What happens when you have 6 bucks burning a whole in your pocket? Well, if you were wise, going to see Eye of The Beholder would not be in your plans.
Eye of the Beholder stars Ewan McGregor of Trainspotting and Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace, and Ashley Judd of Kiss the Girls and Double Jeopardy. It costars Patrick Bergin, k.d. lang and Jason Priestley.
The Eye (McGregor) is a British Intelligence agent who is basically not all there, since his wife and daughter left him.
He is sent on a mission to find out why the son of a British official is illegally taking money out of his bank account.
The Eye discovers that the money is being given to a beautiful woman, Joanna Eris (Judd). When she kills the boy and skips out, the chase begins.
The Eye starts to follow her and becomes somewhat of a vague voyeur, watching her every move. His only contact with the outside world is Hillary (Lang).
Hillary is an operator for the intelligence department, who wants to send in the police for Joanna. The Eye will not let her and goes AWOL.
The chase begins when Joanna becomes wise to someone following her and skips town. The Eye, by this time, has a love interest in her, even though all he has done is watch her.
The chase lasts the whole movie, and along the way, some new characters make appearances.
These include the blind millionaire, Alex Leonard (Bergin), who falls for Joanna and wants to marry her; and Gary (Priestley), a druggy desert bum.
He also imagines his daughter by his side during the chase. The question for the rest of the movie is: Will he confront her? And if he does will it be for love, or for her arrest?
Eye of the Beholder is a movie that centers around a big chase that goes through almost every state, including Alaska.
The plot, if any, is weak. It is supposed to make you believe that the Eye is in love with Joanna. But when does this happen?
Instead of concentrating on why he falls in love with her, the movie decides to concentrate on the chase. He hardly says a word in the whole movie, and the line between him watching her for love or duty is a thin one.
McGregor and Judd do the best with what plot there is, but this surely is a dip in their ever-popular careers. k. d. lang is good for her 10 minutes of screen time, but maybe she should stick to music. Bergin and Priestley are average in nontypecast roles.
The only good thing about the film is that some of the high-tech equipment that the Eye uses and the fact that Jason “Brandon Walsh” Priestley gets the “crap” kicked out of him.
The final analysis is two glances at the watch, a good number of people getting up and leaving, and regret for not buying that six pack instead.
