life with her husband and her two daughters until one day she calls home on her cell phone, and Julie (her 17 year old daughter) answers. Julie is preparing for her sister Megan's 6th birthday at the time of the call, and Karen is still talking to her when someone suddenly breaks into the house and attacks Julie. Trying to get another cell phone in order to call the police for help, Karen rushes home as fast as she can, and is devastated by what has happened. Julie was raped and murdered. After Julie's killer, Robert Doob,a supermarket deliveryman is unfairly released. Karen takes on a somewhat different perspective on life. She devotes her life to hunt down the man who killed her daughter and in order to find him, Karen has to descend into a world she never knew existed. EYE FOR AN EYE is a very dark film about obsession and revenge and the price everybody involved has to pay. It's not the kind of film that tries to deliver a vision of hope, but rather a sinister world of cynicism. The only escape for Karen (and everybody else) seems to be the kind of love Karen shows for her daughter Megan, her husband and her friends.
11 out of 15 people found the following comment useful :-
Make sure you have a Strong Stomach for this rape scene., 1 ottobre 2007
Author: dbkari da United States
This movie has been reviewed into overkill by many others on this board, so I will spare you another home-viewer's two thumbs down. However I would like to state that I am EXTREMELY surprised that no one has commented about the actual rape scene itself. I can remember watching this as a kid on Lifetime, and years later still remembering that scene to a chilling degree. In most cases for rape scenes, (at least the ones aired on television) they only get from the waist up in the shot. In this particular scene, the camera is aimed straight ahead at the rapist in a sitting position on the floor with the young girl laying out in front of him. Although there is no nudity involved, the scene is VERY graphic in nature. I don't know how in the world they got that girl to play out the scene so well, but I could actually feel her pain, as depicted in her face and screaming from being ripped apart. It was enough make me sick my stomach then as a child, and now as an adult.
10 out of 15 people found the following comment useful :-
The 'Flying Nun' Goes 'Death Wish', 13 dicembre 2007
Author: ccthemovieman-1 da Lockport, NY, United States
Before the hit television show "24," Keifer Sutherland played mostly despicable, evil characters. That's what he does in this film, as "Robert Doob," a low-life who rapes and kills Sally Field's daughter and then is unfairly released by the courts. Sally, playing "Karen McCann," goes after justice.
Almost everyone loves a revenge story and that, of course, is what this movie is, pure and simple: kind of a female "Death Wish."
As for the characters, Sutherland is "over the top" with his guy - way, way past despicable, so ridiculously bad and evil you might even laugh.
For those who picture Sally Field as "The Flying Nun," this movie will be a shock. She is anything but the sweet, wholesome-looking girl she appeared to be in so many of her films when she was younger.....or even the new TV commercials of today. Even though she has shown she can be very foul- mouthed ('m talking 'real life'), somehow seeing her portrayed here as a vigilante, doesn't ring up. Charles Bronson, yes; Sally Field, uh.....no.
Be warned: this is a tough movie in spots, especially in the beginning. It is very similar to the opening in "Death Wish," and is not for the squeamish.
This isn't a bad movie. It is extremely manipulative and has a bunch of plot holes, but if you love revenge films and don't care about particularly intelligent scripts (although the mad-as-hell mom isn't stupid in here), you can just add this one to your library. It serves its purpose of entertaining.
10 out of 18 people found the following comment useful :-
Sally reigns as the "Queen of Intense!" Excellent, gripping, moving, 12 giugno 2005
Author: sharonawit55 da United States
If you like Sally Field, you'll love this movie because she does what Sally does best . . . intense drama! I think she should have won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Karen, the horrified, devastated, angry, Mom/wife whose beautiful teen-age daughter was brutally raped & murdered by a wacko delivering groceries! She was every bit as good as she was in "Norma Rae" and "Places in the Heart"! Some say the movie was not realistic . . obviously you've never been poor or lived in bad neighborhoods, because this kind of stuff happens everyday! The way the justice system works was very realistic also. Gee, let me throw out the name O.J. Simpson! . . I rest my case! Granted the movie was very graphic but so is violent crime in real life! It was very realistic! I cried and grieved (having lost a loved one to violent crime myself) and was angry and revengeful right along with her. I wanted to reach thru the screen and strangle Robert Doob (Kiefer Sutherland, who should of won a best supporting actor award) the cocky, cold, malicious killer, who had no respect for human life and thought he was above the law! I hated him! And I would have done exactly what Sally Fields did if that was my only recourse get justice done! He was clever but she outsmarted him at his own game and did it within the law! This movie was so moving, I was an emotional wreck at the end just like Sally was! I thought the whole cast did a very good job and that the movie was underrated because of it's content. Not everyone wants to watch something so intense. After a hard day at work, I prefer to sit down to something lighthearted like comedy but this one was just to good to pass up!
3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
Telling it like it is..., 14 settembre 2001
Author: catknsn
...seems to have enraged some viewers of this film. The bad guy is really bad. Guess what, they're like that in the real world too. There are plenty of bad guys out there who have no redeeming qualities and do laugh at the system, assuming it will never be able to really punish them. I found this movie very believable and thought the acting was terrific and the climax very satisfying. It was nice to see something come out of Hollywood that wasn't skewed in perspective by the left coast that produced it. Anybody who thinks Robert Doob as a character is too one-dimensional to be believable has never met a violent criminal in the flesh.
2 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
Sutherland is magnificent in this, 18 febbraio 2007
Author: johnkennethisaac da Canada
In my opinion this is one of Keifer Sutherlands best and underrated roles.He plays a terrific villain here ,so much it makes me wonder why he does not do more roles like this.He is so convincing and his stage presence is immpecable.The movie itself didn't do an awful lot for me but again Sutherland is the real star here .Another role he played similar to this was Truth and consequences New Mexico .He looks exactly like he does in this and plays a perfect bad guy.I have always claaified Sutherland with actors like Ray Liota and Micheal Keaton because they are amazing actors who don't get the right roles.They all play spectacular villains and for some reason they never do enough of them.This movie is great in the way it highlights Sutherlands best features as a actor and as a character you love to hate.
7 out of 14 people found the following comment useful :-
Flawed but entertaining., 19 maggio 2004
Author: Scott LeBrun da Winnipeg, Canada
Karen McCann (Sally Field), a working mom, has her world utterly shattered when Robert Doob (Kiefer Sutherland), a delivery man, savagely rapes and murders her teenage daughter and then manages to avoid justice. Karen becomes obsessed with making him pay for what he did.
Enjoyable but relentlessly manipulative thriller, based on a novel by Erika Holzer, did not just push my buttons but hammer away at them with a passion. Doob is such an evil, remorseless, conniving monster it is IMPOSSIBLE to watch the movie and not utterly despise him.
Basically, it's another urban vigilante epic made in the tradition of films like "Death Wish", except with a female lead. It exploits the frustration that all of us decent folk have with our often worthless justice systems, which often protect the criminals far more than the victims. There are few things more enraging than "legal technicalities".
Well cast right down the line, with good work by Field, Ed Harris (as the husband whom Karen alienates with her single-minded mission), Joe Mantegna, Philip Baker Hall, Keith David, and Charlayne Woodard. Sutherland is fine even if there's only one way for him to play his character.
No matter what, the film certainly moves well. These 102 minutes almost fly by.
7/10
0 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :-
Predictable revenge flick...., 31 dicembre 2007
Author: merklekranz da United States
One or two minor surprises cannot overcome the utter predictability of "Eye For An Eye". With this cast there was tremendous potential that for the most part remains unrealized. The script is so by the books that "I've seen all this before" thoughts quickly surface. Kiefer Sutherland really remains in the background for most of the film. If his character had been better developed, and less dialog between Sally Field and Ed Harris the movie would have benefited. Philip Baker Hall appears to be fine tuning his character for "Hard Eight", and really has little bearing on the outcome. If you can overcome the familiarity of the script give this a try. - MERK
2 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
s ss ssorry...., 12 ottobre 2006
Author: coreyno1 da United Kingdom
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
Karen Mcann is organising her daughters birthday party. living a normal life with her husband and two children, she enjoys a simple and happy life. tragedy strikes when Jack Bauer sexually assaults and murders her eldest daughter Julie. unable to cope with the tragedy, Karen attends a self help group and tries to come to terms with the unruly justice that was served when the killer was set free after the farce of a trial.
within the group, their are vigilantes who help the grieving parents. Karen seeks their help and decides to take justice into her own hands.
the calibre of the cast is amazing. Mantegna, Harris, Baker-Hall, David and Sutherland. and with a director such as John Schlesinger, this should have been a drama of high quality and tension.
but what we have here is a farcical film, which makes the subject very laughable and sometimes very offensive.
the script is awful and the actors involved seem to have no motivation at all. Sally Field is the worse offender of all. plying a parent who has lost her daughter to this terrible crime, she never ever shows the emotion that on would expect. mainly through the film, she is all smiles and sparkly eyes, and this takes the films story right out of the back door and dumps it in the waste. Harris looks very bored in his role and is given very little to do, and wastes his time in this drivel.
some of the worst parts of this movie are:
when the aunt slips on the toy truck and has Karen in fits of laughter in the toilet.
when Karen attacks a man in the car park for no reason.
the script. it stinks pure and simple.
the only redeeming thing about this is Kiefer Sutherland. hardly in the film, he plays a very convincing villain and makes the movie....just.
the ending is very predictable, and once Mantegna gives away a critical law lesson to Field, you just know what is going to happen.
obviously inspired by the much superior 'death wish' this is a film that should be seen, but only to see just how bad prolific actors can be.
this would have been a one for me, but Sutherland gives it an extra point.
really bad and offensive. and unintentionally funny in parts.
6 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :-
Gripping, 2 febbraio 2004
Author: bctxcoll da Chico, California
This movie was very gripping. Karen McCann's (Sally Field) daughter gets brutally murdered, and the legal system is helpless on putting the murderer away. Karen decides to take the law into her own hands to avenge her daughter's killer, and her husband is trying to stop her. Overall if you want to know the ending you will have to watch the movie.
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